[MPlayer-users] Re: H264 HDTV streams can't be watched

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi,

(answering my own question)

> Nico Sabbi <nicola_sabbi <at> fastwebnet.it> writes:
> > Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > >
> > >Can you reproduce the problem with the sample I provided on
> > >incoming/GrayH264.ts?
> > yes, but unfortunately I don't know how to fix it
> 
> Can anybody confirm that libavcodec is not yet able to decode it and that
> the same problem arises when viewing Pro7HD via satellite, or did I simply
> record garbage because of my hardware/software/provider/whatever?

Using elecard AVC Plugin I found out that the sample can be played and is
not just garbage. I think content is interlaced and cannot be decoded using
libavcodec.

On the codec status page, FFmpeg H.264 is listed as working. Perhaps it
should be mentioned in "comments" that it doesn't support interlaced content.

Is it correct that any DVB stream using AVC contains interlaced frames and
therefore can't be watched with mplayer?

Carl Eugen Hoyos