Problem with black borders

[Sohrab]

Hello,

Recently I'm experiencing problems with the playback of some H.264 videos in SMPlayer when adding black borders in fullscreen mode.

After updating from SMPlayer 0.8.0 with MPlayer r34992 to SMPlayer 0.8.1 with MPlayer r35203 (also tried MPlayer r35226) there is always flickering where the actual video and the lower added black border meet. Only a few lines at the bottom of the video are affected and it looks like the pixels of the video are alternating with black pixels.

I was able to reproduce this problem on four different computers with both nVidia and AMD/ATI GPUs, and I tried both old and latest drivers. In SMPlayer I made sure that the direct rendering option is disabled and I also tried to switch to OpenGL with no success. Also, it does not happen with all H.264 videos, just with some of them.

When I downgrade MPlayer to r34835 (r34992 wasn't available anymore) or r35034 from the problem disappears. Is this a bug in newer releases of MPlayer, or did something change and the problem can be fixed by turning on/off certain options in SMPlayer (without disabling the black borders)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Sohrab

[Sohrab]

Update: As of r35233 MPlayer crashes when attempting to play H.264 videos. This is the log:

C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx, -ao dsound -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -nodr -double -wid 327892 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-force-style PlayResX=512,PlayResY=320,Name=Default,Fontname=Arial,Fontsize=18,PrimaryColour=&H00ffffff,BackColour=&H00000000,OutlineColour=&H00000000,Bold=0,Italic=0,Alignment=2,BorderStyle=1,Outline=1,Shadow=2,MarginL=20,MarginR=20,MarginV=8 -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 18 -subfont-text-scale 18 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -sub G:/Videos/En.srt -subpos 100 -volume 52 -nocache -ss 4137 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 -nofontconfig G:/Videos/DT.mkv

MPlayer Redxii-SVN-r35234-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Setting process priority: abovenormal

198 audio & 413 video codecs
Cannot load bitmap font 'Arial'.

Playing G:/Videos/DT.mkv.
libavformat version 54.29.105 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
ID_CHAPTER_ID=0
ID_CHAPTER_0_START=0
ID_CHAPTER_0_END=581039
ID_CHAPTER_0_NAME=00:00:00.000
ID_CHAPTER_ID=1
ID_CHAPTER_1_START=581039
ID_CHAPTER_1_END=876876
ID_CHAPTER_1_NAME=00:09:41.039
ID_CHAPTER_ID=2
ID_CHAPTER_2_START=876876
ID_CHAPTER_2_END=1355771
ID_CHAPTER_2_NAME=00:14:36.876
ID_CHAPTER_ID=3
ID_CHAPTER_3_START=1355771
ID_CHAPTER_3_END=1626208
ID_CHAPTER_3_NAME=00:22:35.771
ID_CHAPTER_ID=4
ID_CHAPTER_4_START=1626208
ID_CHAPTER_4_END=1962377
ID_CHAPTER_4_NAME=00:27:06.208
ID_CHAPTER_ID=5
ID_CHAPTER_5_START=1962377
ID_CHAPTER_5_END=2322278
ID_CHAPTER_5_NAME=00:32:42.377
ID_CHAPTER_ID=6
ID_CHAPTER_6_START=2322278
ID_CHAPTER_6_END=2723554
ID_CHAPTER_6_NAME=00:38:42.278
ID_CHAPTER_ID=7
ID_CHAPTER_7_START=2723554
ID_CHAPTER_7_END=2988277
ID_CHAPTER_7_NAME=00:45:23.554
ID_CHAPTER_ID=8
ID_CHAPTER_8_START=2988277
ID_CHAPTER_8_END=3718464
ID_CHAPTER_8_NAME=00:49:48.277
ID_CHAPTER_ID=9
ID_CHAPTER_9_START=3718464
ID_CHAPTER_9_END=4179759
ID_CHAPTER_9_NAME=01:01:58.464
ID_CHAPTER_ID=10
ID_CHAPTER_10_START=4179759
ID_CHAPTER_10_END=4611732
ID_CHAPTER_10_NAME=01:09:39.759
ID_CHAPTER_ID=11
ID_CHAPTER_11_START=4611732
ID_CHAPTER_11_END=4911907
ID_CHAPTER_11_NAME=01:16:51.732
ID_CHAPTER_ID=12
ID_CHAPTER_12_START=4911907
ID_CHAPTER_12_END=5328656
ID_CHAPTER_12_NAME=01:21:51.907
ID_CHAPTER_ID=13
ID_CHAPTER_13_START=5328656
ID_CHAPTER_13_END=5927005
ID_CHAPTER_13_NAME=01:28:48.656
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
[lavf] stream 1: audio (dca), -aid 0, -alang eng
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=eng
ID_SID_0_NAME=Forced
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (subrip), -sid 0, -slang eng, Forced
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=eng
[lavf] stream 3: subtitle (subrip), -sid 1, -slang eng
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x536 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILE_SUB_ID=0
ID_FILE_SUB_FILENAME=G:/Videos/En.srt
SUB: Added subtitle file (1): G:/Videos/En.srt
Load subtitles in G:/Videos/
ID_FILENAME=G:/Videos/DT.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=536
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3881
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=5927.01
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=14
Opening video filter: [ass auto=1]
[ass] auto-open
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.64.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[redxii]

