Now that Barry has provided an Xorg package for Puppy 4, I have compiled the latest MPlayer 1.0rc2 with "extra" features.
Since several of these features depend on certain Xorg libraries, I now need to wait and see how Barry packages the different Xorg components before preparing the new MPlayer dotpet.
But thinking about it, since Puppy 4 already contains a version of MPlayer, maybe it's better just to give feedback to improve the standard release.
Since there is revived interest in Puppy 2.16, maybe I should recompile this version in 2.16?
Anyway, for the next compilation of MPlayer for Puppy4, these are the extra configuration options I would suggest:
--enable-xv
This enables the all-important xv video output setting, compatible with virtually all Xorg drivers.
--enable-xvmc
This enables video output setting for accelerated MPEG2 decoding under Xorg with nVidia/i810/Unichrome 3D drivers.
--enable-tv --enable-tv-v4l1 --enable-tv-v4l2 --enable-v4l2
This adds support for analogue TV tuner cards.
The configuration script looks for the presence of V4L/V4L2 device nodes to enable this feature. These can be created with the attached script V4L-makedevices.sh
Support for digital TV tuner cards is already enabled.
The MPlayer version that I compiled has quite a few more features, but these may be considered somewhat more specialised. The extra features are:
- limited DVD menu support
- IVTV ("PVR") tuner support
- Infrared remote control support
- External Linux codec support for Theora
- External Linux codec support for libamr (3gp audio codec)
- mencoder (encoding utility) with extra encoding libraries; faac, xvid, x264 and libamr.
And with all these extra features enabled the binaries are large: 9MB for mplayer and 9MB for mencoder.
I tried to compile mplayer against the shared ffmpeg libraries already in Puppy 4, but this failed. I even upgraded ffmpeg, but the compilation still failed.
Anyway, the MPlayer documentation says that MPlayer's performance suffers when compiled against a shared ffmpeg library, and certain functions are also lost. And I'm wondering why Puppy 4 has the (large) ffmpeg libraries. Is it just for PBcdripper?
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T2 also did not compile against the external ffmpeg, but I added these configure options to fix that:
--disable-libavcodec_a --disable-libavformat_a --disable-libavutil_a --disable-libpostproc_a
Doesn't my MPlayer have 'xv' output enabled? I just looked at my gmplayer preferences, and video output has choice of 'x11' or 'xvidix' -- I presume the first is the X11 shared memory system that Xvesa supports, and the second is xv.
--disable-libavcodec_a --disable-libavformat_a --disable-libavutil_a --disable-libpostproc_a
Doesn't my MPlayer have 'xv' output enabled? I just looked at my gmplayer preferences, and video output has choice of 'x11' or 'xvidix' -- I presume the first is the X11 shared memory system that Xvesa supports, and the second is xv.
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The vidix and cvidix video outputs are very specialised. They are compatible only with a limited range of graphics chips, and require a certain amount of setup.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/vidix.html
MPlayer is famous for its extensive range of video output options, and it's sometimes possible to compile and use a video output which is unique to your particular graphics device.
Generally, the optimum video output option for Xorg is xv.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/xv.html
I also enabled the "gl" video output, because MU says that xv won't work with ATi 3D drivers. I think someone else reported that xv fails to work with VIA Unichrome 3D, too.
As I browse through the MPlayer documentation, I suspect that these problems could probably be fixed by adding some extra setting to xorg.conf, for example
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/vidix.html
MPlayer is famous for its extensive range of video output options, and it's sometimes possible to compile and use a video output which is unique to your particular graphics device.
Generally, the optimum video output option for Xorg is xv.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/xv.html
I also enabled the "gl" video output, because MU says that xv won't work with ATi 3D drivers. I think someone else reported that xv fails to work with VIA Unichrome 3D, too.
As I browse through the MPlayer documentation, I suspect that these problems could probably be fixed by adding some extra setting to xorg.conf, for example
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Option "OverlayMem" ...
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Option "LinearAlloc" ...
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