[theora-dev] A/V sync in Theora

[David Kuehling]

Hi,

I've been thinking about how a Theora encoder could be integrated into
mencoder or transcode and I'm not sure whether I understand the A/V sync
strategy of Theora/Vorbis correctly.  

When transcoding from some video format (ie MPEG2 or DivX), at least
some images of the video stream will have time stamps, as well as the
fragments of the audio stream.  Or at least time stamps can be generated
somehow (AVI is said to be somewhat weird...).  

The player would compare those time stamps to get the A-V delay and
adjust playback speed accordingly to not let audio and video drift too
much.  

What I do not understand is, how I could preserve timestamps when
encoding to Theora/Vorbis without dropping frames or resample audio.
>From what I know from Mplayer's Ogg demuxer, Theora's granulepos can
only represent multiples of the frametime.  Vorbis's granulepos is
specified in units of audio samples.

Is ist valid for Vorbis packets to drift the granulepos to compensate
for A/V sync?  That would mean that granulepos does not represent the
number of actually played samples any more.  Seems like an ugly hack.

Any other ideas?

David

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