[MPlayer-users] Green lines creep into b/w video

[Ron Johnson]

On 09/17/2011 06:00 PM, Ken Bass wrote:
> I have a DVD rip of an old movie (1935 "A Midsummer Night's Dream"). The
> original movie was filmed in B/W.
>
> When I play the video, It starts fine, but horizontal green lines creep in,
> then after a few seconds, the image gets "reset" and the lines go away, but
> slowly start to creep back.Maybe something to do with interlacing and/or
> syncing? I am no expert. so that is why I am asking this here :-).
>
> FWIW, I have read that when the film was transferred to DVD, they did
> little, if any, restoration.
>
> Any ideas about this? In particular, how to get rid of these lines.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. This is a great classic, and I would love
> to watch a clean version of it.
>

What:
1) version of mplayer?
2) format and container is the movie?
3) happens when you play the movie with other programs?  vlc, totem...?

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