MPlayer for Windows (2008-06-01)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thank you! I've done that and managed to play some files just fine.

One thing that didn't work was the progress bar. The Pause button doesn't seem to work either.

Well, MPlayer cannot seek in some files. So the Seeking-Bar won't work with such files.
The Pause button should work though...

Try a simple DivX-AVI file or something!

[Flexy]

excellent....i just discovered Mplayer yesterday (was using mpc & ffdshow before).....and then i thought that MPUI and celtic druid's builds are the best....and you provide all those in ONE package ! Nice !!!!

[celtic_druid]

Anyone tried my win32 gmplayer build?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Anyone tried my win32 gmplayer build?

yeah. seems to work fine here, but I prefer MPUI as GUI for MPlayer...

[Flexy]

i will try whatever you have there....playing around with mplayer and various GUIs and builds....the problem is my GF has an old Toshiba lappy w/ PIII...and i have a hard time finding a player which does NOT cause problems.

I test the PIII builds on her laptop..and i see she has terrible problems with MPUI (and the CDruid optimized mplayer build)..i don't know why...but it is extremely choppy w/ XVid et. , bringing her comp down to the knees :)

But with the *same* mplayer executable/build i have GOOD
results with MPF (Mplayer frontend) on her comp...must be some setting issue.
"Good" means that picture quality and speed are awesome, but in SOME movies the audio was out of sync. (Some movies more than others). But then MPUI would just slow it down to almost an halt so i cant even use it.

[bolke]

There is a new Windows gui for mplayer. At first glance it seems to be pretty good.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/rulesplayer

[Razorholt]

RulesPlayer is quite fast, yes. I could play a 720p MOV file on my 800Mhz PC... Interesting.

However, they should fix their download link. ".exe" is missing.

[Razorholt]

How about ActiveX for MPlayer? Has anybody developed it yet?

Thanks,
- Dan

[avih]

@LoRd_MuldeR:

First of all, I've seen your wrapper lately (before I was aware of this thread) and was highly impressed with its simplicity, effectiveness, functionality and small footprint. Well done :)

When I saw this thread I went to the sourceforge project (and home) pages and could only find version 1.10 for download. Since it's the home page of MPUI, I think that you should either upload the latest versions to sourceforge or link from the homepage to the latest available download, or state that the homepage is no longer updated and there's another homepage.

Also, It would be great if the latest version is also always available as plain zip without mplayer in the package (on top of the standard full installer). This way savvy users can check the latest version with a very small download and without any installation.

Keep the the good work mate :)
avih

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR:

First of all, I've seen your wrapper lately (before I was aware of this thread) and was highly impressed with its simplicity, effectiveness, functionality and small footprint. Well done :)

When I saw this thread I went to the sourceforge project (and home) pages and could only find version 1.10 for download. Since it's the home page of MPUI, I think that you should either upload the latest versions to sourceforge or link from the homepage to the latest available download, or state that the homepage is no longer updated and there's another homepage.

Also, It would be great if the latest version is also always available as plain zip without mplayer in the package (on top of the standard full installer). This way savvy users can check the latest version with a very small download and without any installation.

Keep the the good work mate :)
avih

You can download all versions of MPUI at it's SF homepage. Both, the binary and the sources, are in ZIP files.
So if you don't want to use my package, download MPUI form it's original homepage.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155302

[acantoni]

Just wanted to say thanks !
This player is awesome and lightweight!

[avih]

Is it only me or is the latest version forgetting the setting every time it's closed, regardless of trying to save the options? specifically i'm interested in the interface language which doesn't default to english. didn't check if the rest of the options remain.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is it only me or is the latest version forgetting the setting every time it's closed, regardless of trying to save the options? specifically i'm interested in the interface language which doesn't default to english. didn't check if the rest of the options remain.

Go to the "options" window, set up everything and click the "save" button :D
If you select the language just from the menu, it won't be saved...

