MPlayer for Windows (2008-06-01)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thread moved here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=138725


If you want, you can try creating a new thread and I'll move all the old posts into it, maybe it'll still let you rename the thread, maybe not. Haven't tested!

[danpos]

Downloading it! :D

Thanks for sharing it. :)

Cheers,

[dimzon]

ReUpload it at different location

[LoRd_MuldeR]

ReUpload it at different location

I will do so when I have some time!
Maybe someone else can do it and post link here...

Upload at fileking.to didn't work. I was redirected to start page after upload with no dl link :(

[buzzqw]

mytempdir mirror: http://www.mytempdir.com/739047

BHH

[Avish]

I've just put together a full package of MPUI.

Key features are:
Personal build of MPUI v1.1.9
Latest optimized MPlayer/MEncoder builds by Celtic Druid
Setup Wizard with CPU type selection (Made with NSIS)
Latest binary Codec Package for Windows (full)
16 MB total download size
Supported CPUs: Athlon-XP, Athlon-64, Pentium-3, Pentium-4


Rapidshare-Mirror:
http://rapidshare.de/files/22994918/MPUI.2006-06-14.Full-Package.exe.htmlHi LoRd_MuldeR, Can you please tell me that how can I set output channels for 4.1 sound system in MPlayer? & also RGB32 conversion[like ffdshow's]?

Thanks.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR, Can you please tell me that how can I set output channels for 4.1 sound system in MPlayer? & also RGB32 conversion[like ffdshow's]?

Thanks.

Well, I think the MPlayer mailing list is the correct place to ask that question...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Added some new mirrors :)

[Avish]

Well, I think the MPlayer mailing list is the correct place to ask that question...So what are u saying exactly? You don't know the answer or I posted my query in wrong place ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

So what are u saying exactly? You don't know the answer or I posted my query in wrong place ;)

I don't know the answer, because it's something I never needed. So if it's not said in the manual, you should ask the mplayer devs...

[celtic_druid]

Well for 4.1, I guess you would just add channels=4 to your conf file.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

- Updated MPUI to version 1.2-pre1 (Unicode version)
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder builds
- Minor Installer changes

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Any requests to update to MPUI 1.2-pre2 ???

[emmel]

Whats the difference wrt pre1?

Anyways, well done, thank you so much for sharing.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Whats the difference wrt pre1?

Anyways, well done, thank you so much for sharing.
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=changelog

[Amnon82]

Personal build of MPUI v1.2-pre1 (Unicode) with Delphi7 Professional

Where can I download these files? I mean the Delphi-sources.

[emmel]

Check the link above.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Where can I download these files? I mean the Delphi-sources.

All files on SF
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155302

If you see "Intenral Server Error" just try again ;)

[xyloy]

I's an excellent player! I'm adding it to two stickies on another forum. Thank you very much! It's a very great piece of software! And available in several languages also(including mine), what else could anyone ask for! :D

And hopefully I think it will manage to make disappear all the video playback problems on my sisters' old PC! :) :)

/me is converted to mplayer and MPUI. :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*


MPUI updated to v1.2-pre2
MPlayer/MEncoder updated to 2006-06-25
Installer fixes

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

What about XP 64-bit build of MPUI and MPlayer/MEncoder?

[celtic_druid]

If you want 64bit mplayer, then install Linux.

[Sharktooth]

... and forget win32 codecs ...

[celtic_druid]

Well yeah. Same would I guess be true of an x64 port. x64 seems to be somewhat lacking in terms of 64-bit multimedia playback. There are a couple of .NET based samples/players, graphedit, ffdshow, XviD, some MPC filters, that is about it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

MPlayer/MEncoder 2006-07-02

[Razorholt]

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR for keeping us posted ;)

btw, I'm having some issues with encoded files (Xvid codec, MK container, encoded and muxed using MeGUI)

I tried and used VirtualDub, same issue. Not the same error message, but mplayer says it can't play the file. No Video track found.

The files work fine with other players though :S

Any idea?

Thanks!

Setting process priority: abovenormal
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing Z:\trailers\The Night Listener\thenightlistener_1280.mkv.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/ASP), -vid 0
[mkv] Unknown/unsupported CodecID (V_MPEG4/ISO/ASP) or missing/bad CodecPrivate data (track 1).
[mkv] No video track found/wanted.
Matroska file format detected.
No stream found.


Exiting... (End of file)

[iwod]

Well it still does not play unicode files for some reason.

[emmel]

Small suggestion: It might be useful to add some -cache by default in the cl-params when accessing File -> Play URL...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR for keeping us posted ;)

btw, I'm having some issues with encoded files (Xvid codec, MK container, encoded and muxed using MeGUI)

I tried and used VirtualDub, same issue. Not the same error message, but mplayer says it can't play the file. No Video track found.

The files work fine with other players though :S

Any idea?

Thanks!

Maybe your file is broken in some way or it's a bug in MPlayer.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Small suggestion: It might be useful to add some -cache by default in the cl-params when accessing File -> Play URL...

You should report that to the author of MPUI.

[emmel]

Oh, sorry, I was a bit confused, I thought you were the "responsible" in this case... :) Anyways, done.

[celtic_druid]

Seems to work ok here. Straight x264 encode. No audio or anything though.


Playing D:\Stuff\test.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Will play video track 1
Matroska file format detected.

[Mix de Rax]

Could You make also a non SSE just MMX version. Please.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Could You make also a non SSE just MMX version. Please.

You can take the build from that download. Just replace MPlayer.exe

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mpui/MPUI-1.2-pre2_with_MPlayer-1.0-pre8.zip?download

[markrb]

I have read everything I can find, including the html that came with it, but I am stumped on 2 things?

1. I found it.

2. How do I make the player default into fullscreen mode?

Thanks,
Mark

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I guess you talk about MPUI.
Just go to the options window, select language and save!

[markrb]

Yep saw that after I posted. I was just using the seperate language drilldown that is not on the options screen.

Thanks,
Mark

[Razorholt]

@ LoRd_MuldeR: I will email the folks there, thanks.

@ celtic_druid: Encoded with x264 works fine. Please try encoding the same file (with or without audio) with Xvid. MeGUI is fine. Thanks.

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

Where I can find sources for MPUI 1.2?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Where I can find sources for MPUI 1.2?

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

[killerhex]

i have a problem everytime i restart or click the save to save the cofig of the player it switches to another language instead of english

[LoRd_MuldeR]

i have a problem everytime i restart or click the save to save the cofig of the player it switches to another language instead of english

You have to select and *save* the language in the options window if you want to keep it. If this doesn't work, make sure mpui.ini isn't write-protected.

[killerhex]

ok it worked

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*


MPlayer/MEnocder updated to 2006-07-17
Fixed a bug in my MPUI build (KernelDeinterlacer was broken)

[grss1982]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR,

This might sound stupid, but is this player pack backwards compatible with Windows 98 SE?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR,

This might sound stupid, but is this player pack backwards compatible with Windows 98 SE?

I don't know, because I've never tested that.
MPUI is a simple Delphi app, so this should not be the problem.
But I'm not sure if those MPlayer builds are suitable for Win9x.

If you want to know, get Vitual PC, run a Win98 machine and test it...

[Razorholt]

Last time I checked it didn't work.

I know I had to download 2 additional files from M$ to make VLC work on 98.; maybe MPUI needed those files too (sorry, forgot the names).

I will try and install MPUI again...

[Razorholt]

Ok.

The files I was refering to can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en

I tried to install MPUI on my poor 98 machine but since it is a P2 it didn't work :(

Sorry.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Ok.

The files I was refering to can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73BA7BD7-ED06-4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en

I tried to install MPUI on my poor 98 machine but since it is a P2 it didn't work :(

Sorry.

P3 build requires SSE, which P2 doesn't have.
Get a generic build of MPlayer and it should work.

Just replace the MPlayer.exe with the one form that (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mpui/MPUI-1.1.10_with_MPlayer-1.0-pre8.zip?download) ZIP file!

[Razorholt]

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.

[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!

[EpheMeroN]

I have a laptop that runs a Pentium 4M processor.

With that being said, do I choose P4 or PM as the CPU choice during the install?

Also, anyone know about my subtitle posting?

[foxyshadis]

P4M is just a throttled/underclocked P4.

[danpos]

@Ephemeron

For MPUI, you should edit the MPUI.ini file and put this line at end of file:

Params=-slang en -sid 0 -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-text-scale 25

Regards,

[MattO]

Hi,
I have installed this package of MPUI and everything works fine, but is there a way of outputting the audio via SPDIF when playing videos with 5.1 sound?
I have successfully done this with MPC and VLC, but I cannot find any such options in MPUI.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi,
I have installed this package of MPUI and everything works fine, but is there a way of outputting the audio via SPDIF when playing videos with 5.1 sound?
I have successfully done this with MPC and VLC, but I cannot find any such options in MPUI.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

Read this:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#advaudio-surround-passthrough

I guess all you need to do is adding this to Additional MPlayer parameters:
-ac hwac3,

[MattO]

Thanks Mulder, that works great ;)

[EpheMeroN]

@Ephemeron

For MPUI, you should edit the MPUI.ini file and put this line at end of file:

Params=-slang en -sid 0 -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-text-scale 25

Regards,
Thanks! That worked perfectly. The subs appear to be mildly translucent though. Is there another option to make the subs solid?


