SMPlayer - a new frontend for MPlayer [Archive] - Page 3

rvm

15th March 2007, 02:44

Changes 0.2.26:
* New fullscreen mode. The code has been rewritten. Previously I used a different widget (window) for fullscreen. Now I use the main window (hidding all widgets except the video window).
The most important: now if you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen the control widget will appear (see screenshot). If you move it to the top of the screen the menu bar will appear.
And now opening another window (open dialog, video equalizer, the preferences dialog...) doesn't need to exit from fullscreen.
But as I said the code in completely new, so please test it and report bugs.
* Added an option who people with wide screens can find useful: 16:9 letterbox. If you play for instance a 2.35:1 movie, this option will add black borders to fit 16:9. The interesting thing is that subtitles will appear in the bottom border.

Screenshot:
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/6928/fullscreenmu4.th.jpg (http://img122.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fullscreenmu4.jpg)

Download (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/download_en.php)

BTW, I've already seen that now (on Windows) entering and specially exiting from fullscreen mode is not so smooth as before. I'll try to fix it.

Ah, I forgot... would you like to see smplayer running in a different language? smplayer doesn't have any option to select the language (in linux it's not usual to have it, just use the user language if available). In the latest zip I added 3 *.bat files: smplayer_de.bat, smplayer_es.bat and smplayer_sk.bat. Double click on any of them, and the messages will be in German, Spanish or Slovak.

HeadBangeR77

15th March 2007, 03:37

I already love you (in the pure sense :D) for control widgets in full-screen mode and the letterboxing! Gonna test within the next few days.

cheers,
HDBR77

PS. Nice macroblocks on the screen-shot there! ;)

DSP8000

15th March 2007, 06:25

rvm

15th March 2007, 20:10

Tnx. for the updated builds.
You may want to add a check for running multiple instances of the player as well. eg. If the player is running & I right click on a file & select "open file with smplayer" then open the file in the running player but do not open a new one.

Yes I know. But it seems easy but it's not. I mean, the 2nd instance has to communicate with the 1st one (to tell it the file you want to open). That's what I don't know yet. I have to find out how I can do it with Qt.

Also, how do you output to RGB or YUV colorspace?

I don't know. You may take a look at the mplayer manual (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html) to see if you find something about.

rvm

15th March 2007, 20:38

Delerue

16th March 2007, 10:02

How to make translations

Anyone interested in translating smplayer to another language?
I've just written this small document (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?p=198&mforum=smplayer) that explains how to do it.

I'm trying to translate to brazilian portuguese, and want to know what '(sp)' means in this kind of blue comment: '(sp)(new line)'.

rvm

16th March 2007, 16:57

I think the (sp) means that at that point there's a blank space.

pinkie_1

16th March 2007, 20:31

how do you output to RGB or YUV colorspace?
Step 1 :
-sws 9
# switch to Lanczos scaler instead of bicubic one
Step 2 :
-vf-add scale=:::0:10::::1
# make use of the built-in software scaler
# for interlaced content use scale=::1:0:10::::1
Step 3 :
-vf-add format=format
# enforces the desired output colorspace
# for a list of supported formats use -vf format=fmt=help
# -vf-add rgb2bgr will also work (but in a different manner)
# for a really funky output try -vf-add rgb2bgr=swap

e.g. from this command line :
-sws 9 -vf-add scale=:::0:10::::1,format=rgb32
results this MPlayer output :
[swscaler @ 00C4F1C0]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter
[swscaler @ 00C4F1C0]No accelerated colorspace conversion found
VO: [gl] 576x432 => 576x432 RGBA [zoom]

Important :
---if format is set to be rgb24/bgr24, then SwS and final colorspaces will match
---format=rgb32/rgba --> SwS csp=bgr and final csp=rgba
---format=bgr32/bgra --> SwS csp=rgb and final csp=bgra

DSP8000

17th March 2007, 08:43

Thanks pinkie_1, I'll give it a go.
I'm just trying to find a way how to play DVD's with mplayer on a very slow PC.
The problem is, when I play them with default settings from smplayer or MPUI the picture is all pink, green, distorted...
I think there's a problem with the graphic card.
The only thing that works is MPC, but only if I uncheck "enable planar ..." in the default MPC's MPEG decoder.

Any tips or suggestions are welcome :)

pinkie_1

17th March 2007, 18:17

how to play DVD's with mplayer on a very slow PC.
Just how slow is that machine ?
Nowadays an Athlon T-bird @ 1 GHz is ancient...
Then again, compare that T-bird with a P2 @ 450 MHz. :)

On topic :
I. try -vo winvidix; if it actually works consider yourself a very lucky person...

