Interlaced H264

[baldur]

Are there any plans to add support for interlaced H264 video? When I try to play an interlaced H264@MP stream I just get a grey picture with some bits of the fields flickering in the top half of the picture.

[alec_robertson]

Can you play the following: http://web.mit.edu/alecr/www/cwf/trailer-i.mkv ?

It's x264 (interlaced patch) paff encoded video and it plays fine in the latest svn-vlc. If that doesn't work, try "--demux ffmpeg". Failing that, could you post a link or a sample?

Check out this thread also, which deals with mbaff encoded video: viewtopic.php?t=20530

[Guest]

Interesting! It seems that your sample video played in both VLC 0.8.4 and 0.8.5

Anyone have a MBAFF interleaved sample?

[baldur]

I get no video when I try to play that file in VLC 0.8.5
Now here's a sample of my video. http://www.foo.is/~baldur/tsh264.mpg

[alec_robertson]

Hmm, the tsh264.mpg file doesn't play on my system either. vlc --demux ffmpeg gives the following output:

[h264 @ 0x877a398]PAFF interlacing is not implemented
[h264 @ 0x877a398]PAFF interlacing is not implemented
[h264 @ 0x877a398]PAFF interlacing is not implemented
[h264 @ 0x877a398]concealing 612 DC, 612 AC, 612 MV errors

Try posting this to the ffmpeg mailing list: ffmpeg-user@mplayerhq.hu

[DJ]

This is the second or third time I have seen this:

ffmpeg warning: PAFF interlacing is not implemented

I tried looking at the one Alec posted, while it played I could not determine the interlace method. Considering it played in 0.8.4 it seems doubtful it was either of the two interlace methods mentioned here.

I still haven't seen any MBAFF samples.