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

[Mark Filipak]

On 01/26/2020 03:50 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 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...

You are confusing soft telecine with hard telecine. Since autumn 1999, 
nearly 100% of all region 1 DVDs are soft telecined, so, of course, 
ffmpeg supports soft-telecined inputs.

> Carl Eugen