II. use the following command line to get some info :
-sws 1 -vo directx -msglevel vo=9
You'll find out this way which overlays are supported on that machine. Then do some trial&error like this :
-sws 1 -vo directx -vf scale=::1:0:::::1,format=format
on every supported overlay.
Find out which one works correctly and decide which one is the most "visually pleasing".
If things run smoothly so far, try again the last example of command line, wiping instead the -sws 1 part.
(additionally, you can also give it a go to the -noslices switch, hoping that it will speed up things a bit)

Summa summarum : on very slow machines -according to your own characterization- avoid stuff like gl/gl2 output, Lanczos scaler, any postprocessing a.s.o. It is even better to run MPlayer under a linux environment...
(yeah, just an innocent suggestion) :p

DSP8000

18th March 2007, 04:15

@ pinkie_1,

thank you for the very detailed information. I'll do some testing today. It is a P3 550 mHz PC with 384MB ram, my daughter's PC. All she does with it is just watching DVD's & listening some mp3's & audio CD's.
I've had Ubuntu for a while on the PC but it was pain to go thru all of the repositories just to enable playback on commercial DVD's & mp3's.
Once again I'll do a fresh install on XP customized with nLite, stripped down & light on resources & maybe she'll be able to enjoy watching DVD's @25FPS & full color. If that doesn't work then I've got some plants that are looking for a PC based home:p

Tnx. for your input, appreciated:)
I'll let you know with the final outcome

rvm

20th March 2007, 03:12

0.2.34 available for download (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/download_en.php)

Since the last announcement here there's been a lot of internal changes but only a few visible ones. Most important:
* Added the Italian translation.
* smplayer accepts urls dragged from a web browser. In linux it works well (tested with Opera, Konqueror and Firefox). In windows I tried with Opera and Internet Explorer but it seems that none of them is able to drag links (in the page, not in the address bar) to other application. Anyway, if anyone want to test it here (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/streams.html) is a test page with some links.
* Now the video window should not flicker when opening menus and using directx:noaccel or gl/gl2.
* Key shortcuts are now saved and loaded from the configuration file. That means that key shortcuts can be changed. But for the moment it can only be done by modifying directly the configuration file. In the future there'll be a dialog for doing it easily.
In windows the config file is C:\Documents and Settings\Your_User\Application Data\RVM\smplayer.ini

DSP8000

20th March 2007, 05:28

rvm, tnx. for the updated build.
I really start to like this player & the fact that uses so little resources makes it a winner for me. I did some tests & clearly smplayer does the trick for me. When watching DVD's or x264 videos or QT the CPU usage barely goes more than 25% :), but the same videos played with MPC & ffdshow go well over 60%.
I like MPC as well but I've noticed the same x264 video stops on certain spots, but plays well in smplayer. btw. this is x264 version of Cars encoded with MeGUI in AE-MaxQuality deblocking disabled.
I've got couple of suggestions for you:
1. Maybe you can rearrange the buttons on the player & put them below the seek bar(all buttons)
2. Make'em a bit smaller & line'em up
3. Add an option for custom buttons
4. Add an option for custom rearranging the play panel(similar to fb2k)
5. Add an option for a custom logo(same as in MPC)
6. Make the start up screen size of smplayer smaller or size by the custom logo
7. Volume starts at 99 instead of 50

Let me know if you need a mock up sample;)

Oh, about my daughter's PC, I ended up giving it to a friend of mine(he's about 50) & he'll be using it just for browsing the net.

Delerue

20th March 2007, 06:56

A couple of things:

-Changing the channel configuration sometimes resets the volume to 50%.

-SMPlayer (or MPlayer?) can't recognize the video channels (if it's stereo, 5.1, etc.), and automatically set it correctly.

-Same thing to interlaced videos.

-Can't change DVD chapters by clicking in the 'Next' button.

-Can't go to DVD main menu.

-DVD subtitle seems to be a little transparent, because changes its color a little as background movie changes its own color.

-'DVD', in the 'Open' menu could be 'DVD from drive...', don't you think?

-Still can't open a DVD from folder. But I can open a DVD disc using the 'DVD from folder...' option (only to the root; to 'VIDEO_TS' no donuts...). Really odd, I know.

pinkie_1

20th March 2007, 23:26

rvm, thanks for your efforts.

