Streaming h.264 Tearing/Shearing/Flicker

uninspired · 1st March 2010, 23:04

Hey all-

I'm confounded by a problem and I've done a lot of searching to no avail. Essentially, my problem is that my x.264 encodes look fantastic when played in VLC, but have a strange tearing/flickering when they're playing through Flash player (streaming from Brightcove) OR Adobe Media Player (played locally).

This isn't a stuttering/buffering issue, it's just some strange sort of tearing (like part of the frame is trying to catch up). The demarcation is always horizontal.

To make things even more puzzling, the same videos look great when streamed to my Mac (FF or Safari both play perfectly).

Any ideas as to the cause or what specific differences between the Mac/PC Flash player might explain this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-Chris

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uninspired Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 4	Streaming h.264 Tearing/Shearing/Flicker Hey all- I'm confounded by a problem and I've done a lot of searching to no avail. Essentially, my problem is that my x.264 encodes look fantastic when played in VLC, but have a strange tearing/flickering when they're playing through Flash player (streaming from Brightcove) OR Adobe Media Player (played locally). This isn't a stuttering/buffering issue, it's just some strange sort of tearing (like part of the frame is trying to catch up). The demarcation is always horizontal. To make things even more puzzling, the same videos look great when streamed to my Mac (FF or Safari both play perfectly). Any ideas as to the cause or what specific differences between the Mac/PC Flash player might explain this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks -Chris