On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:32:10 +0200 21na...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > > I would like to know why the tag “DURATION” in Matroska files (.mkv) is > a necessity? Even mkvmerge lets the choice to use it or not with > “--enable-durations”, in addition it is written “Write durations for all > blocks. This will increase file size and does not offer any additional > value for players at the moment.” (source > https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/mkvmerge.html#d4e535). > > Possibly linked to > http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=31852540d4fba0c4e8a16d0b3ddff08fc98e48fd
As far as I'm aware, the linked commit does not do the same thing as the mkvmerge option you pointed out. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel