[MPlayer-users] No colors with "-vo xv".

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 02:50:18PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> I have a brand neew DVD player. I've rented "minority report" to test 
> it, it works, but it only shows colors with "-vo x11". With either "-vo 
> xv" or "-vo sdl" I get black&white video.
> 
> I'm using the nvidia driver and CVS' mplayer.
> 
> This is some of "mplayer -v output":
> 
> ==> Found audio stream: 131
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> Trying filter chain: vo
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is 1,78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> VO Config (720x480->854x480,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
> VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
> VO: Description: X11/Xv
> VO: Author: Gerd Knorr <kraxel at goldbach.in-berlin.de> and others
> Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
> Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
> Xvideo image format: 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
> Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar
> using Xvideo port 145 for hw scaling
> [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 854 dh: 480
> xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=10485761.
> *** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x480x12bpp YUV planar, 518400 bytes
> [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 854 dh: 480
> *** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 720x480x12bpp YUV planar, 518400 bytes%
> *** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 720x480x12bpp YUV planar, 
> 518400 bytes
> A:   0,7 V:   0,7 A-V:  0,011 ct:  0,038   16/ 13   0%  0%  0,0% 3 0 0%
> demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
> 
> Is this a known bug? Is there something I can do before having to return 
> this movie? (I have 5 days =) ).

Sounds like nvidia is making new bugs again and again. :))))

Try -vf format=yuy2 (or -vf yuy2 which is faster but lower quality) to
force it to convert to yuy2 mode. That might work around the bug.

Rich