[avih]

Go to the "options" window, set up everything and click the "save" button :D
If you select the language just from the menu, it won't be saved...

tried it before i posted and didn't work for me. i change to english. then options, save, and as soon as i click it, it changes back to the other language. the ini file that was created has the line "locale=auto". if i replace it manually from auto to en then it works fine. if i then try to change to different language, it revers to english (the ui itself) as soon as i click "save". the ini file stays with "locale=en" though. this wasn't a problem with 1.1 iirc.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

tried it before i posted and didn't work for me. i change to english. then options, save, and as soon as i click it, it changes back to the other language. the ini file that was created has the line "locale=auto". if i replace it manually from auto to en then it works fine. if i then try to change to different language, it revers to english (the ui itself) as soon as i click "save". the ini file stays with "locale=en" though. this wasn't a problem with 1.1 iirc.

Never had that problem.
But maybe you report it to http://mpui.sf.net/

[avih]

here's (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1537071&group_id=155302&atid=795261) your bug report. cheers :)

[avih]

@LoRd_MuldeR:
can u compile MPUI with a freely available compiler?

[celtic_druid]

Maybe Free Pascal? or http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=110900

[avih]

@celtic_druid: thx, however I've no prior experience with Delphi, and honestly, don't want to start messing with different versions, patches, modules and translations. If LoRd_MuldeR knows of a free compiler setup that can compile it, I'd love to hear. No offence druid ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@celtic_druid: thx, however I've no prior experience with Delphi, and honestly, don't want to start messing with different versions, patches, modules and translations. If LoRd_MuldeR knows of a free compiler setup that can compile it, I'd love to hear. No offence druid ;)

Well, I own Delphi 7 Professional version. That cost me 300€.
But I know there are "personal" editions of Delphi available for free.
Problem with PE is, that your are not allowed to make binaries public!

There is also Lazarus, but I don't know if it will compile MPUI.
Lazarus is missing some libraries that are in Delphi.
And you also need the Unicode Controls to compile MPUI, no idea if they work in Lazarus.

Have a look here:
http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_delphi.html
But I have no experience with "new" Delphi versions.
They are for .NET and stuff. Nothing I'm in at the moment.

[avih]

thx for the info.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

For more information click here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965).

[dumbuser]

Anyone tried my win32 gmplayer build?

Ya! Have been playing with it for the past few days. It's neat! But searching in an MP4 either ASP or AVC is a problem, but ASP or AVC in an Matroska is not. Another thing I noticed last night was not all the documented skin commands are supported, like evPlayVCD, evSetURL, evDropSubtitle, etc and I still haven't figured out away to play an audio CD. The player randomly crashes and haven't been able to pinpoint a sequence of events, but using the search forward button three times in a row the player will close. Often I find lipsync to be a problem (not the files), resetting sync to nearest 0 value resolves the issue, but checking sync in preferences does not.

Over all it's a nice refreshing change that can be dumped to a CD/DVD and auto set to play on open with a configured set up. Still haven't figured out how to get the GUI to auto open from a AUTORUN, but I'm reasonably sure it's me. The same commands on a Hard Drive auto opens everything, instead I just get a video window (no GUI) from CD/DVD. It does open and play.

Hope some of this is helpful feed back as it is nice to see work progress in this area for Windows.

BTW The above was noticed using a P4 2.8G and Radeon combination on Windows XP SP2. The system is stable and other media players including VLC are stable. For dshow players I tend toward purposed codecs rather than FFdshow or Codec packs.

Thanks for a neat player, hope to be seeing more of it as work progresses.

[dumbuser]

Ya! Have been playing with it for the past few days. It's neat! But searching in an MP4 either ASP or AVC is a problem, but ASP or AVC in an Matroska is not. Another thing I noticed last night was not all the documented skin commands are supported, like evPlayVCD, evSetURL, evDropSubtitle, etc and I still haven't figured out away to play an audio CD. The player randomly crashes and haven't been able to pinpoint a sequence of events, but using the search forward button three times in a row the player will close. Often I find lipsync to be a problem (not the files), resetting sync to nearest 0 value resolves the issue, but checking sync in preferences does not.

