On Friday 25 January 2013 09.04:35 Dan Dennedy wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Steven Boswell II <ulatekh at yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> I'm getting the same problem with HuffYUV rendering -- my interlaced > >>> video > >>> ends up progressive. > >>> To be fair, "ffmpeg -i input.yuv -vcodec huffyuv output.avi" also loses > >>> my > >>> interlaced flag (at least according to "ffmpeg -i output.avi -vcodec > >>> rawvideo -f yuv4mpegpipe - | head -1"). > >>> I don't suppose this would be another quick, easy fix...? > >> > >>I looked into it a bit, and I am not sure what is going on. > >>[...] > >> > >>If you can figure out > >>ffmpeg command lines that show how to output interlaced huffyuv and > >>verify it (preferably with ffprobe and not mediainfo's magic), that > >>would help. Otherwise, I have something big I am working on for MLT at > >>the moment and cannot give this much attention at this time. > >> > > I understand. Thanks for looking so deeply into this! At least you > > verified that it's not an mlt/kdenlive bug. > > I'll let you know if I can get any better results out of ffmpeg. > > > > One thing I noticed in kdenlive is the "Advanced" tab in the "Properties" > > window of the imported clips. It says I can override various properties, > > and I tried to turn off the "progressive" flag on my imported HuffYUV > > clips, but it didn't seem to take. However, if I hand-edit the .kdenlive > > file, and change >>progressive="1"<< to >>progressive="0" > > top_field_first="0"<<, then reload it in kdenlive, the Properties window > > now says that the clip is interlaced. Is this a valid workaround? And > > should the Properties window > Perhaps not because there is a MLT portion of the XML document (the > majority) and a kdenlive part. It is not using XML namespaces, but > everything <kdenlivedoc> and below belongs to kdenlive. MLT's > properties to override those things begin their name with a "force_": > > http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/ProducerAvformat#force_progressive > > > have let me do this without hand-editing the file? > > Yes, I noticed some quirkiness here as well. It seems I have to visit > the dialog twice for it to take effect.
Should be better now with my last commit. regards jb