mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos
Hi All
Since a few weeks some .wmv files cannot be played properly by both
mplayer and xine, movies that could be played fine without these green
colors some time ago, at least as far as I can recall it. When played
back now, these movies look like shown on the pictures on this page:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66006
This mess happens both on a rather fresh unstable Debian on a
TiBookIV, and on a not-so-fresh unstable Debian on a Powerbook5,8.
On the Powerbook5,8 Xorg packages are relatively new from unstable
(not so new is a relatively big chunk of the rest of the packages,
which might be more than half a year old, from unstable) and mplayer
is upgraded to very new versions: mplayer self-rolled 1 or 2 weeks ago
from sources as found on the mplayer sites and installed on the
Powerbook5,8.
Contrary to the TiBookIV where a new mplayer-g4 (mencoder-g4) is
installed from debian.netcologne.de.
New xine packages are used on both machines as shipped with Debian
unstable ...
On both machines this behavior can be seen with the same self-compiled
non-Debian kernel 2.6.30 running. Additionally, the TiBookIV, when
booted with some 2.6.26.rc5 kernel (from git sources then, IIRC), shows
the same behavior regarding these greenish edges ...
Google seems to relatively silent on the mess - that's why I'm here.
So before going into more details:
Does anyone know the reason for this change of behavior of these movie
players?
Thanks for your time in anticipation.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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http://heelsbroke.wordpress.com
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