[MPlayer-users] Problems with h.264 and lavf demuxer (paff/mbaff?)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Marco Munderloh <munderl <at> tnt.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> First one is that neither the demuxer nor the h264 decoder 
> skip undecodeable frames until a valid SPS/PPS/IDR arrive 
> but tries to conceal it. This might be a useful feature 
> for some broken streams / incomplete streams and reduces 
> latency in the case of seeking in unindexed files. But for 
> the best user experience I think it should be default to 
> skip frames until the next IDR.

As said, what you request is the default for FFmpeg, 
and I believe I explained how you can get the same 
behaviour from MPlayer.

> Second, and more serious problem is that the decoder gets 
> so much confused from the first additional B slice that it 
> does not decode the following PPS/SPS/IDR correctly but 
> conceals all frames until the second IDR frame.
> This yields, in my case, to 16 broken frames instead of 
> just one.

You are probably right, I did not open a ticket yet 
because I consider this difficult to explain.

> You suggest to report this at the ffmpeg-devel mailing 
> list?

You should if you just wanted to report "mixed field and 
whatever" but for the problem that you analyzed, a ticket 
would be appropriate, a report on ffmpeg-devel not.

Carl Eugen