MPlayer-1.0rc2 + mencoder Feb 2008
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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?
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?
VDPAU or NVIDIA ION support?
tempestuous,
Thanks for your help.
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.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?
Thanks for your help.
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Yes, I will do a "cutting-edge" MPlayer when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.maddmike wrote:Do you have any plans to update mplayer for puppy to support hardware MPEG4 (H.264) decoding?
I might do a "cutting-edge" ffmpeg to match it.
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.maddmike wrote:My next plan is to replace the noisy Pentium 4 PC with an Intel Atom/nvidia Ion fanless system.
release ETA
When's that?when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.
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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.
ttuuxxx
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.
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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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.
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.
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,
clarf
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,
clarf
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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).
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).
dvb does not work
Hello,
when I type this:
I get this:
and nothing happens
when I type
it works fine and I can watch the stream
Can someone help me?
when I type this:
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mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc dvb://arte
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Playing dvb://arte.
dvb_tune Freq: 10743000
TS file format detected.
when I type
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szap -r arte
cat dev/dvb/adpater0/dvr0 > file.asf
mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc file.asf
Can someone help me?
Dear TempestuousI might do a "cutting-edge" ffmpeg to match it.
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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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
then in the console type fixmenus and then restart jwm.
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;
libaa.so.1 missing in Puppy 4.2.1
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!
thx!
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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.
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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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 & .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 &
...
Fwiw /
MHHP
[color=green]Celeron 2.8 GHz, 1 GB, i82845, many ptns, modes 12, 13
Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
Slackos & 214X, ... and Q6xx
[color=darkred]Nämen, vaf....[/color] [color=green]ln -s /dev/null MHHP[/color]
Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
Slackos & 214X, ... and Q6xx
[color=darkred]Nämen, vaf....[/color] [color=green]ln -s /dev/null MHHP[/color]
very late reply, but as it is of general interest: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..
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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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.
Example:
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.
Mark
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.
Example:
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gmplayer -vo xv -loop 1000 -x 1920 -y 1080 -zoom -fs -vf-add unsharp=l3x3:1 test.avi
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.
Mark
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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!
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!