[MPlayer-dev-eng] Very strange fame behaviour...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:55:53PM +0100, David Holm wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been going back and forth with fame trying to make it work nicely 
> with the em8300 (dxr3/h+). I've almost made it work perfectly but I have 
> now stumbled upon a wall...
> After about 7 minutes of playback (happens with every video at the exact 
> same time of playback (not matter if you seek or pause etc, it happens 
> after 7 minutes of active playback) the pixels get blown up. It looks 
> like the screen is set to a lower resolution, but the seek-bar and time 
> counter is still displayed properly (well, almost).
> The pixels look like when tv networks scramble a face etc and this makes 
> video totally unwatchable with fame. This definately does not happen 
> with libavcodec and I haven't got a clue to why it happens, and after 7 
> minutes.
> It never goes back to the normal state either, once it's transformed you 
> have to kill mplayer and restart.
> 
> Have anyone got any clues to why this happens, or do I have to subscribe 
> to some fame mailinglist?
> 
> BTW, these are the settings I'm using:
>        fame_params.width = s_width;
>        fame_params.height = s_height;
>        fame_params.coding = "IPPPPPPP";
>        fame_params.quality = 90;
>        fame_params.bitrate = 6e6;
>        fame_params.slices_per_frame = 1;
>        fame_params.frames_per_sequence = 8;
>        fame_params.shape_quality = 100;
>        fame_params.search_range = 1;
>        fame_params.verbose = 0;
>        fame_params.profile = NULL;
> 
> Ah, and yes, if I change the coding to I-frames only it works perfectly...

Why would you want to use IPPPPPPP rather than I-only??? It's just a
lot slower...

Rich