[x264-devel] FrameSkip option

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

>  Dear all,
>  I'm trying to encode a sequence of 10seconds at 2 different frame rate
>  say 30fps and 5fps. Using the option -fps in the x264 will lead to 2
>  sequences of same size. What i need is to make the x264 coder drop some
>  frames so it can meet the target frame rate and still be of duration 10s.
>  I know that using the reference software there is the option FrameSkip
>  that does what i need. But what is the equivalent (if any) for the
>  FrameSkip in the x264 codec? somehow i'm not able to find any...

x264 does not drop frames; it does no filtering on the video input at
all, not even color conversion.  As a result, you must do all video
processing in whatever application you are using to serve frames to
x264.

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