[MPlayer-users] Video Playback Problems with mplayer-1.0pre5-3.4.2

[Tom]

Hello,

I've browsed various forums and the mailing list for someone with a 
similar problem, however I haven't come across anything. I'm hoping 
someone might have an idea as to what's up.

Whenever I use mplayer to try and play just about any sort of video 
(DVD, DivX or XviD encoded AVI, MPG, etc) I get a very noticable amount 
of noise in the form of blue, red, and green pixels along with vertical 
lines of distortion. Occasionally the audio playback will also pop a 
bit. I've gotten this even with brand new DVDs played for the first 
time, so I don't think it's just poorly encoded files causing this. The 
only codec I seem to have minimal amounts of noise with would be 
quicktime, although I don't use that codec all that frequently. So, who 
knows.

As for the setup:

GeForce FX 5600 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with the following installed from 
ports:
xorg-6.7.0_1
nvidia-driver-1.06113_2
mplayer-1.0pre5-3.4.2
win32-codecs-2.1.0p5

A sample run with a DVD provides the following:

mplayer -vo x11 -vop hqdn3d dvd://1

[...]

DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)

Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 4.0 (2f+2r)  48000 Hz  448.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 56000->192000 (448.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)

vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
Opening video filter: [hqdn3d]

Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))

Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 32-bit special converter
demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.

Here's a screenshot of a dark section of the movie, to give better detail:
http://mysite............/vze6xb38/screenshot.jpg

I get the same results with or without the hqdn3d filter. I've noticed 
the error concerning the colorspace tends to come up with almost every 
file, so that might be it. But I haven't found anything about what to do 
concerning that.

If this is something obvious, mea culpa. :) Thanks in advance for any help.

--Tom