[MPlayer-users] Red Pixels and ATI+DELL

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/10/07, Raeez <rlorgat at webafrica.org.za> wrote:
> Hi, Im on Kubuntu 6.10 edgy eft and I have both the distro version and the svn
> (I update daily) version of mplayer which I have built. I notice the following
> problem regardless of which i use (i only really use the svn version though).
>
> Picture quality is good, except for when I come across a deep red area in the
> picture. All reddish colours especially deep red are extremely blocky with
> large pixels whilst the rest of the picture is fine. I have only found this
> with 4CC encoded files (xvid, divx etc.)

It's normal, it's a compression artifact, as well as a colorspace issue.

Guillaume