[MPlayer-users] xvidix radeon color problems

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 03 February 2003, Joonas Koivunen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hey everyone,
> 
> name of the file is http://koti.mbnet.fi/rzei/AvP2_Primal_hunt_trailer.avi 
> (12MB). It's an old Cinepak codec trailer I picked up somewhere.

I've tried it with Mach64, and...

> I find that 
> colors in this movie are screwed up, in the picture black seems to have been 
> replaced with green.

Colors are ok here, regardless of the codec.

> This ain't a huge problem as mplayer's native cinepak is able to decode the 
> video in a way that xvidix (or radeon?) is able to display it correctly. xv 
> driver displays it correctly with both codecs. My xfree86 is late January 
> fetched cvs with ati driver and my card is Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 PRO 128MB 
> or something like that.
> 
> Still, this vfw codec is used by default for some odd reason and is even 
> included in win32codecs-lite package. mplayer is latest rc3.
> 
> One thing more, OSD doesn't seem to appear with vfw codec and xvidix driver, 
> with vfw and xv it does. It also is enabled with native decoder and xvidix 
> driver.

But I can confirm OSD behaviour.

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