[MPlayer-users] Problem playing this wmv file

[xi]

The Wanderer wrote:
> xi wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> The picture is distorded when I try to play this file :
>> http://xizard.free.fr/divers/problem.wmv
>> (xine plays it fine)
>>
>> I am using MPlayer 1.0rc1.
> 
> 
> That file plays back without distortion (beyond what I'd attribute to
> just low bitrate) for me, using SVN revision 20450.
> 
> One difference which I see is that you were using the DirectShow codecs,
> whereas I was using FFmpeg's WMV2 decoder. Try with '-vfm ffmpeg' and
> see if it plays back correctly. (Personally, I have that in my config
> file; cases where it's less appropriate than whatever would be normally
> detected are IME rather rare.)
> 
Thanks for your help, It works just fine with this option. As you, I am 
going to add this option to the config file.

Here is a screenshot where you will see what I meant by "distorded" : 
http://xizard.free.fr/divers/problem.png

Xavier