Re: Playing MPEG with 1_rc0a-0 badly broken on PPC (all pink video)

Hi James,

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> Bill Fink wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Michael Roitzsch wrote:
> > 
> >>>>Considering that this is the first release candidate for 1.0, I was
> >>>>hoping to get some feedback on why playing MPEG streams on PPC
> >>>>might suddenly have stopped working.  Oh well, I have gone back to
> >>>>1_beta12 for now since that works just fine.
> >>>
> >>>do you mean any mpeg stream or some in particular?
> >>>i can't test PPC, but i might try disabling acceleration or something
> >>>to see if i can reproduce it.
> > 
> > It does it on all three sample MPEGs I have, the xine logo, and a
> > DVD I tried.
> > 
> >>You could also try forcing different MPEG-capable demuxer by adding 
> >>"#demux:<demuxer id>". Currently there are "elem", "mpeg", "mpeg_block" 
> >>and "mpeg_pes". Some of them might not work at all for your file, some 
> >>might play video only and some might have endian bugs...
> > 
> > mpeg, mpeg_block, and mpeg_pes all have the same broken result, namely
> > the totally pink video.  elem is different but even worse, with no audio,
> > extreme blockiness, and tons of error messages like:
> > 
> > libmpeg2: stream not demultiplexed ?
> > 
> > It would be useful to have datapoints from other PPC users.  I'll
> > check a different type of PPC system at work to see if that makes
> > any difference.
> > 
> Can you try taking a snapshot of the output and post the url for it here.
> Is the whole display pink, of is it just a pink tinge to all the video.

I'm attaching a snapshot of the xine logo (it's only about 20KB).

                                                -Bill

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