[FFmpeg-devel] mpegvideo : interlaced_frame with picture_structure == PICT_FRAME

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:17:32PM -0500, Vanista Herion wrote:
> Some MPEG 2 video will give bad interlacing information in AVFrame. If the
> parameters are used by a deinterlace filter such as yadif, frames will be
> processed needlessly and impair the quality.
> 
> By reviewing the code in mpegvideo.c which sets the interlaced_frame
> and top_field_first, I noticed that picture_structure is not considered
> whereas it probably supersedes everything else. The H.262 specification is
> not very clear on that but in the case of this sample, the stream is
> definitely progressive, picture_structure is equal to 3 (Frame picture) and
> top_field_first alternates true and false.
> 
> The result is that frames come out reported as tff, bff and progressive,
> cycling at every frame.
> I propose a simple patch to set interlaced_frame to false when
> picture_structure is equal to PICT_FRAME.

fixed differently, that is by detecting telecined content in yadif

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