[MPlayer-users] Distortion between different versions of MPlayer/Mencoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:40, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Okay, I've got an unusual, and worrysome problem here.  I have been
> trying different version of Mplayer for some time, and switching back
> and forth as required due to bugs, et al.
>
> The problem I'm comming across, is that files encoded with mencoder-1x
> show distortion when played with Mplayer-0.9x (typically starting around
> the edge of the picture, but further in if the screen pans quickly), and
> vise versa as well.
i guess thats only happenig with files which have width or height %16 =! 0, 
yes there was a bug in old libavcodec versions but i thought it didnt affect 
encoding, can u provide some samples?

>
> This concerns me mostly because of Archive issues...  This seems to mean
> that the hundreds of videos I have encoded using mencoder-0.9x will show
> distortion with 1.x, and vise versa.
hmm, do u have an example video generated by mencoder 0.9x which doenst play 
in mplayer 1.x, this shouldnt happen 

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