[MPlayer-users] mplayer mpeg2 artefacts

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Tuesday 23 October 2007 07:12:49 Jérémy Lajotte ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> When I play HD Mpeg2 files with mplayer, some "artefacts" appears
> during half seconds, at some moments in the video. Theses artefacts
> always appear at the same place/moment when I replay the video. I
> though it was a problem in the video and that I could fix it
> somehow (how?) but in fact, when I play the video using VLC, there
> is no artefacts at all.
>
> (forgive my english)
> So...  : the video plays perfectly in VLC, but artefacts appears in
> MPlayer. I tried mpeg12 codec and ffmpeg12 codec, without changes.
> Could it be a problem in the video files that VLC codec fix
> automaticaly? (which codec does VLC use anyway?)

no, more likely a bug introduced recently: I noticed the same
thing just yesterday, with both decoders

> Is there's an option in MPlayer to fix problems in my MPEG2-TS
> files ? (like GOP fix, or something?)

no

>
> I want to use MPlayer because I want to encode theses videos using
> mencoder... but when I do it, of course theses artefacts appears
> again in the output video. And I can also see the artefacts of the
> output video in VLC.
>
> Voila... I hope someone can help me.. I spent last 6hours reading
> documentation and trying different parameters with no luck.
>

please, try to backtrack in svn history the whole mplayer repository
and/or try with both demuxers (-demuxer mpeg or -demuxer lavf)