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authorNicolas George <nicolas.george@normalesup.org>2012-03-03 15:56:11 +0100
committerNicolas George <nicolas.george@normalesup.org>2012-04-04 15:22:44 +0200
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v4l2: allow to convert monotonic timestamps.
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@@ -520,6 +520,13 @@ supported using @command{-list_formats all} for Video4Linux2 devices.
Some usage examples of the video4linux2 devices with ffmpeg and ffplay:
+The time base for the timestamps is 1 microsecond. Depending on the kernel
+version and configuration, the timestamps may be derived from the real time
+clock (origin at the Unix Epoch) or the monotonic clock (origin usually at
+boot time, unaffected by NTP or manual changes to the clock). The
+@option{-timestamps abs} or @option{-ts abs} option can be used to force
+conversion into the real time clock.
+
Note that if FFmpeg is build with v4l-utils support ("--enable-libv4l2"
option), it will always be used.
@example