[mythtv-users] Mplayer problem (came out of the Sample Video question)

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 07:46:48 UTC 2004


post the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line

-Nate


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:16:15 -0400, PAUL WILLIAMSON
<pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
> I've been using and admin of various unix and linux platforms
> for quite some time (like 10 years or so?  wow) and been running
> myth in a usable for for about 6-8 months.  I've been fooling
> around with mplayer, and never gotten it to play video
> from the command line right.  All recorded shows and stuff
> from within myth is fine.  The best way to describe the
> video of pre-recorded stuff (like VOBs and DVD ISOs) is that
> it looks like a twizzler.  Imagine a tube of pillsbury grands
> biscuits and the image is like that, but the twist is a
> whole lot tighter.
> 
> I used to see this on old TVs where the horizontal hold (or
> maybe vertical, dunno) is totally out of whack.
> 
> Is there any hope of straightening it out?
> 
> Paul
> 
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