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

[Aran Cox]

So, you use the mythtranscode program first, then mplayer/mencoder to
re-re encode them?  I wonder what it is about the .nuv files that cause
mencoder to leave the corruption in the file... at least I assume it is
something peculiar to the actual source data.  I never see this
corruption when using mencoder to create divx files from DVD's.

It's too bad... I really like having the control mplayer/mencoder gives
over the transcoding process.  I'm sure mythtranscode is a fine tool,
but I want to twiddle all the knobs so to speak. (hmm.)

Aran


On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 07:32, John M Wright wrote:
> I had this problem (when converting to DivX, full of green boxes
> and playing the RT-JPEG files in mplayer caused it crash).  Often
> mplayer complained about frame problems.  To fix this, I just
> transcode the files to MPEG first and then use mplayer/mencoder.
> That gets rid of both of the problems.
> ~john
> 
> On Monday 04 August 2003 03:30 pm, Michael Greb wrote:
> > 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
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