P4M is just a throttled/underclocked P4.
Thanks. That's what I thought!

-----------------------------------------------------

Is there a way to add MPUI to the pop-up window that comes up when a dvd is inserted in a WinXP machine and asks what you want to do?

[HarryM]

Mplayer is great for playing divx movies with subtitles (text formats). But I have problems with the microdvd style of subtitles (*.SUB)- a timing is strongly asynchronous (with media player classic is all ok).
SubRip style (*.SRT, time based) is ok.

Why? And what can I do for correcting this problem (except subs conversion)?

Thanks for your help.;)

[andybkma]

Thanks for the great package. Love the MPlayer and the MPUI gui. However, I can't figure one thing out... how to make the mouse scroll button fast forward & rewind the video instead of adjusting the volume? I've seen this in other gui's (I think RulezPlayer). Can this also be done in MPUI?

Thanks again for your sweet packaging,

bkm

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks for the great package. Love the MPlayer and the MPUI gui. However, I can't figure one thing out... how to make the mouse scroll button fast forward & rewind the video instead of adjusting the volume? I've seen this in other gui's (I think RulezPlayer). Can this also be done in MPUI?

Thanks again for your sweet packaging,

bkm

Of course it could be done in MPUI, but in current version the hotkeys are not configurable, sorry. Editing the MPlayer config files won't help here, because MPUI processes all inputs and passes the commands to MPlayer.

[EpheMeroN]

How can I adjust the volume (what I mean is how can I go over the 100% volume to aomplify files that have really low sound) & how can I adjust the brightness using the keyboard controls when watching a video?

[chros]

I'm using mplayer recently (for troubleshooting, demuxing), and now I have found your GUI:
it's amazing !!! Thanks for it !

I have used the beta official gui, but it sucks. I love the WMP 6.4, MPC look and feel.

Small suggestions for the gui:
- it would be nice a keyboard shortcut to the Information panel (eg.: I )
- it would be nice a keyboard shortcut to the consol output panel (eg.: O )
- like in MPC, if we click on the window it would start/pause the playing
- like in MPC, the UP and Down arrows would set the volume
- in settings: a new option would come in handy, where we can select the channels of the sound output. eg.: 2.0 , 4.0 , 5.1, SPDIF , etc. (if it's easy to implement)

And not play-specific suggestion:
- It would be nice if the gui would have a Conversion Wizard like in VLC gui (or similar, which easier to implement), where major video, audio formats can be set ...

Packaging suggestion:
- a selectable option for mencoder ('cause if I select MPUI/Mplayer , it doesn't intall mencoder ...)

And again: Thanx for this great GUI !!!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

How can I adjust the volume (what I mean is how can I go over the 100% volume to aomplify files that have really low sound) & how can I adjust the brightness using the keyboard controls when watching a video?

Tools -> Options -> Sofware Volume Control / Volume Boost :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Small suggestions for the gui:
- it would be nice a keyboard shortcut to the Information panel (eg.: I )
- like in MPC, if we click on the window it would start/pause the playing
- like in MPC, the UP and Down arrows would set the volume
- in settings: a new option would come in handy, where we can select the channels of the sound output. eg.: 2.0 , 4.0 , 5.1, SPDIF , etc. (if it's easy to implement)

And not play-specific suggestion:
- It would be nice if the gui would have a Conversion Wizard like in VLC gui (or similar, which easier to implement), where major video, audio formats can be set ...

Well, send your request to the MPUI author:
martin.fiedler@gmx.net

Or submit a patch ;)


Packaging suggestion:
- a selectable option for mencoder ('cause if I select MPUI/Mplayer , it doesn't intall mencoder ...)

And again: Thanx for this great GUI !!!

The package now includes only MPlayer.exe, because it's a player package and thus doesn't need MEncoder.exe. If you are looking for an MEncoder GUI, then check out my MEncoder264 app :D

http://mencoder264.de.gg/

[ringwraith1]

i use kaspersky AV. it shows that the setup file u've uploaded has a virus "trojan-downloader.win32.zlob.kz". i'd request u 2 upload a clean file

[LoRd_MuldeR]

i use kaspersky AV. it shows that the setup file u've uploaded has a virus "trojan-downloader.win32.zlob.kz". i'd request u 2 upload a clean file

The installer was compiled with NSIS, the MPlayer binaries are provided by Celtic Druid and the MPUI.exe is compiled by myself under Delphi7 Pro. There definitely is no "Trojan" included :mad:

Did you check it back with other AV software? If only one alerts, this says nothing...
Can others confirm ???

[emmel]

Clean according to f-sec.

I think the OP should report and ask directly from Kaspersky. They would appreciate it.

It would not be the first time that it gives a false alarm with its weak signatures. Anyways, Gooogle didn't give me any trasonable description in english of that "trojan-downloader.win32.zlob.kz".

[dancho]

just checked with Sophos Anti-Virus 4.06.0,
it is clean...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@emmel & dancho:
Thanks.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

Updated MPlayer builds to 2006-09-05
Thunderbird build not updated (Celtic did not make one)
*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

Hope no false positives this time ;)

[EpheMeroN]

Are there any switches that I can put into the mpui.ini file that will resize a 720p video by 1/2 (i.e. separatefields().selecteven()) so that it will playback properly on my old PIII 700mhz pc? It plays now but it's choppy.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Are there any switches that I can put into the mpui.ini file that will resize a 720p video by 1/2 (i.e. separatefields().selecteven()) so that it will playback properly on my old PIII 700mhz pc? It plays now but it's choppy.

Go to "Extras > Options" and add this parameter:
-vf-add scale=x:y
Where x and y is the target resolution. For example:
-vf-add scale=320:240

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

1) MPlayer builds updated to 2006-09-29
2) Added Generic build (Runtime CPU detection)
3) Removed Thunderbird build (not updated anymore)
4) Remember Install directory

*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

[HarryM]

Can anyone modify instalation procedure for preserving setup parameters? I install the newest version and the instalation file overwriting my hardly tuned "additional Mplayer parameters".:scared:

Thanks.

[Henrikx]

@LoRd_MuldeR

Thank You !

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Can anyone modify instalation procedure for preserving setup parameters? I install the newest version and the instalation file overwriting my hardly tuned "additional Mplayer parameters".:scared:

Thanks.

Backup your MPUI.ini before installing a new version!
But be sure, I will "fix" this in next release :)

[vlada]

I heard somewhere, that Mplayer has now implemented DVD menu support. But it isn't working for me. Why?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I heard somewhere, that Mplayer has now implemented DVD menu support. But it isn't working for me. Why?

I don't know if this is the case. But if so, it won't work with the current version of MPUI. That's for sure...
Where do you have this info from?

[EpheMeroN]

Go to "Extras > Options" and add this parameter:
-vf-add scale=x:y
Where x and y is the target resolution. For example:
-vf-add scale=320:240
That actually made the video even more choppy. Ideas why?

How do you uninstall this MPlayer package btw? I want to upgrade to the latest release. There's no uninstaller included and no entry in Add/Remove Programs.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

How do you uninstall this MPlayer package btw? I want to upgrade to the latest release. There's no uninstaller included and no entry in Add/Remove Programs.

There is no need for an uninstaller ;)

MPlayer is a self-contained application. There are no files installed to any other directory than the install folder you choose during setup. So for uninstall it's enough to delete this folder in Windows Explorer and you are done. But you won't need to do this for an unpdate! Just run the new installer and let it install to the same directory as before. It will even remember the install location form now on. Old files will be replaced automatically with new versions. Of course you have to make sure MPlayer isn't runing during install.

That actually made the video even more choppy. Ideas why?

Not really. Try use this: -sws 9 -vf-add scale=x:y
This will use Lanczos resize, which should give best quality.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

1. Reset the MPlayer settings only when selected by user
2. Added "File Associations" to the installer
3. Added an uninstaller (for all the people that can't delete the install folder themselves ^^)

*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

[Mystiqq]

Is it possible to make MPUI work around the "slightly" annoying "unpause" problem when using seek bar. What i mean is that if i have the movie on pause and i use the seek(bar) it will automatically start the playback. :(

Otherwise mplayer is pretty impressive...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is it possible to make MPUI work around the "slightly" annoying "unpause" problem when using seek bar. What i mean is that if i have the movie on pause and i use the seek(bar) it will automatically start the playback. :(

Otherwise mplayer is pretty impressive...

I think when the host application sends a 'seek' command to MPlayer, then it will unpause the player. This could be worked arround by sending a 'pause' command right after the 'seek' command, but I don't know if it really makes sens. Anyway this would be a feature request for MPUI.

[vlada]

LoRd_MuldeR> According to DVD menu i MPlayer, I just read the artice (it's in Czech language) again and I probably missunderstood it the first time. They were talking about GeeXBox v1.0 and said it has now menu support. Because GeeXboX is based on Mplayer, I thought it is a new MPlayer's feature. But it seems more likely, that it is only implemented in GeeXBox.

[celtic_druid]

There was a patch some time back. Not sure what is the situation with current svn though.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I can't imagine how DVD menu-support should work in MPlayer. Maybe controlling the menu's via Keyboard hotkeys only? But no matter if it is available or not, it would need a lot of changes in MPUI to use it...

