Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:18:20AM +0200, Guillaume wrote: > > On a side note, I tried some other things to have it playing properly: > > I manually edited the video file in hexa to replace the string SIPP by > > xvid. Doing that made the video perfect with the current ubuntu > > mplayer (MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3): fluid, no dropped > > frame, no verbosity. > > This sounds like one of the Xvid bug-workarounds need to be enabled in the > decoder. I think it is possible to force them with some -lavfdopts option > for testing to figure out which it is. It is bug=16, the padding bug. It should be auto-detected (since a very long time), but it isn't: See FFmpeg issue 1966 (Why is the score never reset?) Carl Eugen