[MPlayer-users] Red Pixels and ATI+DELL

[Raeez]

On Sunday 11 March 2007 11:02:40 Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/10/07, Raeez <rlorgat at webafrica.org.za> wrote:
> > Hi, Im on Kubuntu 6.10 edgy eft and I have both the distro version and
> > the svn (I update daily) version of mplayer which I have built. I notice
> > the following problem regardless of which i use (i only really use the
> > svn version though).
> >
> > Picture quality is good, except for when I come across a deep red area in
> > the picture. All reddish colours especially deep red are extremely blocky
> > with large pixels whilst the rest of the picture is fine. I have only
> > found this with 4CC encoded files (xvid, divx etc.)
>
> It's normal, it's a compression artifact, as well as a colorspace issue.
>
> Guillaume

I would understand that, but then how do you explain that under windows the 
same file is rendered without this artifact, and why only the colour red? Is 
this a limitation of mplayer? or ffmpeg? The media player I use under windows 
is Media Player Classic along with ffdshow.