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 '92b099daf4b8ef93513e38b43899cb8458a2fde3':
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>
* commit '3e4e2142d246699a1a3a0045ba7124b18bc34d7a':
fate: Convert the paletted output in the brenderpix tests to rgb24
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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>
