The rational for this is another issue that plex has exposed. When it is
conducting a transcode of video to HLS for streaming, my father noticed
artifacts when played on his GoogleTV (NSZ-GT1). He sent me a test file
and I reproduced it on my device of the same model. It is important to
note that the artifacts were not present when streaming to VLC or QuickTime
Player. I copied the command-line that plex used, and conducted all of the
following tests using FFmpeg git.
Transcode to HLS: artifacts on playback
Transcode to TS: playback is fine
Cat HLS segments into a single TS: playback is fine
Segment single TS file to segments: artifacts on playback
Segment single TS file to segments using Apple's HLS segmenter: playback is
fine
At this point I carefully examined the differences between Apple's HLS
segmenter output and FFmpeg's. Among the considerable differences, I
noticed that the video PES packets always had a 0 length. So I continued:
Transcode to HLS using FFmpeg with 0 length PES packets: playback is fine.
Segment single TS to segments with 0 length PES packets: playback is fine.
All failures mentioned are only on the GTV since it is the only player on
which I could reproduce artifacts. I only tested the GTV, VLC, and
QuickTime Player though, so my test case is limited. I do not know if
other players exhibit this issue.
Since it was useful last time, I have uploaded the test file as
hls_pes_packet_length.m4v along with its associated txt file which contains
the transcode command-line that was used.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Kunhya <kierank@obe.tv>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Fixes conversion of pal8 to rgb formats with alpha.
Updated references for 2 FATE tests which previously encoded fully
transparent images.
Based on a patch by Baptiste Coudurier <baptiste.coudurier@gmail.com>
If 384k is too high for the samplerate, choose the closest
possible
Idea to increase the bitrate from: 46439e1562
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
This causes us to favor RGB8 over PAL8 when FF_LOSS_COLORQUANT is used
It probably makes sense to reinvestigate the exact scoring of pal8 when
our pal8 support improves to be supperior to rgb8
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '92b099daf4':
swscale: support converting YVYU422 pixel format
Conflicts:
libswscale/input.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Improves compatibility with XDCAM HD formats. It has been set for a long time
in ffmbc.
Reviewed-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
Improves rgb -> gray16 conversion
Fixes Ticket3422
The pam and png output files look visually similar, in both cases the
dynamics increase to 0x0 -> 0xfffb.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Extrapolate audio timestamps based on the number of samples demuxed.
Deal with some MXF nastiness involving fractional number of
samples per EditUnit when seeking (the specs handwave this away).
Further fixes from Tomas Härdin.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
