[MPlayer-users] Garbled video

[Andreas Rönnquist]

Dean Montgomery wrote:
> Somehow I managed to break mplayer and I'm not sure what to do to fix it.
> 
> I'm running Debian Testing.
> xserver-xorg 1:7.0.20.
> mplayer 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060430-0.4
> w32codecs 1:20060501-0.0
> nvidia video drivers from the nvidia website.
> using -vo xv
> 
> I've obtained the mplayer packages from.
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> 
> These packages worked great.  However some time later, after doing some 
> upgrades, the video quality became very poor.
> 
> I tried compiling it from source but I get the same problem.
> I tried upgrading the nvidia drivers to the latest, but I get the same 
> problem.
> 3d accelerated programs still work fine.
> 
> Here are two images showing the garbled opening green-screen warning text 
> and the "Columbia Pictures" lady.  As you can see the picture is very poor 
> and grainy.
> http://dj-monty.net/tmp/mplayer-broke1.png
> http://dj-monty.net/tmp/mplayer-broke2.png
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

I've had the exact same problem (also on Debian Etch). I've also 
unsuccessfully tried th svn version, but managed to solve the problem 
using the mplayer version from Ubuntu - version number 
(2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8) , So I believe it is a 
packaging problem in the debian-multimedia repository.

I believe this is an somewhat ugly solution, but perhaps the best one 
until Debian-Multimedia repository is updated with a fully functional 
package.

(At the moment I was lucky enough to have an Ubuntu Dapper partition 
where I just could snatch the mplayer deb, though i do think the package 
should be easily availible somewhere on the net. - I'm not 100% sure if 
I needed to get any other packages from Ubuntu though, or If that was 
the only one needed.)

/Andreas