[MPlayer-users] weird (really weird) flickering issue

[Florian Mickler]

hi,
i have gentoo linux with MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 and other recent stuff...

since 3 or 4 weeks or so mplayer is quite broken...
if i play movies using -vo xv (default) the video flickers, every 2nd frame is fully grey the other frames are distorted with grey blocks or lines...
i could not determine when, or by what upgrade it is broken. but i recently found smth weired:
i have one movie that "repairs" the issue.. after playing it (few seconds are enough), _every_ movie plays fine! (untill i restart my pc, login/logout has no effect)
has something like this happend before to someone? 
does somebody know why this happens? 

greets,
Florian

p.s.:
the distortions also happen with xine and are also repaired in xine after i played that movie...
i have attached the output of a movie played before the magic video, the output playing the magic video and the output of the first movie, played after the magic video....

diff of the output of mplayer playing the movie before and after the magic video with "-v": 

12:12:41 dmk at zel:/mnt/hda4$ diff -u fletcher1_lv fletcher2_lv 
--- fletcher1_lv        2005-02-23 11:42:18.000000000 +0100
+++ fletcher2_lv        2005-02-23 11:43:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 STREAM: Description: File
 STREAM: Author: Albeu
 STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
-CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0  
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    AVI file format detected.
+CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:3342336  
+AVI file format detected.
 list_end=0x2292
 ======= AVI Header =======
 us/frame: 40000  (fps=25.000)
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@
 *** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 640x368x12bpp YUV planar, 353280 bytes
 [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1398 dh: 1048
 [xv-fs] dx: 0 dy: 131 dw: 1400 dh: 788
-A:   0.1 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.095 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 23%                                                                                                                                                                 XXX initial  v_pts=0.000  a_pos=15963 (1.000) 
+A:   0.1 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.093 ct:  0.000   1/  1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 10%                                                                                                                                                                 XXX initial  v_pts=0.000  a_pos=15963 (1.000) 
 *** [vo] Allocating (slices) mp_image_t, 640x368x12bpp YUV planar, 353280 bytes
-A:   0.1 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.074 ct:  0.004   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 99%                                                                                                                                                                 Uninit audio filters... 0.001 ct:  0.021  37/ 37  8%  1%  1.3% 0 0 99%                                                                                                                                                                  
+A:   0.1 V:   0.0 A-V:  0.074 ct:  0.004   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 99%                                                                                                                                                                 Uninit audio filters... 0.001 ct:  0.022 107/107  7%  1%  1.5% 0 0 96%                                                                                                                                                                  
 [libaf] Removing filter dummy 
 uninit audio: mp3lib
 uninit video: ffmpeg
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