[MPlayer-users] Weird distorted ghost image

[Saint Germain]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:21:12 +0100, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote :

> > > Whem playing DivX 5 movies I get a weird green/red ghost image at
> > > 45 degrees next to the correct image.
> > > 
> > > The problem only appear with -vo xv and not with -vo x11 or -vo
> > > gl2. Also there is no problem with Quicktime/MOV for instance.
> > > 
> > > I'm with the latest binary mplayer (0.99+1.0pre8) on Ubuntu Edgy
> > > with an integrated Intel 82815 graphic chipset on a Pentium III.
> > > I have confirmed this on Debian Etch too.
> > 
> > I also suspect that there is a problem with the videocard driver but
> > I'm not sure. Given that everything is ok with -vo x11, can we
> > deduce that the problem is truly in the videocard driver ?
> 
> If the image produced by -vf screenshot differs from the one displayed
> at the same time a driver issue is most likely, yes.

Just to lek you know : I've tested on Windows with the same mplayer and
everything is fine. So the problem must be in the driver and not in
mplayer.

> > I forgot to mention that I have no problem playing these files with
> > VLC. I've tried different size with -vf scale and I've tried with
> > different resolutions (1280*1024,1024*768,640*480) but no
> > differences.

I have no idea why it works with VLC though...