[MPlayer-users] Re: bug in FFmpeg?

[Alex [CROW]]

Hi!

One more thing i forgot to say.
I recently upgraded the kernel 2.4.3 -> 2.4.20
I must admit that nothing went wrong when i launched MPLayer on old kernel!!!
Maybe it is some kind of incompatibility?
But....yow.... it's hard to find out between which components...

- XFree86
- kernel module nvidia.o
- glibc
- ......
as i said all those are fairly recent.

And another thing. As i can remember the last best working version (for me of 
course) was mplayer0.90rc1. I can't test it now because i occasionally 
deleted it :((. AFAIK it's not on mplayerhq FTP anymore. Is it?


On Wednesday 09 July 2003 20:45, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Alex [CROW] wrote:
> > What components come later?
> > The output/rendering system? No, i don't think so, most non-DivX movies
> > play in Mplayer VERY NICE!
>
> If x11 works, but not xv, it has something to do with the vo layer. It
> may be that there is an interaction between libavcodec and the xv, but
> xv is involved. It could be that the decoder has a problem with a
> certain color space.
>
> >>similar problem with any video wider than about 750 on my TNT2 Vanta. I
> >>have very few videos this large, so I didn't know about the problem for
> >>quite a while. I get the problem playing the high resolution Matrix
> >>trailer (1000 columns wide), which is SVQ3.
> >
> > so the problem was with SVQ3, and you used XVideo too? Or x11 driver?
>
> No, the problem was with Xvideo. Video of that size has the same
> rendering problem using Xvideo (both MPlayer and Xine) regardless of codec.
>
> >>I transcoded it to MPEG-4
> >>using lavc and the result has the exact same problem, though my machine
> >>can play it without dropping too many frames. Both play clearly with
> >>"-vo x11", but have the junk with Xine.
> >
> > I can't use -vo x11 because of slow CPU :(
> > But if i had better one -- of course i would use x11 and wouldn't
> > complain. I like XVideo because it allows scaling without performance
> > degradation. Next, i don't use DIvX postprocessing, so movies can go fast
> > in XVideo (but still slow in all other drivers)
>
> Of course x11 is too slow; it's too slow on my machine too, at least for
> large video, where I'd need it.
>
> >>You  talk about "movies of high bitrates, fast movements", but how about
> >>the frame size?
> >
> > The typical frame size is 640x256 (as used in sample AVI)
> > Not big, as i have movies with bigger size that go well.
>
> It sounds like your problem is different from mine.
>
> Jonathan Rogers
>
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