[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mencoder skips every other frame...

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I recently rented the "Ed Gein" DVD.  It plays in fine mplayer, but not 
> gmplayer, which produces a gray box where the top half shows shows the 
> vertically crushed movie, but only in long bursts.  This is a clue that 
> interlacing has something to do with it. In mplayer, the VOB and DVD won't 
> decode with the ffmpeg12 codec, so it defaults to libmpeg2 where it works.
> But this isn't the worst problem.

this is wrong list for such questions.

ffmpeg12 is known to unable to handle field-coded vides.
also, 3-pass encoding is known to unable to handle field-coded vides.

none of them can be fixed for various reaons, STFA


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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