Try the latest build to see if it still crashes, but I can't reproduce the black border problem, all I have are widescreen H264 videos that might have something to do with it.

[Sohrab]

Tried it with the same result. The problem with the black borders was caused only by some H264 videos, so it would be reasonable to assume it had something to do with those files (they play fine in MPC-HC though). However, with the lastest builds MPlayer crashes for all H264 videos.

[Sohrab]

[rvm]

Try disabling all audio filters.

[Sohrab]

I disabled everything under Preferences -> General -> Audio and made sure no aditional audio filters were listed under Advanced Mplayer Options. Still no success. I guess for now I stick with MPlayer build r35034. Maybe a future build will fix this problem.

[redxii]

It hasn't crashed for me at all, so I don't know about why it's doing that.. try verbose logging.

[Sohrab]

The crash also happens with the MPlayer builds from . I was ready to blame my hardware/software configuration, but then again next to the black border problem I am able to reproduce even the MPlayer crash on four different machines running Windows XP or 7.

Here's the verbose log:

C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -v -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx, -ao dsound -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -nodr -double -wid 328264 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-force-style PlayResX=512,PlayResY=320,Name=Default,Fontname=Arial,Fontsize=18,PrimaryColour=&H00ffffff,BackColour=&H00000000,OutlineColour=&H00000000,Bold=0,Italic=0,Alignment=2,BorderStyle=1,Outline=1,Shadow=2,MarginL=20,MarginR=20,MarginV=8 -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 18 -subfont-text-scale 18 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 52 -nocache -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 -nofontconfig G:/Videos/DT.mkv

MPlayer Redxii-SVN-r35239-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
extended cpuid-level: 24
extended cache-info: 33587520
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNowExt: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting PATH to C:\Program Files\smplayer-portable\mplayer\codecs
Setting process priority: abovenormal

