The news you might all have been waiting for - untested here but the below is reproduced from the FFMPEG Dev mailing list: -

from: Paul Kendall paul@kcbbs.gen.nz reply-to: FFmpeg development discussions and patches ffmpeg-devel@mplayerhq.hu to: ffmpeg-devel@mplayerhq.hu

date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:13 AM subject: [FFmpeg-devel] H.264 & interlacing artifacts

Michael, It looks like the latest fixes to h.264 (I'm using revision 14405) seem to have fixed the artifacts for NZ DVB-T on the interlaced channels :-)

I will do some more testing, but the results so far look good!

I do see quite a few of these 2008-07-26 12:04:56.757 [h264 @ 0xb7158230]number of reference frames exceeds max (probably corrupt input), discarding one

and some of these 2008-07-26 12:04:56.774 [h264 @ 0xb7158230]mmco: unref short failure

Thanks Paul