[XviD-devel] Question about VfW, frame order and Linux

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 15 March 2003 21:55, ChristianHJW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> stupid question of the day, sorry about that, but none of the people i
> did ask could answer, and GomGom wasnt active on IRC :
>
> When using B-frames, as Linux tools like mencoder etc. are not limited
> by the VfW interface ( Vdub is ), in what frame order are they writing
> their AVIs ?
>
> Do they insert dummy frames as placeholders as well, and are writing the
> first b-frame into the same data chunk with the I/P frame ? Or are they
> simply writing the frames in coding order, putting one frame into one
> data chunk, as always ?
mencoder + libavcodec / ffmpeg: coded order, no dummy frames, exactly like the 
MPEG4 standard requires

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Michael