ANN: Mplayer 1.0pre5

[alan]

i guess it must be for RC5 only as compilation process has changed, but it needs confirmation

[bastichelaar]

Don't know, I compiled it using the latest SDK.

[scoutme]

just a point: you said quicktime videos should be played through win32 dll... that's not true, since we can actually play them with mplayer on pdaxrom.

[alan]

i tried this 1pre5 on my 750 rc5.

I have a few pb

while i could play some files (divx3/mp3/25fps) of mine quite well with the mplayer version installed by default in rc5, i can't play them smoothly anymore... When i use the xrandr trick, the video gets stuck on what i guess is a key frame. Yet, i can use fast foward, and sometimes it plays some frames, but then once again gets stuck to the next key frame...

This pb doesn't occure without switching the resolution in X, but in this case, even when using the -framedrop switch, the video displays something like 5 fps...  

Outside of X, no way to play the video, only the audio part plays... It complains about not being able to open display   (bis)

I'm considering downgrading as the only solution for now, as it worked not perfectly but better than this before i tried an update  

Any idea ?

[cs_jacky]

Hey, mplayer 1.0pre5 use mp3lib to decode mp3 streams. You can use ffmpeg or libmad library to decode your audio.

To use ffmpeg, add "-ac ffmpg2" option. Use "-ac mad" for libmad. Both codec can play video smoothly and mad seems use less CPU.

[cs_jacky]

Hi bastichelaar,

Thanks for mplayer 1.0. It works fine for me. However, it will be better if it is compiled to include SDL video output (i.e., -vo sdl) to play video in console mode and ESD audio output (i.e., -ao esd) to here the sound raised by other programs such as gaim while I am watching video in X windows.  Thanks.

Edit: Oh... I need fbdev as well. The existing -vo cannot play the video and sound in sync.