faq: explain about new streams, probesize and analyzeduration.

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Nicolas George 13 years ago
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@end example
@section Why does FFmpeg not see the subtitles in my VOB file?
VOB and a few other formats do not have a global header that describes
everything present in the file. Instead, applications are supposed to scan
the file to see what it contains. Since VOB files are frequently large, only
the beginning is scanned. If the subtitles happen only later in the file,
they will not be initally detected.
Some applications, including the @code{ffmpeg} command-line tool, can only
work with streams that were detected during the initial scan; streams that
are detected later are ignored.
The size of the initial scan is controlled by two options: @code{probesize}
(default ~5 Mo) and @code{analyzeduration} (default 5,000,000 µs = 5 s). For
the subtitle stream to be detected, both values must be large enough.
@chapter Development
@section Are there examples illustrating how to use the FFmpeg libraries, particularly libavcodec and libavformat?

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