[the gladiator]

Yes, a basic support through the enter and arrows keys would be more than enough !!!

It’s really a shame that MPUI doesn’t manage DVD menus: it’s a big minus for people looking for a single reader, because MPUI would have many of the needed features. Also some of the freeware “competitors” do manage DVD menus (although in a non-optimal way such as MPC).

Celtic_Druid, if I remember well the patch you were mentioning was only for Linux, useless then for a user as I am (without the needed skills to port that piece of sw in a windows environment).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

We'll have to wait for a proper support for DVD menus in MPlayer before we can think of adding menu-support to MPUI. If I remember correctly, this was planned for MPlayer G2. But I did not read any news of MPlayer G2 for a long time...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is it possible to make MPUI work around the "slightly" annoying "unpause" problem when using seek bar. What i mean is that if i have the movie on pause and i use the seek(bar) it will automatically start the playback. :(

Otherwise mplayer is pretty impressive...

I have made a test build that fixes the problem.
At least I hope so ;)

MPUI Test-Build (2006-10-07) (http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/MPUI.2006-10-07.zip)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

I made a new MPUI build with some minor modifications.

*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

[Henrikx]

THX

Great Work !

Downloading from Egoshare...Install was corrupt.
Downloading from Ultrashare...Install was ok.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Downloading from Egoshare...Install was corrupt.

I just checked that and everything worked fine here :confused:
Seems like something went wrong on your side...

[Henrikx]

@LoRd_MuldeR
Seems like something went wrong on your side.....perhaps with my Provider...Download is under 14.5 kb/sec..I have DSL 3000.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4902/instplayzi1.png

I made a tool to convert almost any type of media to a single self-contained and self-running EXE file.
It is mainly based on MPlayer, MPUI and NSIS.

Maybe helpfull to someone, so here we go:
InstantPlayer.2006-10-10.exe (http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/InstantPlayer.2006-10-10.exe)

[Pookie]

Nice! This could be very useful for a lot of people. Lord_Mulder, why not start a new thread for your new app?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just a little Update:
MakeInstantPlayer (2006-10-12) (http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/InstantPlayer.2006-10-12.exe)

[Pookie]

LoRd_MuldeR - I set up MPUI to default to English in Instantplayer, but it doesn't seem to read the MPUI.INI file after the media is wrapped into the .EXE

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR - I set up MPUI to default to English in Instantplayer, but it doesn't seem to read the MPUI.INI file after the media is wrapped into the .EXE

When an InstantPlayer is executed, it will extract MPlayer, MPUI and the media file to a temp folder. After playback has ended, this temp folder will be cleaned (deleted). Next time you run the InstantPlayer, the files will be extracted to a new temp folder and so on. This means if you save any settings, then the MPUI.INI will be saved in the temp folder and thus removed after the InstantPlayer is closed. No way to save any settings at this point. Nevertheless MPUI should use your OS's language by default.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

I just made a few changes to MPUI. It is now able to handle multiple instances. This means instead of creating a new player, the running instance will play the video! Furthermore you can add files to Playlist via command-line or Explorer (MPUI.exe -enqueue "x:\some path\video.avi"). Not tested very much, but seems to work. Furthermore fixed a problem, that somtimes made "short" file names appear instead of full name.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

--> MPUI - Full Package (2006-10-13) (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

[Henrikx]

@LoRd_MuldeR
Great Work !!
Thank You !

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

Introducing Light-Package!
Same as Full-Package, but without Binary Codec Package.
Size is 9 MB instead of 17 MB.

[buzzqw]

@LoRd_MuldeR

is possible to build a "net package" ?

i mean that in your installar (great work btw) thre is only mpui , but allow to download from net the custom mplayer/mencoder build (based on cpu) and the codec pack

what you think ?

BHH

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR

is possible to build a "net package" ?

i mean that in your installar (great work btw) thre is only mpui , but allow to download from net the custom mplayer/mencoder build (based on cpu) and the codec pack

what you think ?

BHH

Where is the point?
If you just want to download MPUI, you can get it from the official homepage. Then you can add whatever you want...

[buzzqw]

sure i can, but with this solution with one only setuo i can download both an optimized mplayer build and the codec pack. And not all user know where to download.

BHH

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've added experimental support for .PLS, .RAM and .ASX playlist files to MPUI.
It's not tested very much yet, so please send me valid playlist files that don't work. Thx.

// EDIT

Added support for .WPL playlists

// EDIT 2

Added support for .MPCPL playlists
Fixed: Background remains black, when playing audio-only right after video file.

MPUI.2006-10-16-3.zip (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/MPUI.2006-10-16-3.zip)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

It's been updated once again :D
*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)

[ExtraEye]

your build of mplayer is probably the best option for playback in terms of performance but there are some things that are missing for me.
first is personal:
i have dual screen mode with a HD tv which i use to view my movies and clips and mplayer doesn't show any picture when i move it to the tv screen. i know this problem also exists on the original mplayer for windows so i'm not sure you can actually do anything about it but if you can that would be great.

the second is more global the way i see it: more options plz.
i use zoom player as default player because it offers me many options and functions which enable me to optimize the player for my needs. i'm not suggesting you add all those options but some configuration of the way the player behaves would be very nice. for example setting key shortacts (option for global keys is even better ^^). also customization of the way the player behaves when clicked on and so on.

now the most important feature:
because mplayer uses filters internally it would be nice to be able to set them up according to your needs. also im missing the ffdshow filters like including avisynth scripts and limiting the color range.

just wanted to suggest some things i miss on your release.
except for that you do a great job and mplayer is great. i recommend it to anyone who has problems running videos on their pc.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@ExtraEye

There are so many filters and options in MPlayer that it's nearly impossible to add all of them to the GUI. You would end up with one bloated and ugly UI, I guess. And you must remember that every user needs other options, so it's the best way to only add the very basic options to the GUI. We want to keep it clear and esay-to-use. If you need any advanced options, please read the MPlayer manual (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html) and add all the options you need to "Additional MPlayer Parameters" (to be found at Tools -> Options). And please use -vf-add instad of -vf if you add any Video filters.

The multi-monitor issue is something, that is on my to-do list. You can make the overlay appear on the second monitor by adding -adapter x, where x is the number of the screen (for example 2 is my TV-Out). Then you can move the MPUI window over and you will see the video! Unfortunately fullscreen mode doesn't work yet, because MPUI goes fullscreen always on primary monitor, which means black screen. I hope I can find a way to fix it one day! Workarround for the moment: Use Compact Mode on second screen...

[ExtraEye]

Thank you very much for the reply. I tried your solution and it works perfectly so thank you very much for that :) (compact mode indeed does the strick).

about the GUI getting bloated I partly agree because adding too many options may bloat the player which right now works very well and extremely fast I must say.

Still, it is possible to add a seperate GUI that helps configure options (something seperate from the actual player).
Any user, even novice ones, would want to be able to fit some of the player's behaviour to their liking. So even if adding configurations for codecs and filters is bloating and scaring away users it isn't the case with behaviour settings.
just my point of view.
So thank you very much for your work and your replies I would look into the manual but just wanted to suggest my opinion.

Also I wanted to say the "make instant player" program is very smart and could help with many future problems so nice idea and again great job ^^

EDIT:
How do i make mplayer not center it's interface every time it plays a new video?
And how do i add several different new additional filters? with ";"?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

EDIT:
How do i make mplayer not center it's interface every time it plays a new video?

That's a feature of MPUI, you cannot change it currently. (at least for my builds)

And how do i add several different new additional filters? with ";"?

-vf-add filter1=x:y,filter2=x:y,filter3=x:y -af filter=x:y (...)

example:
-vf-add scale=640:480,unsharp=c3x3:0.5:l3x3:0.5 -af volnorm=2

[ExtraEye]

is there a way to add avisynth scripts to the files running on mplayer (like in ffdshow)?

[Henrikx]

Mplayer can open and run avs Scripts

[ExtraEye]

Mplayer can open and run avs Scripts

and aply them to any currently running file? or just ready made scripts that you have to mention the file it works on?

[Henrikx]

Scripts like :
DirectShowSource("C:\Test.avi",fps=14992.5037481259,audio=false)
#blank deinterlace line
#crop
#resize
#denoise

named Test.avs

[ExtraEye]

then that's not what i meant.
what i meant was something similiar to what you can do in the ffdshow filter (although i find it to be buggy atm). meaning the ability to specify a couple of avisynth filters that would come into action in any file the player (in this case mplayer) plays.

[Henrikx]

@ExtraEye
Sorry,than i understood you wrong.
On your question, I know unfortunately no answer...:(

[ExtraEye]

@ExtraEye
Sorry,than i understood you wrong.
On your question, I know unfortunately no answer...:(

No apologize required ^^.
Anyway I was wondering if there was any actual difference between setting the player to compact mode along with setting the setting "-vf-add scale" to the screen's resolution and using fullscreen mode? i mean any technical difference between full screen mode to window mode?

edit:
hmm for no apparent reason the script you suggested stop working suddenly (the scaling. the video is still working on the second monitor).
<vo_directx><ERROR>UpdateOverlay failed
<vo_directx><ERROR>Overlay:x1:0,y1:310,x2:1280,y2:694,w:1280,h:384
<vo_directx><ERROR>invalid rectangle

It just stopped working without me changing anything. I tried different videos and the problem persists. Also when I remove the line that tells it to work on the second monitor it works again. what the...?

