[MPlayer-cygwin] Trident CyberDVD 9525 / DirectX / WinXP problems

[Sascha Sommer]

> Hi,
>
> I have problems playing xvids with the most recent mplayer-cygwin on
> my Sharp PJ2-X3 notebook (333 MHz P2, 128mb RAM, WinXP SP1, DirectX 9.0b,
> Trident CyberDVD 9525 graphics in 1024x768x16bit mode - it's a couple of
> years old). I get an odd kind of colour distortion - most of the picture
> black & white, overlayed with stretched-out red / green / blue outlines
> of the areas that should have been coloured.

Please send the output of mplayer -v when this happens.

> I tried to take a screenshot with the DirectX capture mode of the SnagIt
> screenshot tool but it just gave me black results.

No wonder it is not possible to capture overlay images.

> If I turn off directx acceleration in dxdiag the problem goes away, but
> playback is far too slow. The same problem occurs with Media Player
> Classic. Oddly enough MPEG-1 files are fine with mplayer and MPC. WinDVD
> and Windows Media Player never have the problem, but they play the
> problematic files far too slow. The files played fine while I had Win98 on
> the laptop, and play flawlessly with mplayer 1.0pre2 on linux or on my
> WinXP desktop.
>

How much Ram does this card have?

Sascha