[MPlayer-users] first frame green with directx vo using slave mode

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 06:54:09PM -0500, Morris wrote:
> This is using the   sherpya-r36475+g0bf8580-4.6   build.  I have
> found this to be true on all versions of mplayer I've tried in the
> last 6 months to a year.  I had changed to direct3d and the gl vo
> quite some time ago, but some of the videos I have now don't play
> back smoothly enough with those video outputs

Since DirectX is kind of dead, it might be worth checking if you can
get those other vos (in particular gl) up to the same speed though...

> I expect that this is related somehow to idle or fixed-vo since it
> doesn't happen with the first video, but don't really know.  Any
> ideas?

Probably the DirectX surface somehow gets filled with 0s.
That results in green output.
How exactly that happens would need proper debugging.