[MPlayer-users] Bad video quality with -vc ffmpeg12vdpau

[Andy Furniss]

Ilja Sekler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> about a week ago some changes in ffmpeg led to a very bad video quality
> when playing MPEG2 like from DVB-T or DVB-C in MPlayer with the
> ffmpeg12vdpau decoder. I didn't have time to bisect yet, but ffmpeg as
> of 2013-01-11 00:00 was OK and 2013-01-13 00:00 was already affected. Is
> it a known issue?

I just posted on ffmpeg users the first bad commit being

commit 41bdef1d39584727c9deaa42b86d085138098231
Merge: 8ee7b38 200e8ac
Author: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
Date:   Mon Jan 14 13:38:04 2013 +0100

     Merge commit '200e8ac92007bc2fe30da05d3bd00ab620842a6b'

     * commit '200e8ac92007bc2fe30da05d3bd00ab620842a6b':
       vdpau: Add MPEG-4 decoding via hwaccel infrastructure
       vdpau: Add MPEG-1/2 decoding via hwaccel infrastructure

     Conflicts:
         configure
         libavcodec/Makefile
         libavcodec/version.h


Are you using NVidia?