[MEncoder-users] How to detect B frames

[Levente Novák]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:11 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:19:53 -0400
> Gary Mort <gm-enc at saplings.us> wrote:
> 
> > What I'm wondering is if there is a way to analyse the videos and
> > detect if the videos have B frames in them? 
> 
> > I just need some way to determine if the video is a bad candidate for
> > Flash conversion to begin with or not.
> 
> It doesn't matter, at all, whether the SOURCE video has b-frames or not.
> 
> Your problem is elsewhere.

Except of course if he is going to use the lavf muxer in which case it
_does_ matter a lot (i_certify_that...).

Levente