[MPlayer-users] Problems with h.264 and lavf demuxer (paff/mbaff?)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Marco Munderloh <munderl <at> tnt.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> When playing the video using mplayers default demuxer, 
> all is fine.

I played the video you provided with -demuxer mpegts and 
whenever I seek back to the beginning, I see one or two 
broken frames before the first keyframe.

> But if I use the lavf demuxer, the first GOPs are totally
> broken until the next IDR frame arrives.

This is to some degree the expected behaviour, use 
"-lavdopts wait_keyframe" if you don't like it.

> ffmpeg shows the same behavior on transcoding
> as the mplayer lavf demuxer;

I tested the following:
$ ffmpeg -i DVB_testvideo.ts -qscale 2 out.avi
out.avi does not show broken initial frames.
(You can use -flags2 +showall to get the MPlayer 
behaviour, but this apparently is not what you want.)
If it does something else for you, please consider 
reporting it, it would be a bug (possible regression).

All this said, there is a difference between 
mplayer -demuxer mpegts and mplayer -demuxer lavf for 
the given sample but since it is a dvb stream (cut at 
a random position), I don't know if the different 
behaviour can be "fixed".

Carl Eugen