[MEncoder-users] Adding harddup as an afterthought?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:46:34AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse at ilyaz.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have several video files encoded with
> >
> >   set video_filter=-ofps 24000/1001 -vf pullup,softskip
> >
> > As I discovered, my hardware player (Philips DVP5982) does not like
> > them (it shows a mess for a frame or two about the time the
> > "duplicated-as-0" frame is added).  When doing
> >
> >   set video_filter=-ofps 24000/1001 -vf pullup,softskip,harddup
> >
> > everything is fine.  Is there a possibility to "add harddup" to an avi
> > file WITHOUT re-encoding?  Or at least with re-encoding only chunks
> > where duplicated-as-0 frames are nearby?
> 
> no

In principle you could drop-in zero-change frames, but the presence of
B frames would make it a lot more complicated. Basically unless you
want to do a lot of coding, the answer is no.

Rich