I attach the support for BGR 32/16/15. It seems that Direct3D supports only BGR (from MPlayer's perspective) and RGB (from it's own) and doesn't support the "MPlayer's RGB". That would be BGR from Direct3D's point of view. OpenGL driver uses BGRA as well, so I suppose this is just right. I've tested the three modes with: -vf format=bgr32 -vf format=bgr16 -vf format=bgr15 They work just fine.