[reepa]

Thanks for this unified package! MPlayer + MPUI has now replaced MPC as my media player of choice. However, your MPUI build doesn't handle URL command line parameters correctly: it treats them as local files. For example (in c:\apps\mplayer\):
MPUI.exe http://test.com/test.mp3
mplayer.exe is given a "file": c:\apps\mplayer\http:\test.com\test.mp3, which can't be opened. I replaced your MPUI.exe build with the one from MPUI's website and it works the way it should. Just a heads-up.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks for this unified package! MPlayer + MPUI has now replaced MPC as my media player of choice. However, your MPUI build doesn't handle URL command line parameters correctly: it treats them as local files. For example (in c:\apps\mplayer\):
MPUI.exe http://test.com/test.mp3
mplayer.exe is given a "file": c:\apps\mplayer\http:\test.com\test.mp3, which can't be opened. I replaced your MPUI.exe build with the one from MPUI's website and it works the way it should. Just a heads-up.

Please try MPUI.2006-10-20.zip (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/MPUI.2006-10-20.zip)

[kurt]

Thx, LoRd_MuldeR, for this useful package!

it's the first time I managed decoding via mplayer on my system with proper sound (spdif) and overlay (matrox g400). Before i was too stupid ;)
-afm hwac3, -vf yuy2
mplayer is less cpu hungry [~10-20%] than i.e. mpc+coreavc/ffdhow/xvid-decoder :)
mkv v2 (simpleblock) is also supported. great thing!

except the quicktimetrailer (remuxed in mp4): they don't seem to be supported yet.

[reepa]

Please try MPUI.2006-10-20.zip (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/MPUI.2006-10-20.zip)

The new build works great. Thanks!

[ExtraEye]

"make instant player" is a great solution for playback problems if it would be adopted. but is there a normal way to seperate the file from the program after the exe file is made? (or maybe this could be implemented into the program ^^)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

"make instant player" is a great solution for playback problems if it would be adopted. but is there a normal way to seperate the file from the program after the exe file is made? (or maybe this could be implemented into the program ^^)

Well, run the InstantPlayer, pause it, go to TEMP dir and copy the video file :p

[PANIC!]

I have a little question. When i stop a Movie and i switch from fullscreen to window mode the movie plays a little bit. This happens everytime i try this. i am using MPUI 2006-10-20 and included mplayer.

Also i have a little problem changing the keybindigs. i tried the
-input switch but couldn't get it to work. Maybe anyone else here has an idea.

[ExtraEye]

I have a little question. When i stop a Movie and i switch from fullscreen to window mode the movie plays a little bit. This happens everytime i try this. i am using MPUI 2006-10-20 and included mplayer.

happens for me too.

[ExtraEye]

mplayer's postprocessing is good for most formats but i think it ruins the picture when used on h264 sources. is there a way to make it automatically not work on such sources?
from what i understand form the mplayer manual i need to use "−pp o". but how do i make it so this paramater comes into effect only on h264 sources?

edit:
sorry for the double post

[sillKotscha]

http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/2673/loughuk0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

omg, another false positive :D

[Romario]

Finaly, after very long period of time, Mplayer devs decided to release Mplayer 1.0 Release Candidate 1.

So, it's time to update Mplayer for Windows, Lord_Mulder.

Link is http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-1.0rc1-gui.zip

Changelog is on http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@romario:
I always use the latest SVN builds by CelticDruid and I'll update as soons as a new build is there.

But I'm very busy ATM, and I'm not @home now...

[Romario]

Ok, Mulder. But, look at this, http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

[celtic_druid]

Wow, matrixview. Kind of hard to watch though or to tell what you are watching.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Finaly, after very long period of time, Mplayer devs decided to release Mplayer 1.0 Release Candidate 1.

So, it's time to update Mplayer for Windows, Lord_Mulder.

Link is http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-1.0rc1-gui.zip

Changelog is on http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog

Updated:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[Fluffbutt]

At the risk of sounding like a moron here, I LIKE that theme you've got in that first picture.

It looks very clean and crisp.

Any chance of grabbing it, or a link to it, off of you?

Thanks

[LoRd_MuldeR]

At the risk of sounding like a moron here, I LIKE that theme you've got in that first picture.

It looks very clean and crisp.

Any chance of grabbing it, or a link to it, off of you?

Thanks

http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.130.htm ;)

Just download the installer and let it run through. You won't need any additional software :)

[Fluffbutt]

Thanks Mate!

[sorin61]

I have two questions that I could not find the answer to.
1. Is there a way to determine MPlayer to take into consideration the tags for italic subtitles <i> in *.srt ?
2. Is it possible for a movie in 16:9 format to determine MPlayer to show the subtitles on the black band under the movie ?
Thank you.

[celtic_druid]

You can use vf expand to expand to 4:3 or whatever. As for the subtitles, only thing I can think of would be to convert to ssa/ass and use libass to render. That way you get pretty much full formatting. Definitely italics anyway..

example:
add "vf=expand=320:::::4/3" to your config. That way everything gets expanded to 4:3. Anything less than 320 horizontal also gets padded to 320.

[4Dude]

This looks interesting!!!

You should make a LIGHT copy that Win98se will handle....... (Maybe this one does,i dunno)

Thank you my friend!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*
Installer updated once again :D
*click* (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965)


Some information about recent MPlayer improvements:

2006.10.22, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc1 released
posted by the release team

We wish to thank the Google Summer of Code project for sponsoring the FFmpeg project. Thanks to the SoC program for 2006, the FFmpeg project was able to get help from students to implement more native codecs.

The highlights of this release are native VC-1/WMV3, On2 VP5 and VP62 (used in some Flash video files) decoding, which works even on non-Intel platforms and SSA/ASS/color subtitles.

Furthermore we can now run natively on Intel Macs (you just have to pass --disable-win32 --disable-mp3lib to configure), -endpos was finally added to MPlayer and the Windows GUI has seen a number of improvements.

Vorbis decoding has seen a big speedup, as has H.264. The optimizations to H.264 are still ongoing, but the difference should already be noticeable.

And last not least many bugs were found and fixed since pre8.

MPlayer 1.0rc1 will no longer load a file-specific configure file located in the same directory as the file you're playing, because of potential security concerns (thanks to Rudolf Polzer for pointing this out); if you want to restore the old behavior add -use-filedir-conf.

If you already have the binary codec package from pre8 you don't need to redownload it: The new 20061022 packages do not contain any new codecs, they just miss some that now work natively.

[Wurstwasser]

Congratulations for your great UI.

How can I pass arguments via commandline?

Example. "mplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram" does not work. This is, because for whatever reason mplayer does not detect this to be a playlist. So I call "mplayer -playlist URL" in general, which works.

How can I start "mpui.exe -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram", so that mpui passes the -playlist to mplayer? Also, I'd like to pass "-cache n". I know I can set both options statically to mpui, but can those be passed dynamically?

Another question. Why is this in the mplayer output? The file exists (on w2k here). Is there a way to edit mpui.exe's mplayer.exe call?

C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Now my strangest problem. I lost my file type icons in explorer of all audio files, which could be assciated with mplayer. It was after I checked the file association box in the installer. I tried to re-associate with foobar2000 audio player, but this does no more work. It's really strange, maybe someone would be kind and have a look here... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=49838&st=0&gopid=446598&#

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Congratulations for your great UI.

How can I pass arguments via commandline?

Example. "mplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram" does not work. This is, because for whatever reason mplayer does not detect this to be a playlist. So I call "mplayer -playlist URL" in general, which works.

How can I start "mpui.exe -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram", so that mpui passes the -playlist to mplayer? Also, I'd like to pass "-cache n". I know I can set both options statically to mpui, but can those be passed dynamically?

Another question. Why is this in the mplayer output? The file exists (on w2k here). Is there a way to edit mpui.exe's mplayer.exe call?

C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Now my strangest problem. I lost my file type icons in explorer of all audio files, which could be assciated with mplayer. It was after I checked the file association box in the installer. I tried to re-associate with foobar2000 audio player, but this does no more work. It's really strange, maybe someone would be kind and have a look here... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=49838&st=0&gopid=446598&#


If you want to play files in the GUI version of MPlayer (that means in MPUI) then you do not run MPlayer.exe directly! You just run MPUI.exe. You can open files with MPUI.exe "c:\my folder\my file.avi". If you want to append a file in the playlist then use MPUI.exe -enqueue "c:\my folder\my file.avi". Loading playlists MPUI.exe "c:\my folder\playlist.m3u" or URLs MPUI.exe http://www.server.com/file.mp3 works just the same way.

About file associations: I only can make sure that my Installer sets up the MPUI associations correctly, if that options is selected by user. In order to do so, I have to clean up existing associations. When other applications don't set their associations properly, then I cannot do anything about that for obvious reasons...

BTW: You can ignore the Font warning message!

