[mythtv-users] MPlayer green boxes flash on screen...

[Michael Greb]

Aran Cox said:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 15:39, hayward at slothmud.org wrote:
>> I'm using the ATrpms version of mplayer which includes the patch to
>> support mplayer 0.10.  When I watch a video (mythtv .nuv) in MytTV, it's
>> perfect.  When I watch a .nuv with that patched version of MPlayer, I
>> get
>> lots of flickery green screens throughout the show.  Does anyone know
>> the
>> solution to this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian Hayward
>>
>
> I have the same problem.  Also I have the same problem when I use
> mencoder (via my own script, or mythencode.pl) to create divx files.  I
> get green flashes *frequently* throughout playback of the .nuv files or
> the encoded versions.
>
> Brian, did you ever fix this?  Is anyone else seeing this?  It's pretty
> consistent and is preventing me from archiving my shows.
>
> I'm using the atrpm version of mplayer and of MythTV.  mythencode.pl I
> just copied from the source distribution of .10.

I was seeing this as well with my recordings recorded in RT-JPEG but once
I switched to MPEG-4 it went away.  I did lots of searching of the
archives and came to the conclusion that the mplayer patch originally
didn't support RT-JPEG but there were reports of it working later on.  I
just decided I wanted MPEG-4 anyway due to smaller file sizes and haven't
looked back.

Michael