[FFmpeg-user] Timestamp for variable frame rate (VFR ) video

[Wolfgang Hugemann]

I have a WhatsApp video which is definitively VFR, as can be told from
the content (a passenger car at constant speed) and is reported by the
new vfrdet filter.

I would like to display a timecode in each frame, derived from the frame
metadata:

"drawtext=text=%%{pts}"
yields wrong results, as it not much more than a frame counter, I guess.

So it should probably be something like

"drawtext=%%{metadata\\:???}

but what exactly?

Wolfgang Hugemann

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