Posted: 3/16/2012 12:38 AM
Post subject: Youtube and chroma placement
natt
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Lossless h264 4:2:0 in mkv with chromaloc VUI flag. Other than differences in chromaloc flag, the actual video content is identical chromaloc 0 (mpeg2\mpeg4) Link to video chromaloc 1 (jpeg\mpeg1) Link to video What it "should" look like, more or less: Doesn't really matter to anything though. Chroma placement is so unreliable as it is. Edit: Did a similar test loading mp4 with the chromaloc positions into JWplayer, and it gave the same results (always JPEG/MPEG1, regardless of bitstream flag).
Posted: 3/16/2012 2:43 PM
Lex
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So youtube ignores the chromaloc flag, preferring to align the chroma properly?
Posted: 3/16/2012 4:36 PM
natt
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Lex wrote:
So youtube ignores the chromaloc flag, preferring to align the chroma properly?
I agree that MPEG1 placement makes more sense than MPEG2 placement, but when so many other things assumes MPEG2 placement... it can be a problem.
Posted: 3/16/2012 4:37 PM
Lex
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Things like what?
Posted: 3/16/2012 4:46 PM
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Lex wrote:
Things like what?
Well, this would be getting more into downloadable primaries and _512kb, since our youtubes already "avoid" the issue by massively oversizing everything. If you scale 4:4:4->4:2:0 in avisynth without using chromainplacement parameter, you get MPEG2 chroma siting. If you then play that back in flash player as the _512kb, you get MPEG1 chroma siting, which means relative to how it should be, your chroma will be shifted half a pixel to the right. If you scale 4:4:4->4:2:0 with swscale, you get ??? To be honest I never really noticed it much. FWIW: vlc assumes MPEG1, mpc-hc with evr-cp assumes MPEG1, mpc-hc with madvr assumes MPEG2. Seems like no one is actually reading the bitstream flags.