I’ve updated mythtv to revision 18021 & ffmpeg to revision 14509.
I have also applied patches as suggested on the NZ mailing list and also make it so the libavcodec section is compiled without -DPIC -fPIC, which should allow an out-of-the-box build.
I also came across issue #427 in the ffmpeg bug tracker which affects us here [...]
My patches have been updated!
Michael Niedermayer from the ffmpeg project has performed something truly miraculous… he as fixed the interlacing artifacts for h.264! It seems that in a bid to simplify some of the h.264 code he, perhaps inadvertantly , fixed the interlacing problems we were having with our Freeview|HD streams.
I have updated [...]
I have updated my version of ffmpeg to revision 14095 and mythtv to 17731.
I have created a script that does all the updating so there are no manual steps, which means I shouldn’t get it wrong again… hopefully.
Just added a new page with the list of patches that I have submitted to the MythTV trac site.