[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg + X264 questions

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, David Shirley wrote:

> Do you have the refering link to that patch?

http://students.washington.edu/lorenm/src/x264/x264_interlaced.843.diff

> Also I found that if I tell mplayer to use kerndeint on my H264 source
> then the playback is fine.
>
> Not know much about how interlacing is done (Flags or otherwise) is it
> possible that ffmpeg/x264 isn't putting "this file is interlaced" flag
> into the file? and Thus mplayer/mythtv isn't using any de-interlacing
> method?

MPlayer does not automatically deinterlace even if it does know that the 
video is interlaced.

--Loren Merritt