On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 14:11 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Since a few weeks some .wmv files cannot be played properly by both > mplayer and xine, movies that could be played fine without these green > colors some time ago, at least as far as I can recall it. When played > back now, these movies look like shown on the pictures on this page: > > http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66006 > > This mess happens both on a rather fresh unstable Debian on a > TiBookIV, and on a not-so-fresh unstable Debian on a Powerbook5,8. > > On the Powerbook5,8 Xorg packages are relatively new from unstable > (not so new is a relatively big chunk of the rest of the packages, > which might be more than half a year old, from unstable) and mplayer > is upgraded to very new versions: mplayer self-rolled 1 or 2 weeks ago > from sources as found on the mplayer sites and installed on the > Powerbook5,8. > > Contrary to the TiBookIV where a new mplayer-g4 (mencoder-g4) is > installed from debian.netcologne.de. > > New xine packages are used on both machines as shipped with Debian > unstable ... > > On both machines this behavior can be seen with the same self-compiled > non-Debian kernel 2.6.30 running. Additionally, the TiBookIV, when > booted with some 2.6.26.rc5 kernel (from git sources then, IIRC), shows > the same behavior regarding these greenish edges ... > > Google seems to relatively silent on the mess - that's why I'm here. > > So before going into more details: > > Does anyone know the reason for this change of behavior of these movie > players?
The screenshots look to me like it's most likely a bug in the video decoding code, maybe ffmpeg (e.g. package libavcodec51 or libavcodec52). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
