[Angstrom-distro-users] mplayer woes

[Tim Chick]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 20:09, Oliver Fels wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007 20:27:10 Tim Chick wrote:
> > > OK, that was too quick. It plays well the first time and brings the
> > > Akita to a halt the next time mplayer is run even with the same
> > > parameters.
> >
> > This doesn't happen here.
> >
> > Are there any video clips I can download to reproduce this?
>
> It uses to happen with the trailer of the ratatouille movie downloaded from
> pocketmovies.net
> This one is 640x272 iirc.
>
I've just noticed it all goes horribly wrong if you use -vf scale with a final 
x and y resolution which are not multiples of 16 - you get lots of alignment 
errors.

Also - if the audio is at 32kHz it goes wrong, but this can be corrected by:
-ao alsa -af resample=44100 (just tested this)


Thanks,
Tim