get_path('codecs.conf') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading optional codecs config file C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf: 199 audio & 413 video codecs
init_freetype
font: can't open file: Arial
Cannot load bitmap font 'Arial'.
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
get_path('fonts') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/fonts'
Configuration: --extra-cflags=-I/E/Buildsys/MinGW/msys/home/Joshua/live-10.04.2012 --prefix=e:/buildsys/release/mplayer-dev-r35239 --enable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-mp3lib --disable-libmpeg2-internal --disable-mng --disable-libopencore_amrnb --disable-libopencore_amrwb --disable-tv --disable-vidix --disable-faac-lavc
CommandLine: '-noquiet' '-v' '-nofs' '-nomouseinput' '-sub-fuzziness' '1' '-identify' '-slave' '-vo' 'directx,' '-ao' 'dsound' '-nokeepaspect' '-priority' 'abovenormal' '-framedrop' '-nodr' '-double' '-wid' '328264' '-colorkey' '0x020202' '-monitorpixelaspect' '1' '-ass' '-embeddedfonts' '-ass-line-spacing' '0' '-ass-font-scale' '1' '-ass-force-style' 'PlayResX=512,PlayResY=320,Name=Default,Fontname=Arial,Fontsize=18,PrimaryColour=&H00ffffff,BackColour=&H00000000,OutlineColour=&H00000000,Bold=0,Italic=0,Alignment=2,BorderStyle=1,Outline=1,Shadow=2,MarginL=20,MarginR=20,MarginV=8' '-fontconfig' '-font' 'Arial' '-subfont-autoscale' '0' '-subfont-osd-scale' '18' '-subfont-text-scale' '18' '-subcp' 'ISO-8859-1' '-subpos' '100' '-volume' '52' '-nocache' '-osdlevel' '0' '-vf-add' 'screenshot' '-slices' '-channels' '2' '-af' 'scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0' '-softvol' '-softvol-max' '110' '-nofontconfig' 'G:/Videos/DT.mkv'
Using Windows native timing
get_path('input.conf') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf'
Parsing input config file C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf
Input config file C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 92 binds
get_path('DT.mkv.conf') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/DT.mkv.conf'

