[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix i420 rawvideo in MOV

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 17 December 2004 12:18, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Reza Jelveh writes:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > The following one-liner from Reza Jelveh fixes
> >
> > ...
> >
> > i think rxt was right when he said that we should check if thats
> > actually a common problem just a single case. theres only 3 other
> > possibilities to fix this issue. one is patch qt dlls. the other is to
> > patch the .mov(the right way) and the last was another possibility thats
> > wrong anyway.
>
> Patching the QT DLLs is not an option, they are not involved in
> playing that file.
>
> How do you suggest patching the MOV file to make it playable?
>
> > so the question remains is it worth applying that garbage? or was that
> > just an exception?
>
> According to Tuuka Toivonen, the bug reporter this is common in files
> created by Broadcast 2000.
>

I think the root of the problem is that the windows yv12 (at least in directx) 
has the u and v planes swapped compared to the xv yv12. Does anyone
know how raw yv12/i420 is handled in other container formats?

Sascha