Bug#601252: mplayer: video distortion with fftheora decoder

[Nathan A. Stine]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1
Severity: normal

When watching a theora-encoded file and using fftheora to decode, mplayer seems
to introduce some distortion at the top of the video file.  This problem does
not exist with the 3rd-party "standard" theora decoder.  I checked the file in
ffplay and did not find the same distortion, so I believe this is an mplayer
bug.

The file in question is here:

http://ia331209.us.archive.org/0/items/Patent_Absurdity/Patent_Absurdity_HD_3540kbit.ogv

A screenshot is attached to show the distortion.  The video is encoded at an
interesting resolution: 1280x1088, which may contribute to the problem.

Thanks,

Nathan A. Stine

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1                 1.4p5-38          ascii art library
ii  libasound2             1.0.23-2.1        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2              1.9.2-3           Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52           4:0.6-2           ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52          4:0.6-2           ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil50            4:0.6-2           ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0               0.99.beta17-1     colour ASCII art library
ii  libcdparanoia0         3.10.2+debian-9   audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libdca0                0.0.5-3           decoding library for DTS Coherent
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9      1.2.10.0-4        direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libdvdnav4             4.1.3-7           DVD navigation library
ii  libdvdread4            4.1.3-10          library for reading DVDs
ii  libenca0               1.13-3            Extremely Naive Charset Analyser -
ii  libesd0                0.2.41-7          Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii  libfontconfig1         2.8.0-2.1         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.4.2-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0            0.19.2-1          Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.5-5         GCC support library
ii  libgif4                4.1.6-9           library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.8.2-2           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.11 1:0.118+svn3796-7 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62              6b1-1             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  liblircclient0         0.8.3-5           infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblzo2-2              2.03-2            data compression library
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20100313-4    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                1.2.0~dfsg-1      Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenal1             1:1.12.854-2      Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.44-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51          4:0.6-2           ffmpeg video postprocessing librar
ii  libpulse0              0.9.21-3+b1       PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.14-6.1        Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient           2:3.5.6~dfsg-1    shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1              1.2~rc1-1         The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.5-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1               1:1.4.3-30        console SVGA display libraries
ii  libswscale0            4:0.6-2           ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtheora0             1.1.1+dfsg.1-3    The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvdpau1              0.4.1-1           Video Decode and Presentation API
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.3-3         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               2:1.1.2-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.1-3           X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.7-1         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1                 2:1.0.5-1         X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1               2:1.0.5-1         X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1           2:1.1.1-2         X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1            1:1.1.0-2         X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2           1.0.5-6                  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  fontconfig      2.8.0-2.1                generic font configuration library
ii  mplayer-doc     2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 documentation for MPlayer
pn  netselect | fpi <none>                   (no description available)
ii  ttf-freefont    20090104-7               Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
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