[MPlayer-users] Bug: VESA lacks auto-ilpack

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>trying to play movies using the VESA driver (Mplayer from CVS
>>yesterday), colors are hue-inverted, that is, skin color becomes blue
>>for example, but black stays black.
>>This bug is not present in MPlayer-0.90, and only within the vesa
>>driver.  For now, one can bypass it with -vop ilpack
>
>You too, huh?  This has been a problem since MPlayer-20030328.
>	For more effective reporting of CVS-snapshot problems, please
>determine exactly which CVS snapshot a problem arises with.  Test a
>snapshot half-way between a known-good snapshot and a known-bad one.  If
>it's good, it becomes the new known-good; otherwise, it becomes the new
>known-bad.  Repeat until you have immediately adjacent dates for
>known-good and known-bad.

I used MPlayer-20030609.tbz2 from the "Previous CVS snapshots" directory.

How come somedays it's good and somedays it ain't? A friggin bug in the CVS
system!?


>	For example:
>
>- I upgrade from MPlayer-20030306 to MPlayer-20030423 and find it has a
>  bug.
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030323
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030423
>                      Half-way: MPlayer-20030408 - Bad
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030323
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030408
>                      Half-way: MPlayer-20030331 - Bad
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030323
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030331
>                      Half-way: MPlayer-20030327 - Good
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030327
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030331
>                      Half-way: MPlayer-20030329 - Bad
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030327
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030329
>                      Half-way: MPlayer-20030328 - Bad
>- Known-good: MPlayer-20030327
>  Known-bad:  MPlayer-20030328
>                      Adjacent dates!  Follow DOCS/bugreport.html .
>
>	Anyway, my previous bugreport is in the mailing-list archive:
>
>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-April/032537.html
>
>	Until the developers manage to fix it, you can work around it
>with a minimum of fuss by explicitly including the software scaler
>(which is also a colourspace converter, remember)-- '-vf scale'.
>

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- Jan Engelhardt