[MPlayer-users] Brightness decreases on every video frame in MPEG-2 encodes

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:25:23PM +0100, Markus Kaiserswerth wrote:
> Am 10.02.2006 um 06:57 schrieb Rich Felker:
> 
> >On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:51:13PM -0800, RC wrote:
> >>On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:59:16 +0100
> >>Markus Kaiserswerth <mkaiserswerth at inetmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Video quality is nice (it does indeed look better), but the
> >>>flickering effect remains.
> >>>
> >>>What could I do?
> >>
> >>I've never seen this effect, so I don't have any ideas.  Ivan  
> >>believes
> >>you've run into a libavcodec bug, so upgrading to a CVS snapshot  
> >>would
> >>be a very good idea.
> >
> >Yes, sounds like buggy precompiled binaries to me.
> >
> >Rich
> 
> This is weird.
> I have now built MPlayer from CVS. I used the libavcodec, libavformat  
> and libavutil directories from an up-to-date ffmpeg-cvs snapshot and  
> copied them into the mplayer-cvs tree before building. Version is now:
> 
> MEncoder dev-CVS-060210-15:17-4.0.1
> 
> The effect is exactly the same. I will try this on x86 Linux now, to  
> see if this is somehow related to OS X, ppc or altivec code.

OK, let us know your results..

Rich