avconv: bad two first frames when mpeg2video encoding

[Ilya Murav'jov]

The quote from https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/880 :
"
When I encode using <b>mpeg2video</b>, in resulting video I have first two
frames in very low quality.
"

This bug was introduced in
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=3009f521f390b2bd440d9747a9c6baf648b2087a
and now already fixed in ffmpeg (but not in libav).

P.S. I am the developer of Bombono DVD program, and this bug hurts the users of it, see http://forum.bombono.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=15788 . I filled in the issue in libav bugzilla, see http://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222 , but there is no activity about it. Please fix it.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bob (rjbell4)]

Can this patch be applied? I basically cannot use bombono as-is, and need to look into some manual work-arounds.

[Tim (traggatt)]

Does anyone have a workaround for this issue?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

From the upstream bug, this got fixed in master around Jan 13-15th, 2013. However, I did not find the upstream patch, and the current codebase does not reflect the fix provided in #1.

Perhaps someone should re-open the upstream bug?
Meanwhile, it may not be a bad idea to include this in the Ubuntu package.

[Ilya Murav'jov (muravjov-il)]

Hi Bryce,
As far as I understand this bug is fixed in version 9.x and higher, see commit e44d56b18d46957fceaefe7f8840263c5cd12d37 .

[Diego Biurrun (diego-biurrun)]

This bug is fixed in all release branches of libav.