MPlayer-1.0rc2 + mencoder Feb 2008

Audio editors, music players, video players, burning software, etc.
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#46 Post by tempestuous »

algyzas,
What options did you enable with your MPlayer package? Without this information, we're completely in the dark as to why we should use your version.

MPlayer has a plethora of additional options, some are automatically enabled with the configure script, but many need to be explicitly enabled. And of course, some of these options require additional libraries.

For example, quite a few people on this forum use MPlayer as a webcam viewer, but unless you enabled the Video4Linux (V4l/V4L2) input, this option will be disabled.

Or if you didn't enable the "xv" output option, Pentium1/Pentium2 users will have stuttering DVD playback.

It's true that my MPlayer package is 18 months old, but the only significant change to MPlayer since then has been MPEG4 hardware acceleration support. Did you enable one of the MPEG4 acceleration features, such as VDPAU?

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VDPAU or NVIDIA ION support?

#47 Post by maddmike »

tempestuous,
It's true that my MPlayer package is 18 months old, but the only significant change to MPlayer since then has been MPEG4 hardware acceleration support. Did you enable one of the MPEG4 acceleration features, such as VDPAU?
Do you have any plans to update mplayer for puppy to support hardware MPEG4 (H.264) decoding? My home theater uses your mplayer and lirc packages (running on 4.0 with the 2.6.21 kernel). My next plan is to replace the noisy Pentium 4 PC with an Intel Atom/nvidia Ion fanless system. The Ion chipset has hardware H.264 decoding, which allows 1080p HD playback. The Atom CPU by itself can't handle it. I think the only missing piece is a puppy-friendly mplayer that supports the nvidia hardware.

Thanks for your help.

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#48 Post by tempestuous »

maddmike wrote:Do you have any plans to update mplayer for puppy to support hardware MPEG4 (H.264) decoding?
Yes, I will do a "cutting-edge" MPlayer when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.
I might do a "cutting-edge" ffmpeg to match it.
maddmike wrote:My next plan is to replace the noisy Pentium 4 PC with an Intel Atom/nvidia Ion fanless system.
Yes, an excellent choice for for Home Media system. And yes, the onboard Intel video chips typically associated with Atom systems just don't cut it. nVIDIA is the go for video performance.

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release ETA

#49 Post by maddmike »

when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.
When's that?

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#50 Post by tempestuous »

The last I heard was that Barry wants to make uPup library-compatible with Ubuntu Karmic Koala
so according to Google, that means October.

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#51 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hi tempestuous why wait for series 5 when 4.3 is almost at RC1 status?
The repo mplayer was/is broke since day one it was uploaded, would be nice to have something small but working out of the box.
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#52 Post by tempestuous »

There's some self-interest involved.
I'm playing with the idea of developing a multimedia device based using an embedded operating system, and I was going to strip back Ubuntu for various reasons relating to the SDK available for the embedded hardware ... but when I heard about uPup I thought that it was worthwhile synchronising my project with this.
I want to wait to make my OS fully Karmic Koala/uPup compatible - that means GCC, glibc, and GTK2.
And there may be some kernel optimisations for my hardware, too.

All in all, a bit of work. I have a busy job these days, so I don't want to go through the exercise twice.

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#53 Post by clarf »

Hi tempestous,

I recently created a smplayer pet (mplayer frontend) that includes the mplayer-1.0rc2-071007.pet file, I suppose it´s a older pet from the official repositories and not includes any feature included in your recent compiled mplayer version. It doesn´t have support for any AMD extension to the x86 instruction set either.

I want to include your mplayer version to smplayer, but I want to know if you compiled it with 3DNow! support and other AMD extensions. If not, then It could be good to have two mplayer versions that support AMD and Intel (you don´t mention it in your first post) extended instructions and speedup video processing for that architecture.

Thank you for the attention pleased,
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#54 Post by tempestuous »

I compiled this version of MPlayer with runtime-cpu detection.
If you launch it from the commandline you should see that your CPU is detected ...
but don't expect any noticeable performance improvement from CPU optimisation.

Far more significant performance will be gained by ensuring that you are using MPlayer's xv video output under Xorg (not xvesa).

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#55 Post by clarf »

Many thanks tempestous, it´s seems what I was searching for.

clarf

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dvb does not work

#56 Post by maxxx »

Hello,

when I type this:

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mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc dvb://arte
I get this:

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Playing dvb://arte.
dvb_tune Freq: 10743000
TS file format detected.
and nothing happens

when I type

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szap -r arte
cat dev/dvb/adpater0/dvr0 > file.asf
mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc file.asf
it works fine and I can watch the stream

Can someone help me?

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#57 Post by maxxx »

It works when I run mplayer with:

mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc dvb://

AND generated a channels.conf with scan -x 0 -t 1 ...
AND did not edit the first line in channels.conf

Now an old man can watch tv with his old computer,
thanks tempestuous for your work

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#58 Post by Peterm321 »

I might do a "cutting-edge" ffmpeg to match it.
Dear Tempestuous

If you are willing could you compile it with the dependencies incorporated?

