[MPlayer-users] playing dixv encoded files in windows

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:48:02AM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > so i'm not that
> > > motivated to spend time on it right now. i might later, but if you
> > > want to do some tests and tell me which patch broke it, i'll be happy
> > > to go from there and research it and hopefully find a workaround.
> > 
> > The plot thickens.

and so it does...

> > 
> > I've been putting a bit of extra load on the MPlayer CVS server and CPU,
> > trying to track down exactly when things broke, and why.  
> > 
> > Well, after a few hours, I've narrowed it down to a commit between 03:45
> > and 04:30 on 2004-08-02.  Now, that's 252KB of patches to look through,
> > and I could narrow it down further, but I think I've found the culprit. 
> > All of the commits at that time were part of the libmpeg2 upgrade.

figures...new libmpeg2 is so broken. i want to revert..

> > To verify that is the problem, I tried encoding with CVS, adding '-vfm
> > ffmpeg' to the mencoder options, and the avi file it output didn't cause
> > mplayer to crash.  I'm quite content having located the cause.  If you
> > aren't interested in fixing it, that's your call.
> 
> hmm, interesting. i'll look into it.

i've confirmed this, and it's very strange since the first duplicate
frame still comes before pullup outputs a frame... so maybe the
problem is somewhere else. i have no idea how the decoder you _decode_
the movie with has any bearing on the validity of the _encoded_
output...

sorry but i'm at a loss again as to what the problem is...

rich