[MPlayer-users] Distorted output with xv and Voodoo3

Malte Gell malte.gell at gmx.de
Thu Jul 22 09:21:14 CEST 2004


On Thursday 22 July 2004 00:58, Jon Niehof wrote:
> When playing certain AVI's or DVD's, the output using the xv driver
> is distorted--it's as if certain blocks of the image are smeared
> around rather than being redrawn properly. It's difficult to describe
> although I could probably take a digicam picture of it if necessary.
[...]

> From an AVI that doesn't work:
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)

Have you tried to play with codec.ffmpeg_pp_quality in ~/.xine/config? 
The online help says videos might look blurry if the value is too high 
for them, maybe setting this value to 0 helps.

[...]

> Output with x11 or sdl drivers is undistorted.

> I understand some xv problems can be caused by insufficient video
> ram. I reduced screen resolution (to 1024x768 16 bit) and disabled
> backing store but this did not make any difference.

Is Vidix not available for the Voodoo3? For me it gives the best results 
with my G400.

HTH
Malte




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