[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/7] CrystalHD: Bring in h.264 parser to establish picture type.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 26 Mar 2011, at 18:50, Philip Langdale <philipl at overt.org> wrote:

> As the hardware is unreliable, we will have to use the h.264 parser
> to identify whether an input picture is a field or a frame. This
> change loads the parser and extracts the picture type.

I think there is a way to tell the parser not to do any parsing (in particular, not search for start codes) but only parse. Libavcodec/avidec.c uses it like that.