Comment 8 for bug 263153

Reinhard, thank you for your response on the devel-discuss list RE my discussion on upgrading FFMPEG. In relation to that I'd like to note that my SVN compile of mplayer which has static links to ffmpeg SVN plays the file no problems as per below:

nullack@PPP:/mnt/vault/Film/Tests$ mplayer IMAG0002.ASF
MPlayer dev-SVN-r27584-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Playing IMAG0002.ASF.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [MP4S] 352x288 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] Could not grab port 280.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 24000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 96.7 kbit/25.17% (ratio: 12082->48000)
Selected audio codec: [ffadpcmimawav] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WAV IMA ADPCM audio)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 24000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.22:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 352x288 => 352x288 Planar YV12
[mpeg4 @ 0xc62d80]slice end not reached but screenspace end (0 left 000000, score= -3)
[mpeg4 @ 0xc62d80]concealing 396 DC, 396 AC, 396 MV errors
A: 4.9 V: 4.9 A-V: 0.009 ct: 0.019 142/142 16% 1% 0.4% 17 0

Exiting... (End of file)

When I try to view the file in Totem using Intrepid's version of the ffmpeg gstreamer plugin, I get massive artifacting / colour issues. I would speculate this is probably fixed in the latest ffmpeg gstreamer plugin version.

This obviously brings us back to the need for upgrading ffmpeg as per my mail list email. I offer you my full support with testing ffmpeg upgrades and I can see what I can do to rally some others to it as well.