[MPlayer-users] dxr3: playing back mpeg2 telecine/interlaced movies

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Costa Tsaousis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use mplayer to drive 2x DXR3 cards (tv-out). Everything works fine, 
> except that movies with telecine/interlaced parts do not play correctly: 
> the telecine/interlaced frames are shown in reverse order (my 
> explanation), making action scenes jump back and forth several times per 
> second.
> 
> The same movies play fine on computer monitors with every media player I 
> tried (including mplayer), on TVs connected to H/W media players (kiss, 
> d-link, etc), but also on the same linux box when I use the graphics 
> card's tv-out instead of dxr3's tv-out.
> 
> All the movies are encoded with mencoder to MPEG2, without 
> de-interlacing them.
> 
> I am using Gentoo: kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r6, latest cvs of DXR3 modules 
> and mplayer 1.0_rc2_p25993.
> Any ideas?

Try the -lavcopts top=... option (see the man page).

Rich