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

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:36:37PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> VFR sound strange to me, are you sure it is a good idea?

Yes it is absolutely correct. Most content is VFR. For example, mixed
telecine, 30p, and 60i ntsc broadcasts, animation, ... CFR is really
only used for films and for tv shows produced on exactly one medium
(either all-video or all-film).

Rich