Re: [FFmpeg-user] retain timecode stream when transcoding v210 to FFV1/MKV

2025-05-06 Thread Christian Sievers via ffmpeg-user
Hi, Thanks everyone for the timecode primers. Yes, these are archival considerations. Ideally, you don’t want to lose any information. This is what the time code tracks typically look like in our archive, using Mediainfo. There’s never more than one, and staff would have noticed if the digiti

Re: [FFmpeg-user] retain timecode stream when transcoding v210 to FFV1/MKV

2025-05-06 Thread Erik Dobberkau
Now, if you need TC, you are either a researcher or a video pro. Why on > earth use Matroska? (I have never seen it except on the pirate bay, and I > have been a video professional for 37 years.) > Lossless FFV1 in MKV is a recommended archival format (not recommended by me, just to be clear..), t

Re: [FFmpeg-user] retain timecode stream when transcoding v210 to FFV1/MKV

2025-05-06 Thread edit 'B
> On 6 May 2025, at 07:49, Kieran O Leary wrote: > > Yes. My understanding of how most timecode tracks are stored during tape > digitisation is that it just stores the first timecode value when you start > capturing. Any discontinuities in the tape (for example timecode resets > when multiple e