[manias]

Amazing build! :)
Only thing I come across is.. using twinview (tv out).
When you drag mplayer across to the tv and play a file, it jumps back to the main screen (i.e. the pc monitor).
The GUI for mplayer (old one) does the same thing.. Any idea why?
Also when it starts playing @ monitor you can drag it across to the tv but the player's screen will be black..
In for instance zplayer when you drag the player the screen will be black while you drag, then regain picture once you let go and you are able to drag it onto the tv screen.. Only problem is that mplayer, to my knowledge, is the only xvid-streaming program around (which is what i'm trying to do - stream xvid from a site to tvout using twinview etc)

[ExtraEye]

Amazing build! :)
Only thing I come across is.. using twinview (tv out).
When you drag mplayer across to the tv and play a file, it jumps back to the main screen (i.e. the pc monitor).
The GUI for mplayer (old one) does the same thing.. Any idea why?
Also when it starts playing @ monitor you can drag it across to the tv but the player's screen will be black..
In for instance zplayer when you drag the player the screen will be black while you drag, then regain picture once you let go and you are able to drag it onto the tv screen.. Only problem is that mplayer, to my knowledge, is the only xvid-streaming program around (which is what i'm trying to do - stream xvid from a site to tvout using twinview etc)

that's exactly what's troubling me too. if only it would be fixed mplayer would be much better for me.

but also i'd like it if no postprocessing would be done on h264 files :(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

that's exactly what's troubling me too. if only it would be fixed mplayer would be much better for me.

but also i'd like it if no postprocessing would be done on h264 files :(

You can make it view the video on second screen by adding -adapter 2 to Additional MPlayer parameters in options Window.

What kind of h.264 postprocessing you talk about? If you disable postprocessing in the options window, then no postprocessing will be done! Of course h.264's Inloop Deblocking is still on, because this is how h.264 works! Disabling h.264's Inloop Deblocking means improper decoding of the video!

[ExtraEye]

i meant that when you view a new video it comes back to the other screen so i have to drag it back to the tv each and every time.

i meant to automatically turn off post-processing when h264 is played

[Wurstwasser]

Oh Lord,

thanks for your explanations ;)

About file associations: I only can make sure that my Installer sets up the MPUI associations correctly, if that options is selected by user. In order to do so, I have to clean up existing associations. When other applications don't set their associations properly, then I cannot do anything about that for obvious reasons...

Of course I can understand this. Could you give me a hint or a link (maybe to your installers source code) of what exactly happens, when doing the file association? It is because I am thinking foobar2000 does not a complete job on this, but I couldn't find out what step is missing.

EDIT. I think it's solved. Seems like foobar should delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\[filetype] before it associates the extension. (Currently it doesn't do it).

[manias]

Anyway my issues were fixed by using GOMplayer (windows only) just thought u might want to know ExtraEye :) Try it!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

i meant that when you view a new video it comes back to the other screen so i have to drag it back to the tv each and every time.

That's the auto-center feature.
I have to re-think how we could solve that problem...

i meant to automatically turn off post-processing when h264 is played

Problem is: We first set if we want to have post-processing or not and then we get to know what kind of video is in the file. That's because postprocessing is enabled (or not enabled) in the command-line when we launch MPlayer.exe. Of course MPlayer.exe only reports back the format of the video when it is already running. So I don't think it will be possible. Except postprocessing-level could be changed while MPlayer is running, but I doubt there is a command for that...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

EDIT. I think it's solved. Seems like foobar should delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\[filetype] before it associates the extension. (Currently it doesn't do it).

Yes, this has to be done!
I was wondering why my associatiosn don't work properly until I discovered that...

[Wurstwasser]

You just run MPUI.exe. You can open files with MPUI.exe "c:\my folder\my file.avi". If you want to append a file in the playlist then use MPUI.exe -enqueue "c:\my folder\my file.avi". Loading playlists MPUI.exe "c:\my folder\playlist.m3u" or URLs MPUI.exe http://www.server.com/file.mp3 works just the same way.
But have a look at the case of *.ram playlist files which have to be resolved, try http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram: I do not find a way playing them with mpui.exe (except adding -playlist in the mpui options, but then other files will not play). To play .ram with mplayer.exe, I have to use the flag "-playlist". With mpui.exe, I do not see a dynamic way. See what I mean?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hmmm, board is lagging...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

But have a look at the case of *.ram playlist files which have to be resolved, try http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram: I do not find a way playing them with mpui.exe (except adding -playlist in the mpui options, but then other files will not play). To play .ram with mplayer.exe, I have to use the flag "-playlist". With mpui.exe, I do not see a dynamic way. See what I mean?

I've just downloaded that .ram file, opened it with MPUI and it works fine!
MPUI will parse the .ram file properly and load the specified URL.

The command MPUI.exe "c:\downloaded\rc-live.ram" works fine.
Same for loading the URL diretly with MPUI.exe rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/cymru/live/cymru_dsat_g2.ra

So I don't understand your problem...

BTW: There is no -playlist command in MPUI.exe !!!

[Wurstwasser]

I've just downloaded that .ram file, opened it with MPUI and it works fine!
MPUI will parse the .ram file properly and load the specified URL.

The command MPUI.exe "c:\downloaded\rc-live.ram" works fine.
Same for loading the URL diretly with MPUI.exe rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/cymru/live/cymru_dsat_g2.ra

So I don't understand your problem...
I see what you mean, but imo it's a workaround: The typical or most likely way of calling the url would be "mpui http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram", which does not work, because mpui does not resolve then.

Same with mplayer.exe itself. A lot of people run into the error message "end of file. exiting." because they don't know they have to add "-playlist" when using .ram. With .asx, they don't have to use "-playlist", whough this is also one.

[foxyshadis]

Actually, I think most of the time it would be opened in response to a browser click, which means that it's already cached locally by the time MPUI opens it. Also: Play File works, since the common open dialog is equivalent to clicking a file in IE. Play URL doesn't, though it should. Getting Play URL and opening on command line working would probably be the same thing.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I see what you mean, but imo it's a workaround: The typical or most likely way of calling the url would be "mpui http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/live/rc-live.ram", which does not work, because mpui does not resolve then.

That's not how it is intended to work! The idea of .ram file is, that you download it in your Web-Browser and then open it with your favourite Player. The player will read the URL of the stream from that .ram file, connect to the stream and play it. Usually they will link to the .ram file on their website. So if you click on that link, your Browser will show a Download dialog and ask for an application to open the downloaded file with. That would be MPUI in your case. If you do it that way, there shouldn't be a problem.

If you want to open the stream directly (without downloading a playlist file first), then of course you will have to tell your player the URL of the Stream and not the URL of the playlist file! Anything else would be sensless. Either you open the Stream directly or you use a playlist file. That's just it.

So everything works as expected and I don't think there is anything to be fixed here...

[Liberto]

Hi; this looks really exciting (considering I've been using MPF [MPlayer Frontend]) for, like, forever...

But one question before I install everything; in the first post you write "I've just put together a full package of MPlayer for Windows (MPUI).
This package contains everything you'll need in one single download!"

But you list a second download: "MakeInstantPlayer"

Can you please provide a short description of the function/purpose/result of this additional download in the top post? (i.e. What is it? What's it for? What's it do?)

Thanks for considering!

[ExtraEye]

Hi; this looks really exciting (considering I've been using MPF [MPlayer Frontend]) for, like, forever...

But one question before I install everything; in the first post you write "I've just put together a full package of MPlayer for Windows (MPUI).
This package contains everything you'll need in one single download!"

But you list a second download: "MakeInstantPlayer"

Can you please provide a short description of the function/purpose/result of this additional download in the top post? (i.e. What is it? What's it for? What's it do?)

Thanks for considering!

makeinstant player is a different software seperate of mplayer. it's a kind of packing editor that puts video files together with mplayer creating an exe file that runs without need for any player to be installed on the system.
so you don't need it ^^

[Liberto]

@ExtraEye - Thanks for prompt response; sounds interesting.
Is there more info somewhere on InstantPlayer, or is it a case of "install it and check it out"?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@ExtraEye - Thanks for prompt response; sounds interesting.
Is there more info somewhere on InstantPlayer, or is it a case of "install it and check it out"?

It's a very simple tool, just download and check it out ;)

[EpheMeroN]

I'm having subtitle issues with the latest Full-Package of Mplayer.

A forum member not too long ago said to use -slang en -sid 0 -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-text-scale 25 in the "Additional MPlayer Parameters" section to get subs to show up nicely, and they were with my previous Full-Package installer.

Some subs for some movies show up entirely black now, and some for other movies have strange artifacting to the right of the text.

All my subs are currently in the idx/sub format.

[sorin61]

I was very glad when I saw the new version, dated 2006-11-03. The problem is, the files are infected with a trojan, reported by Kaspersky. So please clean it up and repost it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I was very glad when I saw the new version, dated 2006-11-03. The problem is, the files are infected with a trojan, reported by Kaspersky. So please clean it up and repost it.

Don't tell me about false positives again :mad:

Once again: There is no trojan or anything alike! The MPlayer builds are kindly provided by Celtic Druid, MPUI was compiled with Delphi7 Pro and the installer is made with NSIS. All sources are OpenSource and obviously there's no trojan in them !!!

