[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] mencoder pts, filmdint vfr, timecodedumping

[Nico Sabbi]

Andrew Mahone wrote:

> On 10/26/06, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
>
>> filters are now allowed to open and write to files, and more generally
>> to work in other workspaces than their own
>
>
> Do you mean to say "not allowed"?


not permitted. Filters should only _filter_ their input

> I was not aware of this, and wrote
> this filter intending it to be more of a band-aid than a long term
> solution. Obviously the right way to handle VFR output is to have
> mencoder output files in VFR-capable formats with proper timestamps. I
> had assumed, however, that opening a file would not be a problem, as
> there is already a filter (divtc) that operates in a two-pass mode
> using a logfile.


bleah, it should be fixed. Patch welcome :)
The process of removing crap from mplayer will probably take forever, it 
seems :(