[mythtv] mythencode.pl script

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:34:29AM -0400, Michael J. Pedersen wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:18:46AM -0500, mojo wrote:
> > Pos: 910.4s  24844f (71%)  29fps Trem:   5min 153mb  A-V:-0.068 [910:96]
> > 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> > Pos: 910.8s  24854f (71%)  29fps Trem:   5min 153mb  A-V:-0.068 [910:95]
> > 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> 
> Not sure of the source within MythTV, but I do know this: your file has
> duplicate frames which mencoder will skip, even with the -noskip and
> -pleasedontskipframeseventhoughtheyareduplicategodimbeggingyou flags.
> Very frustrating, and there's not much to be done about it. And if you
> think the number of dupes is bad now, you should have seen what they
> were like in 0.7 (at least 1 per second). Now it's dropped way down (at
> least for me).

There are no duplicate frames in the stream.  That message means that there
was a dropped frame, and mencoder is duplicating the previous frame to
maintain sync.

(I think...it's been some time since I looked at that code, and I'm in no
hurry to look at it again)

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 - mdz