more verbose r_frame_rate definition

Originally committed as revision 6982 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
18 years ago · e3c97c3be4
parent 1bd29b078c
commit e3c97c3be4
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--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ typedef struct AVStream {
    AVCodecContext *codec; /* codec context */
    /**
     * real base frame rate of the stream.
+     * this is the lowest framerate with which all timestamps can be
+     * represented accurately (its the least common multiple of all
+     * framerates in the stream), Note, this value is just a guess!
     * for example if the timebase is 1/90000 and all frames have either
     * approximately 3600 or 1800 timer ticks then r_frame_rate will be 50/1
     */