[MPlayer-users] Blizzard Hires trailer problem

[Tim U.]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:24:45PM -0800, Happy Camper wrote:
> Has anybody been able to play the newer high resolution trailer for
> WarCraft III from blizzard?  Available for download at : 
> http://www.voodoofiles.com/5734
> 
> I can only get it to play with the ffmpeg decoder but right side of the
> screen has all kinds of artifacts.
> 
> I am using the cvs version of MPlayer and ffmpeg from last night.
> 
> Atif.

I had the same problem a while back.  It was my fault.. my i810 
video chipset only supported xv images up to 720x576, so using xv 
video output with mplayer would always segfault (except for when 
using -vc divx4 for some unknown reason, in which case it would 
display a completely scrambled-looking picture).  I was able to 
get it playing perfectly on that system using -vo dga.  -vo x11 
also looked fine, but was too slow on my system to play it 
properly.

     My new laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon plays the WarCraft III 
trailer perfectly with -vo xv, -vo x11, -vo dga.  It also works fine 
with all the codecs I have that are associated with the "DIVX" fourcc 
in my mplayer's codecs.conf (-vc ffodivx, -vc odivx, -vc divx4, 
-vc divx4vfw).

Anyway, just try a different -vo.  If it still doesn't work, include 
the mplayer output in your next reply.

   - Tim U.