[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Write fiel atom independent of other Video Sample Description Extensions

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

On Monday 04 February 2013 11:04:30 am Tim Nicholson wrote:
> On 02/02/13 10:35, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I may miss something but I don't see why asp or h264 video cannot contain
> > field handling information.
> >
> > As a side-effect, this fixes ticket #2202.

> I'm not sure about asp or h264, but writing this atom for all codecs if
> interlace information is set will add it to things like DNX, which does
> not have it set in "genuine" files.

I finally found an apple.com encoded h264 mov file with a fiel atom;-)

Regarding the AVID-based codecs: We currently write the pasp atom for 
them which is wrong I guess, does the additional atom break playback?

> A lower impact approach that would still fix #2202 would be to simply
> bump it to the end of the "else if" set.

(I wish I hadn't mentioned 2202 which is only partly related.)

That wouldn't fix the original intend which was to support interlace 
information with huffyuv and ffvhuff in mov.

Carl Eugen