Christopher James Huff wrote:

> In article <3fce2444@news.povray.org>, Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>
> wrote:
> 
>> If the image disortion is 1/4 black, it may be a 4-byte RBG versus
>> 3-byte RGB problem, notably when encoding from non-YUV sources (i.e.
>> not jpeg). I once wrote a very dirty patch to make PNG -> MPEG encoding
>> work but it will not apply to recent versions.
> 
> Great...I've been trying to encode from PNG.
> 
Try encoding from multiple jpegs. If the problem persists, it is not 
related to the mentioned colorspace convention bug. Otherwise it 
probably is. 

I'm sorry for not testing myself but I currently lack a recent version 
and am just too busy with other things. 

>> Hard to tell more from your unspecific description "won't play properly".
> 
> Starts playing ok, except that the right 1/4 of the image is black and
> the actual contents of the movie are squashed into a square on the left
> side, and about 1/4 of the way into the movie it sometimes stops
> playing. Playback is jerkier than it should be.
> 
Reminds me of the color conv problem. 
I had color disortion in addition to the 1/4 screen problem. 
Maybe I can look into that at the weekend; stay tuned :)

Wolfgang

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