Two suggestions :
1. it would nice to keep the trend you've imposed with your early releases, i.e give the chance to use the good ol' style of unpack&play (no bloated installer)
2.In windows the config file is C:\Documents and Settings\Your_User\Application Data\RVM\smplayer.ini
Why not in the install directory ?

rvm

21st March 2007, 04:01

Why not in the install directory ?

It's where the Qt library stores it.

The install directory may not writable by all users, and moreover every user has to have his own config.

Opera (and other applications) also store its stuff there.

A couple of things:

-Changing the channel configuration sometimes resets the volume to 50%.

I realized that when changing the audio track the volume goes up. But I think it's a mplayer bug.

-SMPlayer (or MPlayer?) can't recognize the video channels (if it's stereo, 5.1, etc.), and automatically set it correctly.

I don't know if this is possible.

-Same thing to interlaced videos.
I think mplayer doesn' have any option to try to autodetect interlaced videos. One way would be to use the filter yadif for all videos, that filter provides very good quality, but uses a lot of CPU, and for non interlaced videos would be a unnecessary waste.

-Can't go to DVD main menu.

I'm afraid mplayer doesn't support dvd menus. They are working on it. I recently tried the dvdnav (in linux, I think there's no build for windows with that option compiled) and it does something, menus appear, but it still doesn't work well.

-'DVD', in the 'Open' menu could be 'DVD from drive...', don't you think?

Yes.

-Still can't open a DVD from folder. But I can open a DVD disc using the 'DVD from folder...' option (only to the root; to 'VIDEO_TS' no donuts...). Really odd, I know.

Yes , really strange. Do you have set the proper drive in the preferences dialog?

rvm

22nd March 2007, 01:44

smplayer 0.2.36 (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/download_en.php)

Important changes:
* Added the French translation. Not finished yet.
* Single instance. Added an option in preferences (Misc tab) to use only one instance of smplayer. If you open another one, maybe double-clicking on a video, the first instance will play that video. The 2nd one will silently die.

Some notes about this option:
* It's disabled by default. If you want to test it go to Preferences->Misc and check "Use only one running instance of smplayer".
* It will listen to a port (configurable) so it can communicate to other instances. The problem is that probably the Windows firewall will try to block it. It will ask you. Leave unblocked or this feature won't work.
* The running instance tries to raise above all other windows, but it seems that this doesn't work on Windows. (I'll try to fix it)

There's a potential problem: if the port is already used by another application, smplayer may hang on startup (it's not really hung, but the window is not visible). This happens if the server listening to that port doesn't respond anything to what smplayer says.

KornX

22nd March 2007, 12:44

very nice player,
but why do i have to install it?
Could you please provide an archive also?

KornX

rvm

22nd March 2007, 16:47

Ok, for the next full release (0.3.0) I will provide a zip archive, too.

BTW...

* The running instance tries to raise above all other windows, but it seems that this doesn't work on Windows. (I'll try to fix it)

Fixed in 0.2.37 (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/windows/download_en.php) :)

KornX

22nd March 2007, 17:30

ah thx great...
any schedule?

KornX

rvm

23rd March 2007, 03:04

Soon, very soon. No more than a week.
From now on I'm not going to add new features, just bug fixes. I don't want to release 0.3.0 (make a lot of packages, upload them...) and just after that find out that it has some serious bug.

vio_man

23rd March 2007, 23:52

I used smplayer for the first time here is what I found:

- I can't load AVI movies with subtitles when selecting a system font. The movie only loads if select TTF font.

- I can't see any option to change SRT subtitles size and color. Also the subtitles seems to be transparent, because they get the background color on some areas, especially with vivid colors.

- Some times when pressing escape to switch from full screen to window, the window position gets messed up like aligned at left of the screen.

rvm

24th March 2007, 17:13

- I can't load AVI movies with subtitles when selecting a system font. The movie only loads if select TTF font.

This option does not work if the mplayer build you're using has not been compiled with fontconfig support.

- I can't see any option to change SRT subtitles size and color. Also the subtitles seems to be transparent, because they get the background color on some areas, especially with vivid colors.

Preferences->Subtitles and check the option "Use SSA/ASS library". You can change the color there too.

But for this to work mplayer must have support for the -ass option.

- Some times when pressing escape to switch from full screen to window, the window position gets messed up like aligned at left of the screen.

Yes, I think you found a bug. I'll try to fix it.

Edit: fixed in 0.2.40.

rvm

29th March 2007, 00:45

Version 0.2.44 released (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/windows/download_en.php)

I didn't make Windows updates of previous versions because I've found and important problem which occurs under Windows, and I was trying to fix it. That problem is explained here (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=75&mforum=smplayer).

