[MPlayer-users] Distortion between different versions of MPlayer/Mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:40:38PM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Okay, I've got an unusual, and worrysome problem here.  I have been 
> trying different version of Mplayer for some time, and switching back 
> and forth as required due to bugs, et al.
> 
> The problem I'm comming across, is that files encoded with mencoder-1x 
> show distortion when played with Mplayer-0.9x (typically starting around 
> the edge of the picture, but further in if the screen pans quickly), and 
> vise versa as well.
> 
> This concerns me mostly because of Archive issues...  This seems to mean 
> that the hundreds of videos I have encoded using mencoder-0.9x will show 
> distortion with 1.x, and vise versa.
> 
> First I'd like to ask if anyone else is having this problem.  If it's a 
> bug in mplayer/mencoder, is it a bug with 0.9x or 1.x?
> 
> If mails indicate nobody else is having this problem, I'll create a 
> bug-report, screenshots, samples, etc, (and hope the problem isn't in 0.9x).

If this problem really does exist, it's definitely a libavcodec issue,
not an mplayer issue. You should probably send a report (with links to
samples) to the ffmpeg-devel list.

Rich