[MPlayer-users] Distortion between different versions of MPlayer/Mencoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 04 October 2003 14:55, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > i guess thats only happenig with files which have width or height %16 =!
> > 0,
>
> Yes, that seems to fit.
>
> > yes there was a bug in old libavcodec versions but i thought it didnt
> > affect encoding, can u provide some samples?
>
> I've put up a very temporary ftp server (I'll leave it up for a few
> days).  You need to use active mode however.  ftp://rcooley.dyndns.org
the server seems down (it doesnt even awnser pings ...)

>
> That has jpegs of playback with mplayer 09x/1x, from files encoded by
> mencoder 09x/1x.  I've also put the 15 second source files up for both,
> so you can try it yourself.  The stills don't seem to show the problem
> quite a clearly as the videos.
>
> > hmm, do u have an example video generated by mencoder 0.9x which doenst
> > play in mplayer 1.x, this shouldnt happen
>
> One that doesn't play?  No.  However, I have many examples of videos
> that have been encoded with mencoder 0.9x, that have a great deal of
> distortion when played back with mplayer 1.x, although they playback
> fine with mplayer 0.9x.
ok, i think i fixed it, but iam not sure as i coulnt download the sample video

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