Main changes since the last announcement here:

* New translations: Simplified-Chinese, Russian and Hungarian. And updates for Italian, German and Slovak.
* The dvd and cdrom devices have no default. If the user tries to play a dvd before configure it, a message box will show requesting him to configure it. After that the preferences dialog will be shown, with the drive's tab selected.
* Mouse left click and double click are configurable. For now only by editing the configuration file (look for left_click_function and double_click_function). Valid values are any of the key functions (the list of key functions appears at the beginning of the smplayer log).
Example: left_click_function=PAUSE
Currently there's a problem: double click executes also the left click function.
* A new interesting feature: remember, smplayer install a server to listen a port (8000 by default) initially to communicate to other instances. But now that server will understand some more commands. You can connect with it with "telnet localhost 8000" and type "help".
For now you can pass any of the key functions. For instance the command "function pause", will pause the movie that smplayer is playing. "function fullscreen" will toggle fullscreen mode. You can get a list of all available functions with "list functions".
This feature will allow other people to write small programs or scripts to control smplayer remotely (from another computer) or from a remote control.

The next release will be 0.3.0.

rvm

29th March 2007, 17:30

Full packages for version 0.3.0 available for download

New full packages for smplayer 0.3.0, with installer, are available:

You can get them here (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185512).

The packages available are the following:
smplayer-0.3.0.tar.gz The source code.
smplayer_0.3.0_full_setup.exe The full package for Windows. Includes everything needed: smplayer.exe, shared libraries and a copy of mplayer. The version of mplayer is the same that was included in 0.2.0. The size of this package is about 9 MB.
smplayer_windows_0.3.0-without_mplayer.zip. A zip file that contains smplayer and Qt shared libraries. It doesn't include mplayer. It's about 5 MB.
smplayer_windows_0.3.0-without_mplayer.7z The same as the previous package but in a 7z archive. About 4 MB.
Packages for linux:
smplayer-0.3.0-rvm.0.src.rpm Source rpm. Can be used to create a rpm package.

vio_man

29th March 2007, 19:34

I change the system font for subtitles to Arial, size 22 but it does not remembers the font size. It always sets it to size 10.

rvm

29th March 2007, 23:32

The system font only uses the font name. Font style and size from the font dialog are not used.

The size is set in the "Scale" option which is just below. If you want to use a fixed size of 22, select "No autoscale" and 22 in "Scale".

Delerue

30th March 2007, 03:14

Fonts still semi-transparent. DVD discs still not running. Still can't change DVD chapters by clicking in the 'Next' button. And still can't open a DVD from folder. :(

rvm

30th March 2007, 17:10

Semi-transparent fonts: try SSA/ASS subtitles.
DVD: could you paste the mplayer log when you try to play a DVD?

Delerue

4th April 2007, 04:05

First of all, I would like to congratulate you one more time. You're doing an amazing job, man. The adjustable volume by mouse wheel was a great thing. And the interface is getting better and better. ;)

Semi-transparent fonts: try SSA/ASS subtitles.

No way. Using this option makes the player stops when a subtitle comes.

DVD: could you paste the mplayer log when you try to play a DVD?

C:/Arquivos de programas/smplayer/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -wid 3539822 -colorkey 131586 -monitoraspect 1.33333 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp Unicode -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device D:/Downloads/Filmes/ZUZU_ANGEL/VIDEO_TS -chapter 1 -dvdangle 1 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add eq2 dvd://1

stderr: libdvdread: Could not open D:/Downloads/Filmes/ZUZU_ANGEL/VIDEO_TS with libdvdcss.
stderr: libdvdread: Can't open D:/Downloads/Filmes/ZUZU_ANGEL/VIDEO_TS for reading
stderr: libdvdread: Device D:/Downloads/Filmes/ZUZU_ANGEL/VIDEO_TS inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
stderr:
stderr:
stderr: MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: open_stream
stderr: - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
stderr: Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
stderr: disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
stderr: - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
stderr: It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
stderr: gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
stderr: DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
stderr: won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
MPlayer dev-SVN-r22848-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
Setting process priority: abovenormal
108 audio & 229 video codecs

Playing dvd://1.
ID_DVD_TITLES=7
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_CHAPTERS=14
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=9.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=64.767
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=128.467
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=2367.800
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=68.400
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=76.033
ID_SIGNAL=11

BTW, I'm using the 0.3.6 SMPlayer version, and MPlayer Athlon64 build from march 31.

rvm

4th April 2007, 16:45

According to that log, mplayer crashes without telling why.

