[Ffmpeg-devel] [BUG] MPEG-4 artifacts, possibly demuxer-related

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:04:22PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Hey, I stumbled across another MPEG-4 file that shows artifacts:
> 
> ftp://sandman.homedns.org/diego/ffmpeg/XviD_with_3_AAC-HE_audio_streams.avi
> 
> I've tested with CVS MPlayer, CVS ffplay and MPlayer 1.0pre7try2.
> Interestingly xine CVS and vlc 0.8.4 play the file fine.  This indicates
> a demuxer problem, but it would be present in both the MPlayer and the
> libavformat demuxer.  The AVI file is an ODML AVI file.

the file can be played correctly with lavf if you apply:

@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@
                     if (st->codec->codec_id == CODEC_ID_XAN_WC4)
                         xan_video = 1;
                     st->need_parsing = 2; //only parse headers dont do slower repacketization, this is needed to get the pict type which is needed for generating correct pts
+                    st->need_parsing = 1;
 //                    url_fskip(pb, size - 5 * 4);
                     break;
                 case CODEC_TYPE_AUDIO:

to avidec.c

as far as i can see this AVI file has _many_ video frames in each chunk, sick
how can a person be capable of using a text editor (and writing software) and
at the same time be such a complete idiot writing a program generating so
broken avi files ...

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-- 
Michael