[Libav-user] How to create a video stream without IDR slices?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

 <amir.rouhi at ...> writes:

> i have written a code for intra frame extraction out of stream, 
> and the code just work on i slices, IDR slices made some 
> errors with my code.
> BTW ffmpeg by proper vcodec can encode h264.avc. are you 
> sure it cant?

It can if you compiled FFmpeg with support for the external 
library libx264. I just try to explain that since it is an 
external library (not developed in the FFmpeg project), it 
may make sense to ask in a x264 forum.

> I will check intra-refresh for that purpose.

Unfortunately, that will disable all I-frames iiuc.

Carl Eugen