Mplayer loves the blue color...

Delkaton · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 121

Something is wrong with my Mplayer. For some reason it really likes the blue color. It is as if it was in a blue and white color only config. Brown and black are fine, but every other color like green, red, yellow, pinks gets shades of blue. Anyone knows what is wrong?

I am using 1.0_pre4-r3
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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

ATI card?
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RSay · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

I had a problem like this over the weekend trying to use the tv-out on my laptop that drove me insane.

All the people looked very smurfy to me! I have an ATI mobility m7 card btw. I was able to fix the color with the rgb2bgr filter however, my playback speed ground to a halt. I was left with three options when trying to get this running with atitvout

1. Normal color and playback speed with the top and bottom of the screen somewhat truncated. (Would have been fine if "The Last Samurai" didn't have subtitles at the bottom of the screen.

2. Wrong color(blue people), right size and playback speed using vo x11.

3. Right size, right color and poor playback speed (as described above with the rgb2bgr filter).

I suppose this could be an mplayer bug but I'm betting on the ati card.

roo_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 91

Same here.

I have a Radeon IGP 340M, using 2.6.5-mm6 kernel.

Funny, playback its fine, unless its in framebuffered console using the vesa driver.

Which drivers (other than vesa) support framebuffer playback?

Roo

Delkaton · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 121

Actually I am using a very old voodoo4. X and games are normal, and so was Mplayer before a format and switch to Xorg...
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lunarg · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 7:23 am Post subject: Re: same here - ati card :s

fng · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject:

any fix yet instead of downgrading?
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venkat · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

mplayer might be a very capable media player but it is far from a mature media player. for example i don't want to see a black area for about a minute before mplayer plays a huge avi file. there are many little issues like this that makes it look like far from being a mature product.

Gentree · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 11:32 pm Post subject:

Yes, I was seeing similar behaviour on audio.

I used icebergradio.com and it seemed to download a whole audio track before I got any sound. Equally , when I cut the internet connection I still got about 3 mins music.

I say "used" because it is now completely stuffed and saturates my system by spawning an indefinate number of processes, each of which fails to play the audio ....so it does another.

Help!

I have to kill Opera to clean up , then start agiain. It also failed for mozilla but at least moz did not spawn like bullfrog on heat.

Botton line mplayer is not any use here.

ricochen · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

try

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

I have the same problem but only if I use gl video driver

no problem with sdl or xv

Gentree · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject:

My pb seems to be more related to mplayerplug-in

I can download and view files with mplayer on the command line with no error . It is just if I try to view a page with opera or moz. that I get a mess.

anyone getting this behaviour?

8 · n00b Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 30

I had a blue problem with mplayer using an nvidia TNT2 card
and it seems fixed if I invoke mplayer with -vo sdl as in...

Delkaton · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 121

Re-installing mplayer with 3dfx use flag and changing driver on mplayer config solved the problem.
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