I had attempted to use the last posted ffmpeg however it demanded an awful lot of dependencies. When I finally gathered the dependencies or made the appropriate symlinks it then crashed due to symbol lookup failure.

Maybe puppy versions later than "dingo" don't have this problem?

Anyway I gave up, instead I found the latest hot off the press WIN32 version (which is a WIN32 console program) works well with WINE. There is a 2007 version of ffmpeg (I think it was on a the 4.1 retro distribution) but the latest versions of ffmpeg have recent work on AAC encoding.

thanks

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#59 Post by abushcrafter »

when the menu is refreshed that edit gets lost so do this instead:
Replace /usr/local/share/applications/mplayer.desktop contents with this for the menu entry

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MPlayer
GenericName=Multimedia player
Comment=Multimedia player
Comment[de]=Multimedia-Player
Comment[es]=Reproductor multimedia
Comment[fr]=Lecteur multimédia
Comment[it]=Lettore multimediale
Icon=mplayer.xpm
TryExec=gmplayer
Exec=gmplayer -msglevel all=-1 %U &
Terminal=false
Categories=GTK;Player;
MimeType=application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/sdp;application/smil;application/x-smil;application/streamingmedia;application/x-streamingmedia;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/vnd.rn-realmedia-vbr;audio/aac;audio/x-aac;audio/m4a;audio/x-m4a;audio/mp1;audio/x-mp1;audio/mp2;audio/x-mp2;audio/mp3;audio/x-mp3;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpegurl;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/mpg;audio/x-mpg;audio/rn-mpeg;audio/scpls;audio/x-scpls;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/wav;audio/x-pn-windows-pcm;audio/x-realaudio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-pls;audio/x-wav;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/x-mpeg2;video/msvideo;video/x-msvideo;video/quicktime;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/x-ms-afs;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-ms-wmx;video/x-ms-wvxvideo;video/x-avi;video/x-fli;video/x-theora;video/x-matroska;
then in the console type fixmenus and then restart jwm.

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libaa.so.1 missing in Puppy 4.2.1

#60 Post by Dromeno »

I have installed mplayer in puppy 4.2.1 but it will not open because lib.aa.so.1 is missing. Can anyone please provide a download link?

thx!

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#61 Post by tempestuous »

aalib (ascii art) video output support is one of the many options possible when compiling MPlayer, but one which I deliberately disabled with this version of MPlayer because I consider it of very little practical use.

So you must be using some other version of MPlayer, and your query is not directly relevant to this thread.

Please post your query in another forum thread relevant to that version, or better still, install this version.

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#62 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

abushcrafter wrote:when the menu is refreshed that edit gets lost so do this instead:
Replace /usr/local/share/applications/mplayer.desktop contents with this for the menu entry
...
...
Exec=gmplayer -msglevel all=-1 %U &
...
...
That & in mplayer.desktop crashes jwm -p (used in all the jwm-config-manager scripts), at least in 214X, better to make a run-script that contains the & :).

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#63 Post by MU »

sketchman wrote: Mplayer starts fine, but won't play a video in "xv" mode. the only mode that works is "x11". The video will play fine in this mode, but only at its normal size. Ctrl+F makes the window fullscreen, but the video remains the same and just gets surrounded by black space..
very late reply, but as it is of general interest:

using "x11", you have no hardware-scaling, but can force software-scaling.
This however requires a fast CPU.

Run mplayer like this:

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gmplayer -vo x11 -fs -x 1024 -y 768 -zoom test.avi
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#64 Post by MU »

Watching movies downloaded from the web on a 52'' TV, is not such a great pleasure.
Movies are scaled from 720x576 pixel (or less) to 1980x1080.

As a result, hair looks "filthy", not very detailed.

You can enhance the result, by adding a sharpening filter.
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gmplayer -vo xv -loop 1000 -x 1920 -y 1080 -zoom -fs -vf-add unsharp=l3x3:1 test.avi
The "unsharp" switch is not well known, and you cannot activate it in the mplayer-gui.

This will scale and show it fullscreen, and sharpen the picture.
Suddenly, you see more details, especially hair looks better.
Other parts of the picture might look less good, e.g. diagonal lines now have a "staircase" effect. But overall it looks more pleasant to me.

Do not use the filter on HDTV-Movies, they are sharp already, and the filter uses so much CPU power, so that the movie will drop too many frames.

My system: Athlon 2x2.6 Ghz, Ati Radeon 4850 wit Catalyst 9.11, Samsung LE52B750.

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#65 Post by taca0 »

tempestuous,

Your mplayer version plays all my videos But.. I have a problem with drivers ... I can not use xv drivers because crash my pc . I need to use X11 but the one that you have not have scaling so , How I change that on the player ? to make the player use only X11 driver with scaling ?

Let me know if understand!

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