[FFmpeg-user] ffprobe bug in 'interlaced_frame'?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am So., 26. Jan. 2020 um 21:19 Uhr schrieb Mark Filipak
<markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com>:

> On 01/26/2020 03:03 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Am So., 26. Jan. 2020 um 20:51 Uhr schrieb Mark Filipak
> > <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> For soft telecined videos, all frames have
> >> 'progressive_frame' = 1
> >
> > I may miss something but since FFmpeg does not "support" soft-telecine
> > why should there be an interlaced frame?
>
> Yes, ffmpeg does not make soft telecined streams. However, the soft
> telecined videos are inputs, not outputs.

I don't think FFmpeg "supports" soft-telecined input streams.
At least not in the way once opon a time defined in an ancient NTSC
standard...

Carl Eugen