[FFmpeg-devel] Decoding artifacts with some AVCHD files

[Robert Swain]

On 20/03/2008, Gerald Dalley <gerald.dalley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Pascal Massimino
>  <pascal.massimino at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >   Gerald,
>  >
>  >  On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Gerald Dalley <gerald.dalley at gmail.com>
>  >  wrote:
>  >  > http://people.csail.mit.edu/dalleyg/collaboration/avchd/hg10-pf24-clip2.mts
>  >  >
>  >
>  >   they are using field-based interlacing (aka PAFF) , with 2 bframes.
>  >   Their top field for b-slice uses temporal bdirect mode, whereas
>  >   their bottom field in b-slice uses spatial prediction bdirect mode.
>  >   Support for this prediction is incomplete in ffmpeg, hence the artifacts
>  >   you're seing.
>
>
> Life just keeps getting stranger.  Do you have any idea when such
>  support might be completed in ffmpeg?  I'm trying to decide if it's
>  better to press hard on some commercial vendors for a short-term
>  solution or if I should just wait for ffmpeg.

One could pressure some form of commercial entity to set a bounty on
implementing such capability within FFmpeg and look for developers to
do such.

Rob