Re: mplayer/xine: Green areas at the edges of wmv videos
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
>
> 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?
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).
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