[MPlayer-dev-eng] dwStart and what mencoder generates

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:28:34PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > a file generated with  
> > mencoder ... -ovc copy -oac copy -audio-delay 10 -o test.avi
> > 
> > doesnt look good at all, the packets are not interleaved correctly, they are
> > 10sec appart ...
> 
> Unless I'm mixed up, the avi muxer ignores audio_delay_fix and
> interleaves packets in the order they arrive. Should they be interleaved
> such that the presentation times of the streams are aligned?

their DTS should be approximately aligned, which is pretty much the same,
so yes

if they are not aligned then the AVI is a not (correctly) interleaved AVI
and that should be marked in the header at least otherwise many players will
have problems with the file for large delays

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-- 
Michael