[MPlayer-users] BBC H264 transmissions

[Sebastian Krämer]

Koef wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:50:22AM -0700, RC wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 12 May 2006 23:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
>>Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>But the first error (and you should always look at the first error
>>>first), is [h264 @ 0x8716308]interlacing is not supported, picture
>>>will probably be garbage
>>
>>Yes, that would be a very informative message...  if I was getting it. 
>>Looks like that message was added after Apr 25.
> 
> 
> Indeed I am getting the "interlacing is not supported" message too now with
> MPlayer dev-CVS-060513-10:34-3.4.6. It also no longer crashes. Picture is
> garbage as expected, though the BBC logo is briefly visible. Inevitable
> question of course if interlacing/MBAFF support is in the pipeline for
> ffmpeg's H.264 decoder :)
> 

There was a message on x264-devel from Loïc Le Loarer saying he wanted 
to implement interlaced encoding in x264 and *maybe* interlaced decoding 
to ffmpeg:

 > If I have the time, I'll also try to add support in FFmpeg to decode
 > the interlaced content produced by x264 with my patches.


Sebastian