[gentoo-user] mplayer output - funny characters on the terminal

[Mick]

Hi All,

I think that I might have asked this before.  When I launch mplayer some 
characters are not legible on the terminal that it was launched from.  Any 
idea why this happens and how to fix it?
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MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1066MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, 
Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Î~\εÏ~DάÏ~FÏ~AαÏ~Cη για x86 εÏ~@εξεÏ~AγαÏ~CÏ~Dή με Ï~DιÏ~B 
ακÏ~LλοÏ~EθεÏ~B εÏ~@εκÏ~DάÏ~CειÏ~B: MMX SSE
Î~QναÏ~@αÏ~AαγÏ~Iγή Ï~DοÏ~E /mnt/video/dvdrip-data/the illusionist.avi
Î~QναγνÏ~IÏ~AίÏ~CÏ~Dηκε αÏ~AÏ~Gείο Ï~DÏ~MÏ~@οÏ~E AVI!
VIDEO:  [XVID]  688x400  24bpp  23.976 fps  438.6 kbps (53.5 kbyte/s)
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Î~Fνοιγμα αÏ~@οκÏ~IδικοÏ~@οιηÏ~Dή βίνÏ~Dεο: [ffmpeg] 
FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
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Î~Fνοιγμα αÏ~@οκÏ~IδικοÏ~@οιηÏ~Dή ήÏ~GοÏ~E: [mp3lib] MPEG 
layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 12000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Î~UκκίνηÏ~Cη αναÏ~@αÏ~AαγÏ~IγήÏ~B...
VDec: αίÏ~DηÏ~Cη για εÏ~@ιλογή vo - 688 x 400 
(Ï~@Ï~AοÏ~DεινÏ~Lμενο csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Î~W αναλογία Ï~DηÏ~B Ï~DαινίαÏ~B είναι 1.72:1 - 
Ï~@Ï~AοκλιμάκÏ~IÏ~Cη για Ï~Dην διÏ~LÏ~AθÏ~IÏ~Cη Ï~DηÏ~B 
εμÏ~FάνιÏ~CηÏ~B Ï~DηÏ~B Ï~DαινίαÏ~B.
VO: [xv] 688x400 => 688x400 Planar YV12
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Regards,
Mick