This sample is ment to aid implementing PAFF support to H.264 decoding. It is part of a VDR recording of channel Pro7 HD on ASTRA 19.2E. I'm not 100 % sure whether this sample is not damaged although I didn't get any reception errors logged by VDR. Similar issues appear for other channels on the same transponder which also use PAFF while ASTRA HD (same transponder, too) is fine (it doesn't use PAFF). It would be a good idea to run it through a reference decoder first to verify complience. The command used to play this file: ffplay paff_artefacts.es.h264 The output of ffplay: FFplay version SVN-r10650, Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --prefix=/soft/ffmpeg-svn --arch=i686 --cpu=pentium4 --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --disable-strip libavutil version: 49.5.0 libavcodec version: 51.44.0 libavformat version: 51.14.0 built on Oct 2 2007 23:50:11, gcc: 4.1.3 20070302 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]abs_diff_pic_num overflow [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]decode_slice_header error [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected [h264 @ 0xb7e0e2f0]illegal short term buffer state detected