unable to play ts file.

[zeefreak]

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.

[VLC_help]

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

[zeefreak]

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.

[zeefreak]

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?

[VLC_help]

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.

[zeefreak]

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 . . .

[VLC_help]

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.

[zeefreak]

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