[MEncoder-users] Muxing problems (was: mencoder vs ffmpeg)

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:35:49AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:09:11 +0000
> vdmsss <vdm_sss at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > The problem with B-frames is similar.  They are displayed out of
> > > order because mencoder is only designed to output to AVI properly.
> > 
> > displayed by what player? things seems ok with mplayer and vlc... Or  
> > not?
> 
> Pretty much every player other than MPlayer.  VLC displays the problem.

And this is not because MPlayer is better than other players. It's
because MPlayer is buggy and ignoring the timestamps in the file. I
suspect with -correct-pts MPlayer would also mess up rather bad.

Rich