[MPlayer-dev-eng] mp4, vfr and timestamps

[Nico Sabbi]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> ... The comment I've seen in the doom9 forums seemd to be true: You 
> think mp4 is the worst container format on this world and thus you 
> don't want to support it.

it's the second worst: it's a dream come true compared to ogg

>
> vlc plays the file corectly, Windows Media Player plays the file 
> corectly, only mplayer ignores the CTS (composition timestamps).

are you sure? There's code to assign pts in demux_mov.c, although I 
didn't check if it's correct.

>
> On a sidenote, so far, trying to create a truely VFR video file, the 
> only container format that works fine with mplayer is matroska, but 
> since I want to make the video available to others (including those 
> living in the windows world) that isn't really an option. And AVI 
> seems to require hacks for VFR video streams and I don't want to use 
> hacks when we have a container format that supports VFR out of the box 
> (or has it in the specification).
>
> tom


mencoder can't deal correctly with vfr, whatever format you want it to 
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