[MPlayer-users] Change the colour of the green screen

[Phil Rhodes]

> Whenever I launch my Windows install of MPlayer to play a .mov file in
> fullscreen mode, I see a brief blip in which a green screen is displayed
> before my video starts.  Is there a way to change the colour of that
> screen to black?  We are showing the film to a theatre audience, and I
> would prefer them not to see a green flash before the film begins.

Look up the -colorkey option:

mplayer -colorkey 000000 myfile.avi

...will play all files with a black colorkey. If you minimise the mplayer 
playback window, you may find that bits of video show through on any area of 
the desktop that is black (such as text) but that's probably an OK tradeoff 
in your situation.

I wrote a complete interface for theatrical playback and cueing, including 
midi show control and RS232 lighting control, using mplayer as a core. It is 
possible to make a pretty comprehensive system out of it.

P