Over all it's a nice refreshing change that can be dumped to a CD/DVD and auto set to play on open with a configured set up. Still haven't figured out how to get the GUI to auto open from a AUTORUN, but I'm reasonably sure it's me. The same commands on a Hard Drive auto opens everything, instead I just get a video window (no GUI) from CD/DVD. It does open and play.

Hope some of this is helpful feed back as it is nice to see work progress in this area for Windows.

BTW The above was noticed using a P4 2.8G and Radeon combination on Windows XP SP2. The system is stable and other media players including VLC are stable. For dshow players I tend toward purposed codecs rather than FFdshow or Codec packs.

Thanks for a neat player, hope to be seeing more of it as work progresses.

When you use the player for a while it will no longer do sync. It seems that the delay is stored in the config file and picked up again each time you stop and start a file. Makes no difference if the sync option is on or off. You must manually resync the file. This is real anoying.

[Thomas_AR]

@LoRd_MuldeR:
First great Job. Switched yesterday from MPC/FFDshow to Mplayer/MPUI.

Just one question. Is there a special reason that your Setup provides each single codec, and not a all in one solution (mplayer.exe has all codecs inside) like the package you can download on MPUI homepage?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

When you use the player for a while it will no longer do sync. It seems that the delay is stored in the config file and picked up again each time you stop and start a file. Makes no difference if the sync option is on or off. You must manually resync the file. This is real anoying.

MPlayer plays absolutely sync here with 99% of the files I tested.
Only files that don't play in sync here are some HD h.264 trailers, and that's because lavc's h.264 decoder is too slow for my CPU.
There is a "drop frames" option for better sync, but MPUI uses that automatically.
So if your files don't play in sync, I think this is either because your CPU is too slow for those files or those files are corrupted in some way.
I highly doubt MPlayer will do anything like saving the delay in the config files...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR:
First great Job. Switched yesterday from MPC/FFDshow to Mplayer/MPUI.

Just one question. Is there a special reason that your Setup provides each single codec, and not a all in one solution (mplayer.exe has all codecs inside) like the package you can download on MPUI homepage?

MPlayer has most codecs built-in. But there are still some proprietary formats for which there's no (working) OpenSource decoder available. So if there's no OpenSource decoder available for those formats, they cannot incude it in MPlayer.exe. All they can do is use the binaries (DLLs) provided by the manufacturer for decoding. Those files are located in the "codecs" directory and MPlayer loads them when needed. Of course MPlayer works 100% fine without those Codecs, but some files won't play then (like nasty WMV9 and stuff). The package from MPUI homepage does not include any additional Codecs, but I inlcuded the latest "full codec package" form MPlayerHQ.

More info is here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html

[Thomas_AR]

Thanks a lot for the Explanations. If i remember right (have the all include version running), your mplayer exe has only about 400 KB, so you include _no_ codec in it not even the basic ones, all in a separate folder.

.....und Gruesse von Buenos Aires in meine alte Heimat Frankfurt :)

[dumbuser]

Anyone tried my win32 gmplayer build?

If you want to get a kick, open the player and without loading anything, press the Next button.

I did figure out how to auto open the interface from a CD. Make a playlist and point to it.

I now have a few more skins that are modified and work correctly with this build.

I also keep forgetting to mention that the cursor does not disappear in full screen.

[dumbuser]

MPlayer plays absolutely sync here with 99% of the files I tested.
Only files that don't play in sync here are some HD h.264 trailers, and that's because lavc's h.264 decoder is too slow for my CPU.
There is a "drop frames" option for better sync, but MPUI uses that automatically.
So if your files don't play in sync, I think this is either because your CPU is too slow for those files or those files are corrupted in some way.
I highly doubt MPlayer will do anything like saving the delay in the config files...

