[mythtv] fix for MBAFF + spatial direct mode is not implemented

[Steven Ellis]

On Sat, February 9, 2008 12:39 pm, Mircea Marghidanu wrote:
> Well, they did add code to treat the interlaced cases, not just removed
> the printf. The HD streams look good now.

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> Steven Ellis wrote:
>> On Sat, February 9, 2008 2:45 am, mirceam at nervus.org wrote:
>>
>>> I just merged in h264.c to add the interlacing support, and left
>>> everything as it was.
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>>>> Have they fixed the large amount of blocking and artifacting yet?
>>>>
>>
>> No. It just reduces the amount of the error messages, at least with the
>> NZ
>> test transmissions.
>>
>> Steve
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>>
>>
>>>> - Mark.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/8/08, Mircea Marghidanu <mirceam at nervus.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I got the latest mythtv-svn and merged in the changes from the latest
>>>>> ffmpeg libavcodec.
>>>>> They implemented the interlaced decoding for MBAFF.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering what's the difference between the two libavcodec libs
>>>>> (
>>>>> the one in mythtv vs the one in ffmpeg) and why are they 2 separate
>>>>> things?

I'm running ffmpeg/ffplay and mplayer off SVN with the MBAFF + spatial
direct patches on the NZ DTT test transmissions. Whilst the newest release
has improved video quality I still get a lot of additional blocky
artefacts in the interlaced streams.

Steve

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