I've got that version of mplayer (mplayer2007.03.31.7z ) from here (http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/) and I've seen that it crashes when trying to use ssa subs or system fonts (fontconfig).

I'd suggest you to try a different one.

rvm

4th April 2007, 17:18

BTW, smplayer 0.3.7 update available for download (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/windows/download_en.php)

Most important changes:

* The mouse buttons and wheel are configurable.
* The 10s, 1m and 10m seek can be configured.
* The initial volume can be configured.
* Added options to clear the "recent files" menu.
* Added the Polish translation.
* Added a repeat option (in Play menu).
* All icons are now png (instead of xpm), so now icons look much nicer.

http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/9192/prefgui2ej4.th.jpg (http://img469.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prefgui2ej4.jpg)

Delerue

5th April 2007, 19:25

That log occours when I try 'DVD from folder' (pointing to the main folder or to the 'VIDEO_TS' folder). If try 'DVD from drive' or 'DVD from folder' (pointing to the 'VIDEO_TS" folder of a DVD disc), I get this:

C:/Arquivos de programas/smplayer/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -wid 1246066 -colorkey 131586 -monitoraspect 1.33333 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp Unicode -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device I: -chapter 1 -dvdangle 1 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add eq2 dvd://1

MPlayer dev-SVN-r22848-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
Setting process priority: abovenormal
108 audio & 229 video codecs

Playing dvd://1.
ID_DVD_TITLES=3
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=13
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=0.400
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=3466.133
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=1124.834
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=E0DFE4BC10EB21BC52A74551278FBEFA
There are 3 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
number of audio channels on disk: 0.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 5000.0 kbps (625.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=dvd://1
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=5000000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_LENGTH=0.40
Opening video filter: [eq2]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpeg12
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
VO: [directx] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12 [zoom]
stderr: The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
stderr: Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
stderr: e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.

Exiting... (End of file)

rvm

5th April 2007, 22:44

Ok. Title #1 is less than 1 second length (probably it's the menu. smplayer and mplayer don't support dvd menus yet).

Go to Browse->Title and select title #2.
Does it play something now?

Delerue

6th April 2007, 00:49

Ok. Title #1 is less than 1 second length (probably it's the menu. smplayer and mplayer don't support dvd menus yet).

Go to Browse->Title and select title #2.
Does it play something now?

Yeah! Worked. Now, the only problem is with 'DVD from folder' pointing to a folder inside the HD.

Thanks!

breez

8th April 2007, 10:41

I can't seem to get smplayer to choose right audio track when I use -alang in the additional options. However, just running the mplayer.exe with: mplayer.exe -alang jpn test.mkv works fine.

edit: smplayer 0.3.12

rvm

8th April 2007, 16:13

smplayer uses the -aid option to select an audio track and that probably conflicts with -alang.

breez

8th April 2007, 23:52

Ok, I tried -aid 1, but some problems occured. When the video was opened for the first time, track 0 was used. If I opened it again, track 1 was used. If I disabled "Remember settings for all files", track 0 was always used.

Moreover, with -aid 1 specified, mplayer would crash if a video didn't have the corresponding audio track.

edit: More experimenting with settings. Disabling "Fast audio track switching" helps with the first problem, but the second one remains. It would be really helpful if prioritizing audio tracks with -alang worked.

rvm

9th April 2007, 19:03

I've tried to fix this problem in version 0.3.14.

Now I've added in Preferences an option where you can type your preferred audio track language. When playing a file for first time, smplayer will try to select the right audio track, but it's necessary that the media provide info about the language of the audio tracks.

I tested this feature with one mkv file and one dvd and it seems that it works.

You can enter something like jpn or ja but also a regular expression like ja|jpn|jap.

Caroliano

9th April 2007, 21:37

Caroliano

9th April 2007, 21:58

More things:

When I pause the video, and change some configuration, the video starts to play automaticaly after I close the configuration window. This shoud not be the defaut behavior, because in this case I was trying to change an configuration to make my screenshot of that scene that I selected.

By the way, where the screenshots are stored? And how I can change that? And there shoud be an discrete visual confirmation that the screenshot was done. As an OSD for example.

