Dud rows of pixels with ffmpeg-static

[Carl Fletcher]

On 17/10/11 10:57, Neill Mitchell wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for digging around. That would certainly explain it. I remember
> seeing the brainfart messages last time, but I'm not seeing them this time.
>
> I tried the static ffmpeg again, but saw the dud pixels again. Very odd.
>
> I've just upgraded Ubuntu and it now has ffmpeg 0.7.2, so I'll try that.
> Failing that, I'll build the very latest from source. I'll let you know
> how I get on!
>
> Thanks for your help with this :)
>>> On 14/10/2011 16:12, Neill Mitchell wrote:
>>>> I now see about 10 rows of dud pixels at the bottom of all HD
>>> 1280x724, some as 1280x720. I would guess someone has come up with a
>>> more definitive answer since this issue first surfaced last year.
>> You query prompted me to do a bit of googling to look for more recent
>> info on this issue. As far as I can tell, the problem stemmed from
>> limitations in FFmpeg that prevented it from cropping enough to produce
>> 1280x720 frames from iPlayer HD programmes. A patch was applied to
>> FFmpeg in Nov 2010 to address this. That would explain the behaviour I
>> see on my Ubuntu 11.04 box. The ffmpeg-static from the PPA is of
>> sufficiently recent vintage to include that patch, and thus does the
>> necessary cropping, but the Ubuntu-supplied ffmpeg is from the 0.6
>> branch, which was cut long before the patch applied. I know this still
>> doesn't shed any light why you would see the opposite behaviour, but it
>> squares with what I'm seeing.
>>
>>
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Just FYI
The latest build we have here @openSUSE via Packman is:
ffmpeg-0.8.5-1.2
working perfectly ATM