[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Change default behaviour of scale filter from 'progressive' to 'auto'

[Tim Nicholson]

On 01/05/12 09:26, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:29:47AM +0100, Tim Nicholson wrote:
>> On 30/04/12 14:44, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:15:15AM +0100, Tim Nicholson wrote:
> [...]
>>> I think the patch is correct but until the input interlace flag is
>>> ALOT more reliable i dont think we should apply this as it likely
>>> would worsen the overall results for the end user, 

> [..]

>>
>> I therefore wonder if a better solution at this stage would be to add an
>> additional SWScaler AVOption to enable selecting the default mode.
>> Current users would see no change, and those who need it could simply
>> add the option to their command line and get the results they need in a
>> more elegant and simple manner than described previously.
>>
>> I will try and bone up on the SWScaler API and see what it would take to
>> achieve that if you think that approach might work.
> 
> I think adding more possibly values to the interlace field used in
> libavfilter is better. Its not certain the interlace state is the
> same in the whole filter graph, also other filters may similarly
> need to accurately know the interlacing/progressive state


Is that not what the setfield filter does if used at the start of a
filtergraph? I have already added in the ability to force progressive as
well as the previous tff|bff options. However it doesn't seem to help
the case of auto inserted "scale 0".

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-- 
Tim