[MPlayer-dev-eng] Ugly H.263 display bug

attila attila at pai.kinali.ch
Sun Jul 18 03:53:27 CEST 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:22:54PM +0000, Shan wrote:
> I just noticed a really ugly bug which affects VLC as well as mplayer 
> when an AVI or MOV containing a H.263 stream with no aspect set is 
> displayed on screen and I'm at a loss over how best to fix it without 
> possibly screwing the RTP demuxer display size up!
> 
> What happens is both parse the correct display size from the file 
> header, but during the video setup both VLC and mplayer set the display 
> size that is passed from ffmpeg's H.263 codec.  Which ends up being a 
> default size of 352x288 so you can imagine that a video that's really 
> 160x120 or 320x240 would end up having black borders added to the right 
> and bottom.
> 
> Of course ffplay, JMF, quicktime and other players don't have a problem 
> as they take the header value as the only indication of the display 
> size.

Is this problem resolved or still outstanding ?

		Attila Kinali




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