[MPlayer-users] grey video

[Louis Gualtieri jr]

I have been scratching my head on this one lately. It seems to mainly happen with mp4 videos. When a video get converted the converted video is grey and after 5 seconds returns to normal. Here is a bit of the log for one of the files that have experienced this issue.

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Command:
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/usr/local/bin/mencoder /var/www/ABCD/public_html/media3/files_video/user178/136847628ac1.mp4 -o /var/www/ABCD/public_html/media3/files_flv/user178/136847628ac1_240p_temp.264 -passlogfile /var/www/ABCD/public_html/media3/files_flv/user178/136847628ac1_240p_temp.log -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=746:frameref=2:mixed_refs:8x8dct:me=hex:subq=5:trellis=2:threads=2 -of rawvideo -nosound -ofps 25.000 -vf scale=424:240,harddup -demuxer mov 2>&1

Output:
MEncoder 1.0rc4-4.4.7 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x107b5803
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [avc1]  720x408  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7  fourcc:0x31637661  size:720x408  fps:25.000  ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [scale w=424 h=240]
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Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
Pos:   0.0s      1f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos:   0.0s      2f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Movie-Aspect is 1.76:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0xe12020]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using MMX2
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2
x264 [info]: profile High, level 2.1
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos:   0.0s      3f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
[h264 @ 0xd6a980]reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0xd6a980]Missing reference picture
Pos:   0.0s      4f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s      5f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s      6f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s      7f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s      8f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s      9f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Pos:   0.0s     10f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]