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I've added "--sout-x264-tune=zerolatency" to my transcoding chain and while my resultant videos play fine in VLC, in other players I've tried they are mostly just green (or black) with a narrow strip of discernable video along the top. Any ideas about why this would happen or how to address this issue?

Maybe the other player does not support whatever the profile properly?

This forum is probably not the best place to get expertise about competing players, TBH.

I'm not to worried about the other players, but I was curious about the green result I was seeing in them. My problem was that I couldn't transcode very small videos without including the "zerolatency" option. I've since found that another solution is to use very small framecounts for frametype lookahead (sout-x264-lookahead=5) or to disable mb-tree ratecontrol altogether. I don't get green videos with these fixes.

zerolatency is an option that modifies quite a bit the stream type. That's probably why.