[FFmpeg-devel] Question about PAFF decoding

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:04:39PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> > @Loren: if you want to give him mine i'd be happy: tjordan at macrosystem.de
> > 
> > Here we go:
> > 
> > with PAFF material a frame seems to be coded in two seperate fields,
> > each with his own NAL start code (00 00 00 01 09 xx). I have seen two
> > consecutive fields of one frame, first with xx=10, second xx=30, so
> > first field has only I slices, the second P-slices. Other streams have
> > 2x the 10 code. Bizarre...
> > 
> > Would PAFF decoding work like decoding two consecutive frames with half
> > height?
> 
> no

to elaborate here, decoding fields is similar to decoding 2 frames with half
height but its not identical you have to add plenty of field specific code
IIRC
when i originally started implementing the h.264 decoder i tried to support
paff/mbaff too, but quickly gave up as there where too many mbaff/paff
specific cases to think about / deal with ...

[...]

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