[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove drop timecode flag

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sun Apr 15 18:03:51 CEST 2007


Hi

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:54:16PM +0200, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:27:55AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> >> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> attached patch removes the drop timecode encoding support
> >>> reasoning is that iam not aware of any use (not even obscure) of this feature
> >> Isn't the timecode wrong if you don't use drop frame timecode for NTSC?
> >>
> >> e.g., the timecode after exactly 1 hour of NTSC video will be
> >> '00:59:56:12', which is short 3 seconds and 18 frames from one hour.  With
> >> drop frame timecode, the timecode after an hour would be '01:00:00:00',
> >> since 108 timecodes would have been skipped over.
> > 
> > timecodes are codec specific
> 
> Read the paper:

this is no paper its a webpage, and i trust the specifications written
by standard comitees much more then a random webpage

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