[Ffmpeg-devel] [BUG] MPEG-4 artifacts, possibly demuxer-related

Diego Biurrun diego
Tue Jan 31 02:11:56 CET 2006


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:30:07PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:04:22PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Hey, I stumbled across another MPEG-4 file that shows artifacts:
> > 
> > ftp://sandman.homedns.org/diego/ffmpeg/XviD_with_3_AAC-HE_audio_streams.avi
> > 
> > I've tested with CVS MPlayer, CVS ffplay and MPlayer 1.0pre7try2.
> > Interestingly xine CVS and vlc 0.8.4 play the file fine.  This indicates
> > a demuxer problem, but it would be present in both the MPlayer and the
> > libavformat demuxer.  The AVI file is an ODML AVI file.
> 
> the file can be played correctly with lavf if you apply:
> 
> @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@
>                      if (st->codec->codec_id == CODEC_ID_XAN_WC4)
>                          xan_video = 1;
>                      st->need_parsing = 2; //only parse headers dont do slower repacketization, this is needed to get the pict type which is needed for generating correct pts
> +                    st->need_parsing = 1;
>  //                    url_fskip(pb, size - 5 * 4);
>                      break;
>                  case CODEC_TYPE_AUDIO:
> 
> to avidec.c
> 
> as far as i can see this AVI file has _many_ video frames in each chunk, sick
> how can a person be capable of using a text editor (and writing software) and
> at the same time be such a complete idiot writing a program generating so
> broken avi files ...

FWIW, both xine and vlc handle the sample trouble-free.  Are you going
to apply the patch?

Diego





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