Please get proper AV software or tell the author about the problem!

[Eragon4ever]

Don't tell me about false positives again :mad:

Once again: There is no trojan or anything alike! The MPlayer builds are kindly provided by Celtic Druid, MPUI was compiled with Delphi7 Pro and the installer is made with NSIS. All sources are OpenSource and obviously there's no trojan in it !!!

Please get proper AV software or tell the author about the problem!

I agree with you that it is a false positive but Kaspersky is a very good AV. I have it as well and no false positive here.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I agree with you that it is a false positive but Kaspersky is a very good AV. I have it as well and no false positive here.

Well, I don't know what I could do against that happening over and over again...

[sillKotscha]

it is a problem with the NSIS installer... LoRd_MuldeR can't do much about it... and he's right - get a proper AV software. IMHO AntiVir is on top of them all and soon after I had this false positive reported by AntiVir too, they released an updated virus definition file no 24h later (I reported them its behaviour) ... and guess what, no more false positives with NSIS installers ;)

[celtic_druid]

I think pretty much every AV software has reported false positives for NSIS installers at some time or another.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Updated*

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[EpheMeroN]

Newest Full-Package plays some HTTP music stream right after install. Unsure if this is a bug or not but thought I should mention it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Newest Full-Package plays some HTTP music stream right after install. Unsure if this is a bug or not but thought I should mention it.

No bug, just my favorite music stream :D

[sillKotscha]

No bug, just my favorite music stream :D

:D ... but favorite

unsichtbare Frau... ;)

where do I have to look to enable S/PDIF passthrough?

there aren't many audio output options, or am I missing something?

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1876/soundyb6.png (http://imageshack.us)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

:D ... but favorite

unsichtbare Frau... ;)

where do I have to look to enable S/PDIF passthrough?

there aren't many audio output options, or am I missing something?

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1876/soundyb6.png (http://imageshack.us)

We had that alread in this thread, but don't remember now :o

One moment please...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

We had that alread in this thread, but don't remember now :o

One moment please...

Here we go:

Add this to "Additional MPlayer parameters" :
-ac hwac3, (for AC-3 passthrough) or -ac hwdts, (for DTS passthrough)

The , suffx is important, so it will still play none-AC3/DTS audio!

//EDIT

I would add this as an checkbox to the options window, but it would need to extend all translations.
Something I really don't like to do *g*

[LoRd_MuldeR]

unsichtbare Frau... ;)

Hey, WIZO was an awesome band :D

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000025CRD.03._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Updated MakeInstantPlayer (http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/InstantPlayer.2006-11-10.exe) to latest version of MPlayer/MPUI/NSIS/UPX :D

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I was very glad when I saw the new version, dated 2006-11-03. The problem is, the files are infected with a trojan, reported by Kaspersky. So please clean it up and repost it.

http://www.softpedia.com/images/spyward/softpedia_clean_award_f.gif *click* (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package.shtml) :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just found this mirror by chance:
http://sakuratan.xlphp.net/mirror/Mplayer_for_Windows/

Thanks a lot to the person who made that :D

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Moved (see below)

[PANIC!]

Anyone an idea how to get the -input parameter working with mpui + mplayer? seesm like mplayer can't finde the new key config :-(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Anyone an idea how to get the -input parameter working with mpui + mplayer? seesm like mplayer can't finde the new key config :-(

Hotkeys cannot be changed for MPUI :scared:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Seems the 'new' mirror has moved:
http://lastspell.my-place.us/mirror/Mplayer_for_Windows/

Still wonder who makes that...

[helms]

I can't seem to get mplayer rc1 downloaded from the official homepage of mplayer to load the real video codec included in the windows binary codecs package downloaded from the same site and unzipped to the codecs directory. I am using the mplayer.exe from the official site along with the mpui frontend.

Is it just a problem with rc1 build on the official site or did I put the codecs in the wrong place. It worked before with the mplayer pre build I had before.

Is there a way for me to specify the directory of the codecs in the windows build? something i can type in a configuration or ini file?

[wyrd]

hi, LoRd_MuldeR.
I'm glad to meet you.
Just found this mirror by chance:
http://sakuratan.xlphp.net/mirror/Mplayer_for_Windows/
Thanks a lot to the person who made that
I've been caught.:D
It is redirect site for tirnanog.fate.jp
Transfer bandwidth of MPUI packages are 4-6GBytes/day just from softpedia,hispamp3,addict3d etc....
so, I've joined and redirect to these free hosts.(with refer from softpedia,hispamp3 so far )

also, sorry I'm toooo late to greeting you.
Could I mirror your great packages? (may not be permanently^^)

btw, sakuratan.xlphp.net banned in 1day... orz
(possibly my-place.us too...)

Regards.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

hi, LoRd_MuldeR.
I'm glad to meet you.
I've been caught.:D
It is redirect site for tirnanog.fate.jp
Transfer bandwidth of MPUI packages are 4-6GBytes/day just from softpedia,hispamp3,addict3d etc....
so, I've joined and redirect to these free hosts.(with refer from softpedia,hispamp3 so far )

I see :D

also, sorry I'm toooo late to greeting you.
Could I mirror your great packages? (may not be permanently^^)

Yeah, that would be great :)
How to send you update information ???

Thx a lot.

[wyrd]

Yeah, that would be great:)
How to send you update information ???
thank you for asking.
I intend to change it to download a file automatically in the near future. (if you wouldn't mind)
If there are problems in a site. don't hesitate to contact me.:)
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/images/email.png
best regards.

[Henrikx]

Hello,
Audio (MP3) Problem :
The sound is played at a very high pitch for a part of a second when the playback tracker is moved in the timeline.
It is terrible if I listen music with headphone.
This is so only with Mplayer.
Any Solution ....???

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hello,
Audio (MP3) Problem :
The sound is played at a very high pitch for a part of a second when the playback tracker is moved in the timeline.
It is terrible if I listen music with headphone.
This is so only with Mplayer.
Any Solution ....???

I guess that would be something to report to the MPlayer mailing list...

BTW: Do you use -af volnorm ??? If so, then try -af volnorm=2 or keep it disbaled.

[Henrikx]

THX for answer.
Do you use -af volnorm ??? If so, then try -af volnorm=2 or keep it disbaled. It was disabeld,but I tried -af volnorm=2,but the same Problem.

If you still know the old tapes on 2 spools if one has wound fast there, such a noise also was.
I hope this is formulated correctly in English

[MattO]

Mulder,
I sometimes require MPUI to passthrough the AC3 and other times I require it to decode it to stereo output. I know I can change the settings etc, but I was thinking it would be nice if I could end up with 2 shortcuts to the player, 1 with passthrough sound and 1 with decoded sound. Is this possible? I was thinking maybe an alternative .INI file?
Is there a commandline to have MPUI load an alternative .INI? (This could be very handy ;) )
Or do you know of another way I could achieve this?
Thank you

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Mulder,
I sometimes require MPUI to passthrough the AC3 and other times I require it to decode it to stereo output. I know I can change the settings etc, but I was thinking it would be nice if I could end up with 2 shortcuts to the player, 1 with passthrough sound and 1 with decoded sound. Is this possible? I was thinking maybe an alternative .INI file?
Is there a commandline to have MPUI load an alternative .INI? (This could be very handy ;) )
Or do you know of another way I could achieve this?
Thank you

There is no command-line parameter for this.
But you can put two MPUI.exe into two different directories, each with it's own MPUI.ini file...

[MattO]

Mulder, thanks for the tip.
So can I do it by just putting the MPUI.EXE file in a separate folder or do I have to copy across all of the installed files?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Mulder, thanks for the tip.
So can I do it by just putting the MPUI.EXE file in a separate folder or do I have to copy across all of the installed files?

At least MPUI.exe and MPlayer.EXE.
If you need the Codecs (WMV, QuickTime, Real, ...), then you have to copy over the "codecs" folder too.

But I got another Idea:
Make two INI files and call them like "MPUI_1.INI" and "MPUI_2.INI".
Now make two Batch files.
First Batch will copy "MPUI_1.INI" -> "MPUI.INI" and launch MPUI.EXE.
Second Batch will copy "MPUI_2.INI" -> "MPUI.INI" and launch MPUI.EXE.
This way you can avoid having two copies of everything...

[MattO]

Ah, good idea, I will give it a go, thanks.

[Hubbabub]

I would like to see a "Snapshot" function in MPUI :sly:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I would like to see a "Snapshot" function in MPUI :sly:

Ever tryed to press the "S" button? :p

[Hubbabub]

Ever tryed to press the "S" button? :p
No I haven't :)

hehe, it worked :sly:

:thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

No I haven't :)

hehe, it worked :sly:

:thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

I would add that to the "keyboard help" window, but I really don't want to change 23 language files :o
Extending multi-lang software is pain...

[EpheMeroN]

-af volnorm normalizes audio playback (which I need with my headphones) but is there another switch / option I can add to that that will prevent clipping?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

-af volnorm normalizes audio playback (which I need with my headphones) but is there another switch / option I can add to that that will prevent clipping?

