AVCodecContext.time_base

This is the fundamental unit of time (in seconds) in terms of which frame timestamps are represented. For fixed-fps content, timebase should be 1/framerate and timestamp increments should be identically 1. This often, but not always is the inverse of the frame rate or field rate for video. 1/time_base is not the average frame rate if the frame rate is not constant.

Like containers, elementary streams also can store timestamps, 1/time_base is the unit in which these timestamps are specified. As example of such codec time base see ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001(E) vop_time_increment_resolution and fixed_vop_rate (fixed_vop_rate == 0 implies that it is different from the framerate)

- encoding: MUST be set by user. - decoding: the use of this field for decoding is deprecated. Use framerate instead.

struct AVCodecContext
AVRational time_base;

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