Playing G:/Videos/DT.mkv.
get_path('sub/') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/sub/'
WINSOCK2 init: 0
WINSOCK2 init: 0
[file] File size is 4693204073 bytes
STREAM: [file] G:/Videos/DT.mkv
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
libavformat version 54.31.100 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
LAVF_check: Matroska / WebM
libavformat file format detected.
st:0 removing common factor 1000000 from timebase
st:1 removing common factor 1000000 from timebase
st:2 removing common factor 1000000 from timebase
st:3 removing common factor 1000000 from timebase
[matroska,webm @ 012ba980]File position before avformat_find_stream_info() is 5254
[h264 @ 012e10e0]no picture
[dca @ 012e10e0]Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
[matroska,webm @ 012ba980]All info found
[matroska,webm @ 012ba980]File position after avformat_find_stream_info() is 38459
ID_CHAPTER_ID=0
ID_CHAPTER_0_START=0
ID_CHAPTER_0_END=581039
ID_CHAPTER_0_NAME=00:00:00.000
ID_CHAPTER_ID=1
ID_CHAPTER_1_START=581039
ID_CHAPTER_1_END=876876
ID_CHAPTER_1_NAME=00:09:41.039
ID_CHAPTER_ID=2
ID_CHAPTER_2_START=876876
ID_CHAPTER_2_END=1355771
ID_CHAPTER_2_NAME=00:14:36.876
ID_CHAPTER_ID=3
ID_CHAPTER_3_START=1355771
ID_CHAPTER_3_END=1626208
ID_CHAPTER_3_NAME=00:22:35.771
ID_CHAPTER_ID=4
ID_CHAPTER_4_START=1626208
ID_CHAPTER_4_END=1962377
ID_CHAPTER_4_NAME=00:27:06.208
ID_CHAPTER_ID=5
ID_CHAPTER_5_START=1962377
ID_CHAPTER_5_END=2322278
ID_CHAPTER_5_NAME=00:32:42.377
ID_CHAPTER_ID=6
ID_CHAPTER_6_START=2322278
ID_CHAPTER_6_END=2723554
ID_CHAPTER_6_NAME=00:38:42.278
ID_CHAPTER_ID=7
ID_CHAPTER_7_START=2723554
ID_CHAPTER_7_END=2988277
ID_CHAPTER_7_NAME=00:45:23.554
ID_CHAPTER_ID=8
ID_CHAPTER_8_START=2988277
ID_CHAPTER_8_END=3718464
ID_CHAPTER_8_NAME=00:49:48.277
ID_CHAPTER_ID=9
ID_CHAPTER_9_START=3718464
ID_CHAPTER_9_END=4179759
ID_CHAPTER_9_NAME=01:01:58.464
ID_CHAPTER_ID=10
ID_CHAPTER_10_START=4179759
ID_CHAPTER_10_END=4611732
ID_CHAPTER_10_NAME=01:09:39.759
ID_CHAPTER_ID=11
ID_CHAPTER_11_START=4611732
ID_CHAPTER_11_END=4911907
ID_CHAPTER_11_NAME=01:16:51.732
ID_CHAPTER_ID=12
ID_CHAPTER_12_START=4911907
ID_CHAPTER_12_END=5328656
ID_CHAPTER_12_NAME=01:21:51.907
ID_CHAPTER_ID=13
ID_CHAPTER_13_START=5328656
ID_CHAPTER_13_END=5927005
ID_CHAPTER_13_NAME=01:28:48.656
==> Found video stream: 0
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
======= VIDEO Format ======
biSize 81
biWidth 1280
biHeight 536
biPlanes 0
biBitCount 0
biCompression 875967048='H264'
biSizeImage 0
Unknown extra header dump: [1] [64] [0] [29] [ff] [e1] [0] [19] [67] [64] [0] [29] [ac] [d9] [80] [50] [4] [5f] [97] [1] [10] [0] [0] [3e] [90] [0] [b] [b8] [8] [f1] [83] [19] [a0] [1] [0] [5] [68] [e9] [7b] [2c] [8b]
===========================
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
==> Found audio stream: 1
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 8193 (0x2001)
Channels: 6
Samplerate: 48000
avg byte/sec: 192000
Block align: 1
bits/sample: 0
cbSize: 0
==========================================================================
[lavf] stream 1: audio (dca), -aid 0, -alang eng
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=eng
ID_SID_0_NAME=Forced
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (subrip), -sid 0, -slang eng, Forced
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=eng
[lavf] stream 3: subtitle (subrip), -sid 1, -slang eng
LAVF: 1 audio and 1 video streams found
LAVF: build 3546980
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x536 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:44 fourcc:0x34363248 size:1280x536 fps:23.976 ftime:=0.0417
Load subtitles in G:/Videos/
get_path('sub/') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/sub/'
ID_FILENAME=G:/Videos/DT.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=536
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.3881
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=5927.01
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=14
vo: win32: running at 1280x1024 with depth 32
<vo_directx><INFO>checking primary surface
<vo_directx><FORMAT PRIMARY>14 BGR32 supported
<vo_directx><INFO>testing supported overlay pixelformats
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>0 YV12 supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>1 I420 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>2 IYUV not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>3 YVU9 supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>4 YUY2 supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>5 UYVY supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>6 BGR8 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>7 RGB15 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>8 BGR15 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>9 RGB16 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>10 BGR16 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>11 RGB24 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>12 BGR24 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>13 RGB32 not supported
<vo_directx><FORMAT OVERLAY>14 BGR32 not supported
<vo_directx><INFO>Your card supports 4 of 15 overlayformats
<vo_directx><INFO>can mirror up down
<vo_directx><INFO>hardware supports overlay
Opening video filter: [ass auto=1]
[vo] query(Planar YV12) -> 3
[ass] auto-open
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
[ass] Raster: FreeType 2.4.10
[ass] Shaper: FriBidi 0.19.4 (SIMPLE)
[ass] Initialized
get_path('fonts') -> 'C:/Program Files/smplayer-portable/mplayer/mplayer/fonts'
[ass] Updating font cache
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.65.100 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
dec_audio: Allocating 1536000 + 131072 = 1667072 bytes for output buffer.
FFmpeg's libavcodec audio codec
INFO: libavcodec "dca" init OK!
[dca @ 012e10e0]Stream with high frequencies VQ coding


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[redxii]

Do all the videos have "INFO: libavcodec "dca" init OK!"

I don't have any MKVs that use "dca". I might need a sample if that is so..