Hi Katherine! On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Katherine Frances <knfran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marton, thank you very much, this is extremely helpful. > > As Marton mentioned, the `p` refers to Planar, and the absence of `p` (as far as i can tell) suggests Packed - https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/ trunk/pixfmt_8h_source.html Okay, I guess that the output MP4s are actually interlaced, despite the > video stream metadata that MediaInfo reads. Do you think that 'progressive' > is default for libx264 and that's why this metadata property is being added > erroneously? > > Lastly, do you know how I can determine whether the file actually is > interlaced? > > As for interlacement checking, the idet filter works well - https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/#check_interlacement and if enabled in the preferences, QCTools does a really great job at visualising the output of the idet filter. I find it interesting to see the patterns produced by ingested tapes where some sort of deinterlacement occured for certain segments. Or looking at a file that has misleading metadata declaring interlacement (or progressive), but there is no evidence of that when looking at the actual file. -K _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".