I was referring to Celtic Druid's build of GMPlayer (as he had asked for feedback) not MPUI. No problems encountered with MPUI Yet! :D

Also, I did quote machine specs, but just for the record I can do 720p without problems in h.264 and WMV3. I find MPEG TS or PS will do 1080p for some files. But the tests are over and find these formats usless on a computer unless you have a 65" monitor and the 5K or so to drop for it. My machine is stable and sync or jitter is confined to the program or codecs I'm using. Have been the ReClock route and found it to be quite useless on this machine.

[jffulcrum]

H-m, Mplayer build 2006-08-15 incorrectly detect available CPU extensions. This is output of default mplayer.exe, installed for my Pentium 3 Tualutin 1.4-S CPU:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r19401-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, Step
ping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

And this by other exe from package, probable for P4 class CPU`s:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r19401-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, Step
ping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

[LoRd_MuldeR]

H-m, Mplayer build 2006-08-15 incorrectly detect available CPU extensions. This is output of default mplayer.exe, installed for my Pentium 3 Tualutin 1.4-S CPU:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r19401-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, Step
ping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

And this by other exe from package, probable for P4 class CPU`s:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r19401-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11, Step
ping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Any changes if you use this (http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/mplayer2006.08.23.P3.7z) MPlayer.exe ???

[celtic_druid]

No. It's doing exactly what it supposed to. SSE/SSE2 are not supposed to be enabled. I patched certain builds such as the P4 build to enable them, so in actual fact they are the ones that are incorrectly detecting.

The P3 build is not patched, so no SSE.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

No. It's doing exactly what it supposed to. SSE/SSE2 are not supposed to be enabled. I patched certain builds such as the P4 build to enable them, so in actual fact they are the ones that are incorrectly detecting.

The P3 build is not patched, so no SSE.

Thanks for clarification :)
Maybe it should be documented somewhere what build uses which optimizations ;)

Seems MPUI development is frozen. No news since 2006-06-24 :(

[avih]

@LoRd_MuldeR: aren't u the developer of MPUI? or just the one who packages it along with mplayer?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR: aren't u the developer of MPUI? or just the one who packages it along with mplayer?

I'm not MPUI dev.
Just make my own build with Delphi7-Pro and some minor modifications.

[avih]

k, thx for the info.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

For more information click here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965).

[EpheMeroN]

What language is this in?

How can I switch it to English?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What language is this in?

How can I switch it to English?

The Installer is englisch only, but MPUI has full multi-language support: More than 20 languages supported in current version. Just go to options window and choose a language.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3920/mpuiml2dh6.png (http://imageshack.us)

[grokwik]

Hi,
First : thank you for your package : its the best way to play video files on windows.

The only thing I can't do is changing font size. I can do it in rulesplayer but this player is buggy with french accent so that I don't use it.
How can I change font size with MPUI?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi,
First : thank you for your package : its the best way to play video files on windows.

The only thing I can't do is changing font size. I can do it in rulesplayer but this player is buggy with french accent so that I don't use it.
How can I change font size with MPUI?

Sorry, don't think MPUI has such an option.
You'll have to pick the source-code load it into Delphi and change the font-size by hand.
Or you hack the resources - Delphi stores all Dialogs as Resources in the EXE files ;)

[dumbuser]

Hmm! I've changed fonts and size by downloading new fonts form the MPlayer web site. Then modifying the config to point to them. You will need to try one set at a time until you find the one you are happy with size wise. The selection is kinda thin as it covers the ISO standards character sets for languages.

In MPUI you will need to open options and under additional mplayer parameters type: -font <path> The font chosen will not effect DVDs or VOBSub type subtitles but it does effect OSD and most other supported subtitle formats.

http://alis.isoc.org/codage/iso8859/jeuxiso.en.htm
ISO Standard for various characters sets

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hmm! I've changed fonts and size by downloading new fonts form the MPlayer web site. Then modifying the config to point to them. You will need to try one set at a time until you find the one you are happy with size wise. The selection is kinda thin as it covers the ISO standards character sets for languages.

