[MPlayer-users] Decoding rental divx

[Santiago Muelas]

Thanks, Richard, for your help but, unfortunatelly, there is some kind of 
protection and not only what you suggest. I have tried it and the result 
is, more or less, the same. Moreover, the rental site explains that it 
should be played with Divx Player, and, when using this, at the beginning, 
it seem to have a short period of time waiting as if asking trough 
Internet for some "key" or something similar.  :-(
Thanks anyway,
Samu



On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Santiago Muelas wrote:
>> Hello, users of the great MPlayer.
>> I would like to use MPlayer to see some films that I can rent trough
>> Internet.
>> Usually I'm in Linux, althought I can go to Windows. The films downloaded
>> can be viewed only in Windows with a viewer called DivX Player. The
>> quality is very good.
>> If I try to use MPlayer in Linux, as I do always, the sound is o.k. but
>> the screen is totally broken into small rectangles and strange colors. I
>> guess, there should be some kind of coding protection on the film, as
>> there are continuous messages of "frames broken" and other stuff.
>
> No, it's probably just a shitty-quality file, and "divx player" has
> postprocessing enabled by default. Try something like -vf pp=ac to
> enable postprocessing.
>
> Rich
>
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