MPlayer inverting colors? WTF.

[irishScott]

So I just tried playing an episode of Stargate Atlantis (Disclaimer: That I legally own) via mplayer. I'd use VLC, but for some reason the A/V is out of sync. Anyways, here are some screenies:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/i...nshot-2036221.divx.png
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/i...hot-2036221.divx-1.png (The explosion should be fiery red/orange)

Any ideas?

I'm currently running this off of Ubuntu, Mobility Radeon X1600 using the fglrx driver.

 

[aceO07]

Is this a new install of Ubuntu? First occurrence of this happening? Have you tried playing other videos? What did you change prior to this happening?

I can't really help or hint at a solution, but maybe those questions might help someone else who knows more. I think there's a forum out there for ati/amd graphics card under linux, unfortunately I can't remember the name. They seemed very up to date and technical, so maybe they would be of more help.

 

[IEC]

That's quite bizarre... have you tried any other media player?

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: aceO07
Is this a new install of Ubuntu? First occurrence of this happening? Have you tried playing other videos? What did you change prior to this happening?

I can't really help or hint at a solution, but maybe those questions might help someone else who knows more. I think there's a forum out there for ati/amd graphics card under linux, unfortunately I can't remember the name. They seemed very up to date and technical, so maybe they would be of more help.

Yep, fresh installation, CD had no defects according to Ubuntu's checker. I've tried several different videos of several different formats. No difference. No changes other than installing the fglrx driver. I'll switch to Vesa and see if it helps...

And I'll see if I can hunt down that forum. Thanks.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
That's quite bizarre... have you tried any other media player?

VLC displays color properly, but has other issues (A/V synch, stuttering video when playing DVDs, etc)

 

[Nothinman]

What video out plugin are you using?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Pics won't load for me. The only solution I can think of that hasn't been suggested already is uninstall it and install it again, see if that fixes the problem.

 

[Chiropteran]

It's a known issue, there was some workaround for it but I don't remember the exact url- search on the ubuntu forums and it shouldn't be too hard to find.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

1. Ubuntu is pure crap, even their "stable" is very, very rarely what anoyone would consider stable.
2. start gmplayer, right click the video window and choose preferences, start with the tab named "video", for you (and everyone else) you should do fine with X11/Xv.
3. click codecs and demuxer, choose FFMPEG from the dropdown boxes.

 

[Nothinman]

1. Ubuntu is pure crap, even their "stable" is very, very rarely what anoyone would consider stable.

Proof?

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Nothingman, the proof for it exists in www.ubuntuforums.com. It's no secret that upgrading to Feisty made more than 50% of all installations unbootable, i just don't like Ubuntus approach in this matter and at the same time i applaud Debians which is a LOT more stable, mostly because the Ubuntu kernel patches are stupid.

I honestly despise the Ubuntu team for fucking up more and more with every god darn release, take the latest LTS release, 85% couldn't boot into X after the upgrade but that is an IMPROVEMENT over the past where 100% couldn't boot into X and it took three weeks to resolve it.

For newer users PCLinuxOS, SuSE or Fedora är much more preferable and to be entirely honest, Debian isn't harder to install either, it's just more text instead of GUI but if you cannot choose in text then how the hell are you going to choose GUI.

Favourite for the moment is Arch though, how long this will last i don't know...

 

[Nothinman]

Nothingman, the proof for it exists in www.ubuntuforums.com. It's no secret that upgrading to Feisty made more than 50% of all installations unbootable, i just don't like Ubuntus approach in this matter and at the same time i applaud Debians which is a LOT more stable, mostly because the Ubuntu kernel patches are stupid.

That's a relatively rare thing to do so I wouldn't consider that too big of a deal and I wouldn't consider it a stability issue. A stability issue would be something crashing or just not working right after installing/upgrading it via a supported method. I'm not sure what they did to make dist-upgrades so iffy, but supposedly if you use update-manager (or whatever it's called) it works pretty well and that's what they tell you to use. Hell look at Fedora, I don't think any Fedora user would recommend upgrading from release to release.