[HLUG] Re: MPlayer problem...

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Emon,

On 04/01/06, Emon <contact_emon at gawab.com> wrote:
> > ...
>
> Thanks for the suggestion
>
> <snip>
>
> Now I will try to explain the meaning of "degraded" as best as I
> can.
> Back in those days when I used to play NFS2 on win98, the game
> had an option of changing the image quality by pressing F2; one
> of the option was "interlaced". In this option you get a lot of
> closely spaced horizontal lines on your screen (don't ask me
> why, I don't have a clue). Now my problem is not exactly that,
> but the video kind of slightly breaks up into closely spaced
> horizontal lines, and then it becomes OK agin. One second it's
> degraded, the next second it's OK... and so it goes on.
> My apologies in advance for putting you guys through probably
> the most idiotic explanation ever, but honestly don't know how
> else to explain it.

Does the problem only significantly affect moving items? For example,
does your video look like the video captures in http://www.100fps.com/
?  Try playing with the de-interlacing settings in the video player to
try and improve this (note that you'll never completely get rid of
it).

> Is it possible to take a screen shot of the video and then send
> it to you guy as attachment?? if so please let me know how to
> take screen shot of video in gmplyer.

If your using the x11 driver then you should be able to use the GIMP
to capture a screenshot.  I'd recomend pausing the video first though.

> Also I am using a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel, could it have
> any thing to do the problem??

Unlikely, I've been through the whole 2.6 series and never seen video problems.

Thanks
Mark

> Here are few more details on my machine, if it helps
>
> Processor: Duron 850MHz
> RAM: 512 MB (running at 266MHz)
> AGP: 64MB (GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x)
> I am using a driver that I downloaded from the nvidia site.


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