On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Moritz Barsnick <barsn...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 15:59:04 +0100, Robert Krüger wrote: > > > the mp4 muxer currently does not accept pcm in mp4. However, there are > > several cameras out there, that produce such files. Would it be possible > to > > support this option when using -strict -2? > > If the cameras are doing it wrong, why would *you* want to do so as > well? > > > This way a user could create non-spec-conformant files but it would > > not happen, when not explicitly overriding the default. Is this not > > the way this is handled in other places? > > I can't speak for the MP4 standard, but if it's not defined, ffmpeg > would have to define a (non-spec-conformant) way to do this, or imitate > some other format, like that of your camera. > > But again, why would you want to do this? Which client needs this? > > Perhaps the QuickTime (mov) container could be an option for you, it is > very similar to the mp4 container. (mp4 was indeed derived from > QuickTime.) It all depends on what you are trying to achieve. > > you're of course right. I can work with mov instead and that's what I do. I was just asking, if there was an easy fix to not deal with the case that someone rewraps footage, extracting a subclip and not being able to use the same format as the input format. not terribly important, though. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
