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

[ChristianHJW]

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 ?
> Reason i'm asking is, how will the XviD DShow filter ( and FFDshow ) 
> behave if they'd meet an XviD stream including b-frames, but all frames 
> were simply rendered in coding order ( no dummy frames ) ?
> Thanks for clarifying 
> Christian

GomGom took the time to answer all my questions in detail, thanks 
Edouard. I posted the IRC log to our ML :
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel/471
and robux4 answered to it here :
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel/473

Regards

Christian