Try -af volnorm=2

"2: Use several samples to smooth the variations via the standard weighted mean over past samples"

[MattO]

Hi Mulder, just saying thanks for your suggestion of the .BAT files to rename various instances of MPUI.INI to the actual MPUI.INI, it works great ;)

[MattO]

Mulder,
I use the SPDIF pass through commands, but regardless of whether I am playing a AC3 or DTS file the "clip information" always states "Channel: 2" even when I know the audio source is 5:1. Do you know why this is?

[kurt]

@MattO: try a different sound driver. for me this works (win32)

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/6854/image1jp3.jpg

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Mulder,
I use the SPDIF pass through commands, but regardless of whether I am playing a AC3 or DTS file the "clip information" always states "Channel: 2" even when I know the audio source is 5:1. Do you know why this is?

Maybe your source has more than one audio stream and currently the 2.0 stream is selected ???

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

MPlayer for Windows updated to 2006-12-03 :D

[Hubbabub]

*Update*

MPlayer for Windows updated to 2006-12-03 :D

Vielen dank dude :thanks:

[MattO]

Kurt, thanks for your suggestion, but that is what I am using.

Mulder, yes, some of my sources have multiple audios but regardless of whatever one I select the clip information still reports 2 channels.

The next time anyone plays something which they know has 5.1 AC3 or DTS sound can they please view the clip info and check what it is says, I am sure it will only report it as having 2 channels. But it would be nice if someone else can confirm this, or not. :thanks:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Kurt, thanks for your suggestion, but that is what I am using.

Mulder, yes, some of my sources have multiple audios but regardless of whatever one I select the clip information still reports 2 channels.

The next time anyone plays something which they know has 5.1 AC3 or DTS sound can they please view the clip info and check what it is says, I am sure it will only report it as having 2 channels. But it would be nice if someone else can confirm this, or not. :thanks:

Confirmed:

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5774/6chnc5.gif

Playing E:\ViDeOz\Trailer\Children of Men.mp4.
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
VIDEO: [avc1] 848x448 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=E:\ViDeOz\Trailer\Children of Men.mp4
ID_DEMUXER=mov
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=848
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=448
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=mp4a
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=272592
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=146.19
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 272.6 kbit/19.32% (ratio: 34074->176400)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=272592
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 848 x 448 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter
VO: [directx] 848x448 => 848x448 Planar YV12

[MattO]

Thanks for the confirmation, Mulder.
I feel the audio is OK, as it is just passing it through, so it still plays in 5.1 on my amp, MPlayer just doesnt identify it correctly.
But could this cause decoding problems when not using passthrough? Or does MPlayer not take into consideration this info when decoding it?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks for the confirmation, Mulder.
I feel the audio is OK, as it is just passing it through, so it still plays in 5.1 on my amp, MPlayer just doesnt identify it correctly.
But could this cause decoding problems when not using passthrough? Or does MPlayer not take into consideration this info when decoding it?

I can't check here, because I got on-board Stereo sound :o
Can anybody confirm correct 5.1 *without* pass-through?

But anyway I cannot fix it, because MPlayer reports the wrong number of channels.
The information is correctly parsed from the console by MPUI...

[ace4ker]

Thank you for your works Mulder.
This player is awesome and lightweight.
But I have a problem
I can't read subtitle in my languege(Korean),
Jappanese and Chinese.
It looks like Alien's one.
Can you tell me, how can I read subtitle?

[Gusar]

5.1 sound in Windows was deactivated some time back, because it wasn't working correctly for anything besides ac3 (channel order was wrong). Not so long ago there were patches on the mplayer mailing-list for proper channel reordering for any audio format, but there was a lot of discussion about how to implement it and there was no final decision.


@ace4ker: you have to tell mplayer the codepage of your subtitles. To do so, put this in Options->Additional mplayer parameters (replace <codepage> with the correct codepage for korean):-subcp <codepage>

If you don't know the codepage, you can make mplayer guess (example for korean):-subcp enca:kr

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Gusar: Thanks for information!

[ace4ker]

Thanks for information! Gusar.
I was input in Options->Additional mplayer parameters
-font c:\windows\fonts\ydsdj.ttf -subcp cp949
<ydsdj.ttf> is Korean true type font.

But I can't read subtitle.

[EpheMeroN]

Try -af volnorm=2

"2: Use several samples to smooth the variations via the standard weighted mean over past samples"
That works well, but I am still getting that pop-n-click clipping sound when the audio clips. Are there any other settings for volnorm to completely prevent clipping?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That works well, but I am still getting that pop-n-click clipping sound when the audio clips. Are there any other settings for volnorm to completely prevent clipping?

I think this sound is caused by "broken" sampels, due to the seeking.
It's the same when you jump through an MPEG video and see those funny colors right after the jump until the next keyframe is decoded.
I guess it has to be fixed in MPlayer, if there is a way to...

[EpheMeroN]

I think this sound is caused by "broken" sampels, due to the seeking.
It's the same when you jump through an MPEG video and see those funny colors right after the jump until the next keyframe is decoded.
I guess it has to be fixed in MPlayer, if there is a way to...
Hmmm perhaps.

Are there any special audio switches to better decode MP3 audio that uses DPLII as its "Output Mode"? I use that when I make AC3>MP3 with BeLight. I also use Normal Dynamic Compression.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hmmm perhaps.

Are there any special audio switches to better decode MP3 audio that uses DPLII as its "Output Mode"? I use that when I make AC3>MP3 with BeLight. I also use Normal Dynamic Compression.

None I'm aware of. Have a look here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#AUDIO%20FILTERS

[EpheMeroN]

Can MPlayer be set to auto-deinterlace? Or do we have to tick the option in the MPUI config each time interlaced content is being viewed?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Can MPlayer be set to auto-deinterlace? Or do we have to tick the option in the MPUI config each time interlaced content is being viewed?

In MPlayer a deinterlacer is just a normal video-filter and thus is added from the command-line. So you have to decide whether you want to load a deinterlacer or not before you open the video file. Therefore auto-detection of interlaced content cannot be supported by MPUI until the MPlayer team implements a new command-line switch for that...

[ExtraEye]

how come mplayer can't decide things depending on the given file while other players can. is there any chance that this will be added in mplayer ever?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

how come mplayer can't decide things depending on the given file while other players can. is there any chance that this will be added in mplayer ever?

MPlayer is a CLI application and thus most things are configured from the command-line, even before the application starts up. Of course they could implement something like automated interlaced detection, but I guess it would be a lot of work. And in some way it would be against the concept of setting up the video filters form the command-line. If you want to request such a feature, try your luck at MPlayer mailing-list or use your own programing skills... All that can be done form the MPUI side, is adding support for existing features of MPlayer!

[cipher]

is it just me or it doesnt seem to be able to play files with non-ansi characters (such as east asian ones) occurring either in the file name or upper directory names?

thank you

[LoRd_MuldeR]

is it just me or it doesnt seem to be able to play files with non-ansi characters (such as east asian ones) occurring either in the file name or upper directory names?

thank you

That's a limitation of MPlayer itself. It's not MPUI's fault.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've made a new version of my MPlayer for Windows installer:
http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/MPUI.2006-12-14.Light-Package.exe

The installer now has a new "MPUI Tweaks" page.
Furthermore it will automatically kill all running instances of MPUI/MPlayer using the KillProc (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=917173#post917173) plugin.
No changes to MPlayer or MPUI this time.

Please tell me if you think this one is usefull :D

[ExtraEye]

"automatically kill all running instances of MPUI/MPlayer" - usefull :)

[chichazor]

¿How can I change bright and contrast values in this version of mplayer? I tried with number keys but it seems it's blocked :confused:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

¿How can I change bright and contrast values in this version of mplayer? I tried with number keys but it seems it's blocked :confused:

Help -> Keyboard Help :D
Seems to work fine on my computer...

But you can also use the Overlay Controls in your Graphics Card configuration to set it up on a global level.

[chichazor]

Thanks, but the keyboard controls don't work on my system :(. I am using the athlon 64 compile of mplayer, I'll try with generic or different compile.

PD: Sorry for my english, I read english ok, but I find difficult to write it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks, but the keyboard controls don't work on my system :(. I am using the athlon 64 compile of mplayer, I'll try with generic or different compile.

PD: Sorry for my english, I read english ok, but I find difficult to write it.

CPU specific builds only effect MPlayer, not MPUI!
So it won't make any difference I guess.

Can other people reproduce the problem ???

[Wurstwasser]

No. Latest mplayer/mpui on w2k sp4 here.

[pinkie_1]

MPUI doesn't seem to like -vo gl...

A quick look to MPlayer's output reveals some 'parasites' (i.e. switches not introduced via custom manual config) :
"mplayer.exe -slave -identify -wid *** -colorkey 0x101010
-nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf screenshot -font
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -idx -ao dsound:device=0"
Some of these are ok, and some others aren't. But the real PITA is that -colorkey switch...
First of all, what's the need for RGB(16,16,16) ? Second of all, -colorkey isn't supported at all by the OpenGL driver (AFAIK).

Is anyone aware of a way to modify those apparently (hardcoded&enabled by default) switches in MPUI ?
Or, as an alternative, is it possible to override them somehow ?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPUI doesn't seem to like -vo gl...

