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i have a ts file that vlc is trying to play, but instead i get nothing. only a huge log of errors:

ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
main warning: late picture skipped (9571898)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
main warning: late picture skipped (9559068)
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
dts debug: emulated sync word (no sync on following frame): 64582025
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
main warning: late picture skipped (9607729)

stream info tells me that i'm using h264, dts and a52 codecs for streams 0-2.
searching around yields lot of very confusing information, none of which changes anything with this video.

AFAIK stable release doesn't have proper MBAFF support. Nightlies might work better or not.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

thanks. good to know that it is a known issue. i am afraid that i can't really do nightlies at the moment. maybe when i have a little more free time to play with any other issues that might come up.

had some time to play with it tonight. latest nightly has the same problem. have been rummaging the forums, and i see lots of threads on vc-1 and h264, but no resolution on any of them. the only suggestion [that doesn't work] is to check 'skip loop filter' on the x264 video codec. am i missing something?

MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented, if the nightlies complain same thing, there isn't anything you can do, because the support doesn't exist.

sorry. i have no idea what you are talking about. what is mbaff, and how do you know the video i am trying to play is mbaff from the information i have provided you? same goes for spacial direct mode . . .

how do you know the video i am trying to play is mbaff from the information i have provided you?

ffmpeg warning: MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented
(h264@00B1F840)
ffmpeg only gives warnings when it encounters problematic content.

MBAFF is way to encode interlaced H.264/MPEG-4-AVC video.

TS and M2TS support for H.264 is also mostly broken ATM and unless someone fixes it, there isn't way to fix it.

sorry, i had forgot about the log snip in the initial post. thanks much for your help.