[FFmpeg-user] 420p out from ffmpeg becomes 420i in to x264

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hi Tim,

On 05/26/2011 12:01 AM, Tim Nicholson wrote:
> On 17/05/11 03:57, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 5/15/11 3:29 PM, sean darcy wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use ffmpeg to pipe a stream to x264. Both ffmpeg and x264
>>> from git today.
>>>
>>>   I'm deinterlacing the input with yadif, piped output is yuv4mpeg. And
>>> ffmpeg thinks is generating yuv420p.
>>>
>>> But x264 is seeing the piped stream as interlaced. I thought yuv4mpeg
>>> had a header describing the stream. Is that so? If so, is the problem
>>> here that ffmpeg is not writing the header correctly, x264 is not
>>> reading it correctly, or have I screwed up something?
>>>
>>> sean
>>>
>>> + ffmpeg -i JulyPlay1990.avi -an -vf yadif=1:0,hqdn3d -r 60000/1001
>>> -pix_fmt yuv420p -f yuv4mpegpipe -
>>> + x264 --demuxer y4m --preset slower --tune film --bitrate 1200 -o
>>> out3.m4v -
>>
>> I suggest you use ffmpeg directly instead of piping.
>>
> 
> Can you use ffmpeg natively yet for creating blu-ray compatible streams?
> 
> That was the problem I had, and was forced into the piping mode.
> ISTR that x264 uses a "cod" progressive mode anyway for 25 where it
> creates a progressive stream but flags it interlaced as 25p is not
> avalid part of BD the spec.

That should be easy to add mappings for the necessary options.
That would create a .h264 file which would be compatible.

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