[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Optionally pad with silence

[Dan Oscarsson]

tor 2011-03-10 klockan 12:56 +0100 skrev Tobias Diedrich:
> Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> > Does mplayer stop playing the video if audio ends before the video?
> > I thought it was not so - will check when I get home and can test.
> > 
> > You do not need to pad audio stream to get mplayer to play video with
> > silence until audio starts, if audio stream starts after video stream. I
> > have had that working in my patches for a long time.
> 
> Well, the patch is for encoding, not for playing video.
> While you can encode videos with video-audio offset to account for
> the streams not starting at the same time, sometimes it is
> preferrable to have both streams start at the same time and have the
> same length (as far as possible anyway, length-granularity for audio
> codecs will probably make an exact match impossible most of the
> time).

Yes, for encoding it is nice to be able to pad audio stream. Even more
when you want to adjust when audio starts in relation to video.

   Dan