In MPUI you will need to open options and under additional mplayer parameters type: -font <path> The font chosen will not effect DVDs or VOBSub type subtitles but it does effect OSD and most other supported subtitle formats.

http://alis.isoc.org/codage/iso8859/jeuxiso.en.htm
ISO Standard for various characters sets

So you were talking about MPlayer front (OSD, Subitiles, etc.) and not MPUI font. Then you can do it this way ;)
Changing MPUI font is a different thing...

[danpos]

Anyone tried my win32 gmplayer build?

I tried it out and it looks promissing. The GUI is simple and cool. But I don't get to turn ON the subtitle for a DVD in which I tested it with gmplayer. How do turn on the subtitle?

Another question with is how to configurate others parameters. In MPUI I set these parameters out (into interface):

-af volnorm -softvol -softvol-max 600 -volstep 10 -alang en,pt -slang en -sid 0 -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-text-scale 25

How to do this configuration into gmplayer?

Anyway, I liked it! :)

Regards,

[celtic_druid]

I would assume that gmplayer uses the conf file, same as mplayer. You can set all default options there.

[danpos]

I would assume that gmplayer uses the conf file, same as mplayer. You can set all default options there.

Thanks for your reaction. I did some 'googling' and found some posts on Ubuntu's forums, which gave me some clues how to configurate the file 'config' at mplayers folder. Below follows the configuration that is working fine to play DVDs:

# Write your default config options here!

#======
# Video
#======

#This sets the postprocessing into overdrive using all possible spare cpu cycles to make the

movie look better
#autoq=100
#vf=pp=de,hqdn3d

#======
# Audio
#======

# Set audio normalization
af=volnorm

# Set volume control
softvol=1
softvol-max=300
volstep=10

# Set audio language
alang=en,pt

#==========
# Subtitles
#==========

# VobSubs
#========

# Align subs. (-1: as they want to align themselves)
spualign=-1

# Anti-alias subs. (4: best and slowest)
spuaa=4

# Set language.
slang=en,eng,pt,por

# Text-based subtitles
#=====================

# Find subtitle files. (1: load all subs containing movie name)
sub-fuzziness=1

# Set font.
font=C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Impact.ttf

# Set font encoding.
subfont-encoding=unicode

# Set subtitle file encoding.
unicode=yes
utf8=yes

# Resample the font alphamap. (1: narrow black outline)
ffactor=1

# Set subtitle position. (100: as low as possible)
subpos=100

# Set subtitle alignment at its position. (2: bottom)
subalign=2

# Set font size. (2: proportional to movie width)
subfont-autoscale=2

# Set font blur radius. (default: 2)
subfont-blur=2.0

# Set font outline thickness. (default: 2)
subfont-outline=2.0

# Set autoscale coefficient. (default: 5)
subfont-text-scale=4.4

# OSD
#====

# Set autoscale coefficient. (default: 6)
subfont-osd-scale=4.4

#===========
# Appearance
#===========

# Disable screensaver.
stop-xscreensaver=yes

# Position window. (50%:50%: center of screen)
geometry=50%:50%

# Skin
#skin=Glider

#Some extra stuff I am currently not using....
#Fix A/V sync problems on files with bad MP3 VBR audio
#mc="1"
#autosync="10"
#delay="0.5"

Perhaps be useful for someone. :)

Regards,

[EpheMeroN]

How can I get subtitle support with this build of MPlayer?

Every file I play has the "Subtitle Track" option greyed out. I even tried having the subs and the video files named the same thing (that's how they auto-load in other players due to the VobSub package).

[lolent]

a very simple & useful installer package !
thanks for your work LoRd_MuldeR :)

[ffmpeg]

Bug Report:

MPUI Cant seek for the RMVB files while the same mplayer.exe can seek RMVB fast&well
But MPUI can seek for other files(mov/mp4/avi/wmv/....)

It seems that MPUI cant capture the seek Message(eg:drag the slide bar or click the corresponding menu item ) Which I send to it!

It is very strange for me!