[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Tell calling application about PAFF fields

[Jeff Downs]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I tested the PAFF patch with mplayer, and it works well, but A/V sync
> breaks because frame rate has to be doubled for PAFF fields.
> 
> Attached patch is a possibility to solve this problem, please comment.
> 
> Carl Eugen

I was thinking on this as well. I'm guessing mplayer's problem is that the 
demux/parser only pushes out a field, so it delivers x fields / second 
instead of x frames / second?

Another place to potentially fix it is in the 264 parser, making it output 
frames and field pairs instead of frames and fields.  The docs for the 
parser interface aren't clear on which behavior is more correct.
And, you'd still have to deal with unmatched fields (ones that have no 
pair of opposite parity). 

	-Jeff