Gstreamer and MPEG TS Constant Bit Rate

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 18:00 -0400, David Schleef wrote:
 
> > I heard there is something called MPEG4-TS which can give a 
> > constant bit rate but I don't know if that is supported by
> > gstreamer.Does anyone know?
> > 
> > I have an application that requires constant bitrate and
> > the input to the gstreamer (an AXIS IP camera) isn't
> > quite giving me a constant bitrate
> 
> If you want convert a variable bit rate stream to a constant bit rate
> stream, you have to reencode.

Or maybe it would be possible to just add padding, if the original
stream is "fairly constant" and can be configured to encode to slightly
less than required? (Not that we support that either at the moment, as
far as I know)

Cheers
 -Tim