[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Communicate pulldown flags to clients to fix VC-1 playback with pulldown content

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Alexandre Colucci <alexandre <at> elgato.com> writes:

> I can reproduce this issue with VLC 1.1.8 on MacOSX and MPlayerX 1.0.2 for
> MacOSX (http://mplayerx.org/). I am pretty sure that this issue can be
> reproduced on Windows and Linux.

I can reproduce the issue - thank you for working on it!

> When you play back the sample file in VLC 1.1.8 or MPlayerX 1.0.2 on MacOSX
> 10.6.7, you will notice that the playback is extremely jerky (I can provide a
> 100MB file if needed instead of the 10MB).

The issue is known and we have a sample. (Thank you for the additional one you
uploaded!)

> Also to fix this issue, the developers of VLC and MPlayerX should read the
> pulldown flags - apparently they currently ignore them.

This was my question: I was assuming you were able to test your patch on any
software;-)

Carl Eugen