Hi,

> I had the problem, that about 50% of my videos suddenly stopped working and 
> became choppy at playback (for several months now, but I had no time to check 
> it earlier). However I didn't know whether that was caused by an update of 
> mplayer, freevo or any other component.
> 
> Afer some hours of debugging I found the cuplrit:
> 
> video/plugins/mplayer.py, line 257:
>         if self.version >= 1 and item['deinterlace']:
>             additional_args += [ '-vf',  'pp=de/fd' ]
>         elif item['deinterlace']:
>             additional_args += [ '-vop', 'pp=fd' ]
>         elif self.version >= 1:
>             additional_args += [ '-vf',  'pp=de' ]
> 
> Probably this only applies to my setup (Epia M9000, Debian Sid with Xfree, VIA 
> binary drivers, SPDIF-Out with resampling, Kernel 2.6.8.1-epia1) and only for 
> some types of video. However I doubt that, and I dont't think that it is a 
> good idea to apply video filters without being configured to do so in the 
> local_conf.

I'm a debian unstable user and I have to say the "-vf pp=<x>" option now
no longer works with the debian Marillat mplayer packages. When I run
mplayer on the command line with "-vf pp=de/fd"  I get "Option vf: pp
doesn't exist." In freevo itself it just dies silently, it took me a few
hours to figure it out but I've had to comment out the "-vf pp=<x>"
options for freevo to now play videos.

I don't know if this option has never existed in the Marillat mplayer or
if it's a new addition in freevo but I think it will make freevo stop
working for anyone using debian unstable and mplayer with freevo.

The only link on google I could find that contained the error message I
get is on google groups at http://tinyurl.com/4q246 it's in polish so I
have no real idea what it says. But I did try putting "spp" rather than
"pp" and mplayer seems to work, although if I run it like that on my
mpeg2 tv captures created by freevo from my dvb card (nova-t) then
everything goes a bit funky and the video flashes a lot.

I agree that putting these filters into the config file is probably a
good idea.

Cheers,

Alex

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