[mythtv-users] MPlayer green boxes flash on screen...

[John M Wright]

I had this problem (when converting to DivX, full of green boxes
and playing the RT-JPEG files in mplayer caused it crash).  Often
mplayer complained about frame problems.  To fix this, I just
transcode the files to MPEG first and then use mplayer/mencoder.
That gets rid of both of the problems.
~john

On Monday 04 August 2003 03:30 pm, Michael Greb wrote:
> Aran Cox said:
> > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 15:39, hayward at slothmud.org wrote:
> >> I'm using the ATrpms version of mplayer which includes the patch to
> >> support mplayer 0.10.  When I watch a video (mythtv .nuv) in MytTV, it's
> >> perfect.  When I watch a .nuv with that patched version of MPlayer, I
> >> get
> >> lots of flickery green screens throughout the show.  Does anyone know
> >> the
> >> solution to this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brian Hayward
> >
> > I have the same problem.  Also I have the same problem when I use
> > mencoder (via my own script, or mythencode.pl) to create divx files.  I
> > get green flashes *frequently* throughout playback of the .nuv files or
> > the encoded versions.
> >
> > Brian, did you ever fix this?  Is anyone else seeing this?  It's pretty
> > consistent and is preventing me from archiving my shows.
> >
> > I'm using the atrpm version of mplayer and of MythTV.  mythencode.pl I
> > just copied from the source distribution of .10.
>
> I was seeing this as well with my recordings recorded in RT-JPEG but once
> I switched to MPEG-4 it went away.  I did lots of searching of the
> archives and came to the conclusion that the mplayer patch originally
> didn't support RT-JPEG but there were reports of it working later on.  I
> just decided I wanted MPEG-4 anyway due to smaller file sizes and haven't
> looked back.
>
> Michael
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