[MEncoder-users] How to detect B frames

[Levente Novák]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 00:30 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:21:32 +0200
> Levente Novák <lnovak at dragon.unideb.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > 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...).
> 
> Still no.  Not at all.

Can you elaborate on this? You must have a source devoid of B-frames,
otherwise you can not use the lavf muxer (it's well in the docs, even
MEncoder spits it out at encoding time).

Levente