Re: mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:54:14AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 14:11 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > [ ... ]


> > Does anyone know the reason for this change of behavior of these movie
> > players?
> 
> The screenshots look to me like it's most likely a bug in the video
> decoding code, maybe ffmpeg (e.g. package libavcodec51 or libavcodec52).

I have the ffmpeg/libavcodec52 packages from www.debian-multimedia.org
installed ... and it looks like I cannot downgrade them without too
many packages being removed by apt-get.

So I'll wait a little ..

Thanks, Michel

Best Regards
Wolfgang

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