[MPlayer-dvb] Green bands/crashing with filtered DVB.

[Bill Pringlemeir]

See,
http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1613
http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1039
http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1588

Different filters have problems in the face of some mpeg stream errors
that may occur in OTA and cable broadcasts.  If you run filters when
viewing or recoding recorded video, then mplayer/mencoder may have
issues.

This is a problem in ffmpeg.  Use of '-vfm libmpeg2' solves this
issue... ffmpeg is probably faster.

I don't know if there is a profile '[dvb]', but I would suggest using
this libmpeg2 decoder as it seems more robust in the face of errors.
The symptoms are corrupt video and/or crashing.  The corrupt video
persists for many frames.  Restarting mplayer or switching channels
seems to clear the issue.  I had this issue frequently prior to
getting a 1920x1200 monitor which allows all content to play without
scaling; I did not understand the issue then.  I then re-encountered
this issue when encoding video with mencoder.

hth,
Bill Pringlemeir.

ps, if someone can verify these problems with ffmpeg please report the
problem there.  I think mplayer developers will ignore this issue and
ffmpeg want to know that this issue occurs with there program afaik.
I haven't had time to do this but I have seen everything while
debugging mplayer.