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Strange. I got everything to play just fine on my 5d mark 3 through hdmi. Playback in color. I downloaded the pre-built version from here, http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7122.0

Most likely your monitor is cropping the video! I've just tested the HDMI playback on a cheap small field monitor, the monitor has an options of 480p and 1080i. When I watch it in 480p mode the playback is cropped and I don't get the weird pixel flicker on the top and the bottom of the frame. But if I playback with full HD mode it scales it whole video to fit in the screen, and I see the artifacts. So far I tested the HDMI playback on the field monitors Lilliput an TV logic. Moreover I run couple of tests on a broadcast reference monitor set, finally I tested it on my home TV Samsung Smart, every full HD device give this weird flicker. The exception is the Lilliput monitor that crops  the video in a 480p mode. Also I've noticed that the playback with HDMI is a tiny bit slower that in camera playback. So this is it so far. Hope that will be useful for further development.

Here is the new image.

which camera?
when you rotate the wheel (on top) does the video file change?

5d mark iii. Yes, the video file changes if I scroll the top wheel and the grey bar dissappears but there are strange flickering on the top and bottom of the display, if you take a look at the image I posted above you will see pixels and lines on the top and the bottom of the image. Moreover greyscale playback slows down if viewed with HDMI.

Hi, g3ggo! Here are some results I've got.
1) HDMI playback doesn't crash the camera, but it doesn't display the recorded raw file either. Here is what I get when playback the file with HDMI

There is some strange playback behind the grey bar.
2) Pressing "info" or "loupe" buttons crash the camera while recording raw with HDMI and without.
I used latest ML build 2013-11-16 5d mark III

I will extensively  test the HDMI this days and get back with a report. Can' wait to try 

Hi, g3ggo! Any news on HDMI?

did you try it?
the whole effort of the ML crew (in total literally 0,5 full time devlopers) is useless if there is no testing from those who have the setup

The effort of ML's 0.5 full time developer kicks canon's ass though! The playback was the first thing I tested, and it crashes the cam.  If you solve and post it in nightly builds I will be first to try the HDMI playback support!

i made a lot of changes to mlv_play:

* when using mlv_rec and RAW recording is enabled, pressing PLAY will automatically start mlv_play
* you now can cycle through all videos using your scroll wheel (on top)
* alternatively you can open the OSD with Q and select < or > to jump to previous or next file
* when pressing INFO, the top bar will toggle

you can download the latest version of mlv_play along with mlv_rec in the mlv_rec thread.
just scroll down to "pre-built" binaries in the main post and download the package.

Any HDMI playback support? that is most important thing on  set! Now the whole idea of using ML with a crew is useless unles there is HDMI feed to directors monitor, focus puller and DIT monitors.please please can you address this ussue!

Can't tell for sure if it is good for critical focus pulling...but sometimes people I work with miss the focus even with hd monitors, and not because they don't know what they do...it is just hard, especially on a wide open lens with a lot of movement in the frame... personally I pull focus equally bad weather it is a canon screen or red epics monitor...this is one of the reasons to have a decent playback...
Generaly, considering the  price  I'am happy with my monitor.

Hi! We used Lilliput on numerious commercial productions and it is fine. One thing though, the knobs on the right of the monitor sometimes do not react as expected, so calibrating the monitor might be tricky sometimes. But may be it is just our particular monitor that has this thing.
The bad news is that if you plug HDMI in you camera with ML and try to playback the raw video the camera will crash...This is the only thing that prevents me of using ML for production. I hope some day ML team will fix that.

Thank you so much mrnv45! I'am glad there is a workaround. I use the latest build. Hope that problem will be fixed someday.

Hi, just installed ML! And right away I ran in to a problem. If I press "Loupe" (zoom) button while recording, camera freezes and I can't even turn it off. Is that a bug? Or may be I have some wrong settings? Please help me!