EDIT: looking at the log (that is not update dinamicaly), I saw "Core::screenshot error: directory for screenshots not valid". This is with the defaut configuration, and I don't know how to change that.

rvm

9th April 2007, 23:24

I opened the player and tried to play a video with subtitles. While I was seeking to diferent parts of it the player disapeared. Probably crashed. Then I opened it again, and the video that I was playing was there. But now I wanted to see another video, so I used drag-and-drop to bring another file. But when it started to play, the audio of the one that crashed started to play in loop together. When I closed the player, the new video and audio continued playing, but the old audio was still in looping. When I closed the smplayer.exe in the taskmanager, the old audio continued playing, but not in loop anymore. It only stoped when I closed mplayer.exe.

It seems that smplayer crashed (although it's strange that it just disappeared without an error message from Windows) but the mplayer process kept running, and from then everything was a mess.

This last thing also ocured when the player started to play the audio in loop after an seeking, and the UI stop responding. If I close the UI, the audio leave the loop and continue playing. This shoud be also terminated when I close the smplayer.exe.

What you explain is quite similar to this problem (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=75) that I found some time ago.

I couldn't fix it yet. I don't know exactly why happens, I don't know if it's a bug of smplayer, the Qt libraries or mplayer.
It use to happen when the mplayer process outputs a lot of data while playing the video.
A work around that I found is to use gl or gl2 as video output driver.

More things:

When I pause the video, and change some configuration, the video starts to play automaticaly after I close the configuration window. This shoud not be the defaut behavior, because in this case I was trying to change an configuration to make my screenshot of that scene that I selected.

Some changes in preferences (most of them) require to restart the mplayer process. In that moment the video starts to play again... I'll see if I can do something about it.

By the way, where the screenshots are stored? And how I can change that? And there shoud be an discrete visual confirmation that the screenshot was done. As an OSD for example.

EDIT: looking at the log (that is not update dinamicaly), I saw "Core::screenshot error: directory for screenshots not valid". This is with the defaut configuration, and I don't know how to change that.

Options->Preferences->Folder for storing screenshots. Choose the one you want (if that field is empty, screenshots are disabled).

Now when you take a screenshot you'll get a confirmation in the OSD (unless the OSD is disabled) and in the status bar.

Caroliano

10th April 2007, 04:38

Options->Preferences->Folder for storing screenshots. Choose the one you want (if that field is empty, screenshots are disabled).I don't know how I overlooked this... but it shoud be set by defaut to somewhere, like the folder from where the video is playing.
A work around that I found is to use gl or gl2 as video output driver.
gl2 driver is too slow in my computer, and the gl driver crashed very badly my computer, leaving me with an blue screen that forced me to restart the computer in the button.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7968/dsc00096aq9.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00096aq9.jpg)

This also happened when I tried the png output for an long time. It crashed before I understanded what it was doing. I don't know if it is something wrong with my hardware or software that your program triggered, but that is the first time that I see this screen.

But that is the most full featured Mplayer GUI that I ever saw for windows, and in QT4. I'm sure it still has an long way to go, but it is already very good.

rvm

10th April 2007, 16:22

The png video output saves all frames in the hard disk as png files. All png, jpeg, tga... video output should not be used to watch a video.

Anyway I've just test it png output and it didn't crash my computer, just full the screenshot folder with png files.

The gl/gl2 video output in Windows have some problems, but in the way that the image gets corrupted when resizing the window, but it never crashed my computer either (and the corrupt image problem seems to be mostly fixed in recent releases of mplayer).

Maybe it's a problem of your video card drivers.

Caroliano

10th April 2007, 23:10

Yeah, I used the png output to make the screenshots, after I undertod what it did, and before I saw your post. I have very little free space in my HD, less than 2GB.

foxyshadis

11th April 2007, 07:48

s3/sis? No wonder. Even ATI can't get ogl right, but s3....

It it crashes in d3d/overlay a lot, waiting for a fix on that bug might be the only solution. =\

Caroliano

12th April 2007, 02:49

It is S3/Via... not much better.

breez

14th April 2007, 10:16

rvm

24th April 2007, 19:08

smplayer 0.3.39 update available for download (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/windows/download_en.php)

There's been a lot of time since the last announcement here, and there's been a lot of changes. Most important:

* The GUI has completely change. Now it has toolbars, the control widget is different and changes if the window gets smaller. New floating control for fullscreen mode. Customizable icons (several themes available).
* Now it can load dvd iso images (Open->File and select a *.iso file)
* Best support for subtitles. Now for instance, if you load an idx/sub you'll be able to select among all of subtitles that the file provides.
* You can set your preferred language for audio and subtitles (as explained in previous posts).
* You can save defaults for the video equalizer.

The whole changelog is here (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=74&mforum=smplayer).