A quick look to MPlayer's output reveals some 'parasites' (i.e. switches not introduced via custom manual config) :
"mplayer.exe -slave -identify -wid *** -colorkey 0x101010
-nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf screenshot -font
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -idx -ao dsound:device=0"
Some of these are ok, and some others aren't. But the real PITA is that -colorkey switch...
First of all, what's the need for RGB(16,16,16) ? Second of all, -colorkey isn't supported at all by the OpenGL driver (AFAIK).

Is anyone aware of a way to modify those apparently (hardcoded&enabled by default) switches in MPUI ?
Or, as an alternative, is it possible to override them somehow ?

MPUI is based on the DirectX/Overlay renderer.
The -colorkey switch is needed to make the video appear in the MPUI main window.
Don't try to run MPlayer with a different renderer when using MPUI!

[pinkie_1]

MPUI is based on the DirectX/Overlay renderer.
Ok, MuldeR, point taken. Thanks.
This, however, rises more questions : is this MPUI's core architecture or is it just a temporary situation ?
Will support for other output drivers be implemented in MPUI ?

Don't try to run MPlayer with a different renderer when using MPUI!
Too late...
Already tried. More than once. And MPlayer crashes every single time.
But one thing that I like is that MPUI itself doesn't freeze when doing so. :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@pinkie_1:
MPlayer is a command-line application without graphical user-interface. Nevertheless it is possible to run MPlayer.exe from the GUI application (MPUI in this case), hide the console window and make the video output appear inside the GUI. This basically works by redirecting the Overlay Video to the GUI app. In fact you can take any other window, place it on top of MPUI and you'll still see the Overlay Video "through" that window as long as that window has the correct (transparent) color - specified with -colorkey command. So Overlay is what makes MPUI work. No Overlay, no MPUI.

But where is the problem? Overlay output seems to work fine on Windows, except multi-monitor limitation.

[pinkie_1]

MPlayer is a command-line application without graphical user-interface.
:):):)
(Please don't interpret my reaction as being offensive. It's just that three years of avid MPlayer usage made me pretty much aware of the fact described by your statement.)

So Overlay is what makes MPUI work. No Overlay, no MPUI.
Thank you for the clarification.

Overlay output seems to work fine on Windows
Well, the overlay vs AnyOtherRenderingMethod issue caused intense debates and is far from being over.
As for myself, I fell in love (geez, what a statement) with MPlayer's OpenGL output driver.
So I guess that MPUI (as a GUI) simply isn't for me...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*update*

New installer uploaded:
* Included workaround for 'foreign language' problem (language will be set to English instead of 'auto' now)
* New 'MPUI Tweaks' installer page
* Check for running instances of MPlayer/MPUI during install, kill them if necessary
* Added 'Check for new Updates' feature

[LoRd_MuldeR]

We are on Top 100 on Freeware files now :eek:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/top100_downloads.php

For the moment M$ Media Player is still ahead :devil:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN revision (2006-12-20)
Now a "Prescott" build is included in the package.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[SealTooGreat]

hmmm.....gl2 produce better picture than directX renderer!!!
It's a pity that can not be used in MPUI.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

hmmm.....gl2 produce better picture than directX renderer!!!
It's a pity that can not be used in MPUI.

Try software resizer!

If your screen resolution is 1024x768 then add this to "Additional MPlayer parameters" in MPUI options window:
-sws 9 -vf-add scale=1024:-2

Then try again and go fullscreen :)

[pinkie_1]

@ SealTooGreat :
You should follow MuldeR's advice and try the soft scaling...
Here are some other tips :
"-sws 9 -vf-add scale=1024:-2:*a::*b::::*c", where
*a stands for interlaced scaling ('0' disabled&default, '1' enabled)
*b additional tuning of sws 9 (play with integer values from '1' to '10')
*c accurate rounding of the vertical scaler ('0' disabled&default, '1' enabled)

Additionally, you might wanna try replacing that '-2' with '-10', thus enabling mod16 scaling.

@ MuldeR :
As you can see, I don't find dx/overlay/mpui too repulsive for my tastes. But I'm still more fond of -vo gl... :)

[celtic_druid]

expand is also usefull to so you don't have subs/osd over the video if possible.

How is -vo winvidix? Don't think my card is supported.

[SealTooGreat]

When i said "gl2" I've meant OpenGL video output renderer and I'm pretty confused you've suggested me software resizer which doesn't improve picture at all, just resize it and nothing more. pinkie_1 pointed out about lack of support for other output drivers in MPUI(in his case is "gl" in mine is "gl2"), you've explained it and i've just stated that it's a pity that those video outputs can not be used in MPUI. Thay produce much better picture than default DirectX output video renderer in MPUI. So, as pinkie_1 have said, I guess that MPUI (as a GUI) simply isn't for me...

For little exercise :D add "-vf rgb2bgr" to "Additional MPlayer parameters" and you will see that colors on picture are much better.OpenGL renderer,"gl" and "gl2", produce similar result, but over all it's renderer not video filter.

One more thing, default subtitles settings in MPUI are awful...fonts are tooooo large....I can't find option in MPUI for fonts(Arial,Times New Roman...etc), scripts(Central European, Western...etc), font scaling, font outline thickness, Anti-alias subs, subtitle alignment, placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands/borders etc...etc...It's just fine for me, I can manage that through CONFIG file, but for newbies it will be very usefull to add those in MPUI options.....and if u don't know how to do that........ For beginning you can add some lines in CONFIG file to adjust font size

#truetype font scaling
subfont-text-scale=3.4

But, again, it would be very useful to add some subtitles options in MPUI which can write to CONGIF file. For example if I want "Times New Roman" i simply choose it in MPUI options and MPUI will write/modify CONFIG file. For people who live in central and eastern europe, as myself, i find command line in CONFIG file

# Set font encoding.
subfont-encoding=cp1250

very usefull. It displays my language letters correctly and behaves like script "EASTEUROPE(238)" in MPC.

# Placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands with OSD/subtitle rendering
vf=expand=0:-70:0:0:1

This will place subtitles out of the movie, in black borders area. Also very useful option.

[pinkie_1]

@ celtic_druid :
In theory -vo winvidix sounds promising. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to ever make it work on my NV44-cored 6200. And so, I can only say that you should try it for yourself. Maybe you're a lucky one... :)

@ SealTooGreat :
you've suggested me software resizer which doesn't improve picture at all, just resize it and nothing more.
I think you will agree that a better scaling improves the overall visual perception.
Thay produce much better picture than default DirectX output video renderer in MPUI
This issue is highly subjective&controversial. The fact that certain individuals like OpenGL over DirectX does not imply any absolute statements whatsoever.
I urge you to not open a flame war. Let's just be friendlies, okay ? :D
One more thing, default subtitles settings in MPUI are awful
Well, the way in which they are handled is less-than-perfect, I agree. Maybe we should try to make some custom configs (as you already tried), and then share them for the good of the community.

PS. I apologize for misjudging you to be a not_so_advanced_mplayer_user. Then again, your first post was rather deceiving... :p

[SealTooGreat]

@pinkie_1
I think you will agree that a better scaling improves the overall visual perception.
I agree, but with MPUI default DitectX output and "-sws 9 -vf-add scale=1024:-2", I still can not achieve gl2 quality. In fact, I can't see any deference with those additional parameters. especially considering colors. Only "-vf rgb2bgr" gives gl2 similar color result, but produce some nasty pixelization.
The fact that certain individuals like OpenGL over DirectX does not imply any absolute statements whatsoever.
Well there's no such absolute statement...but still colors of "-vo gl2" are more user-friendly to my eyes
PS. I apologize for misjudging you to be a not_so_advanced_mplayer_user. Then again, your first post was rather deceiving...
Well, you've got me...I'm not advanced_mplayer_user:D ...and I'm not intend to be one :p...as long as I have enough knowledge to make my life easier with mplayer ;)

[pinkie_1]

with MPUI default DitectX output and "-sws 9 -vf-add scale=1024:-2", I still can not achieve gl2 quality. In fact, I can't see any deference with those additional parameters. especially considering colors.
You see, -vf scale does exactly what it's name suggests, i.e. it scales...
So don't expect any funky color magic from it.
Only "-vf rgb2bgr" gives gl2 similar color result, but produce some nasty pixelization.
First of all, my guess is that you meant 'gl2-like', not 'gl2 similar'. :)
Second of all, feel free to experiment other filtering techniques, like noise/hqdn3d, unsharp/smartblur. Play with pp. Check out -vf format. Use rgb2bgr if that's what you want.

My point is that with so many filtering variables it's actually hard sometimes to go for one renderer or another.
Sometimes. ;)

[SealTooGreat]

@pinkie_1
@LoRd_MuldeR
pinkie_1, scale does not just scale it also performs a YUV<−>RGB colorspace conversion!!! Are you guys aware that there's a BIG color output difference between dx and gl/gl2 renderer or it's only just me?!.....So I've been confused why both of you have suggested me scale when i was talking about gl2 vs dX. Is there any way, using MPUI default DirectX, to achieve those "gl2-like" output colors, besides "-vf rgb2bgr" (produce some nasty pixelization)?!Once again, will support for other output drivers(including gl/gl2) be implemented in MPUI ?
@pinkie_1
Thanx for pointed out some other filtering techniques.

[foxyshadis]

The color problem is just a TV/PC levels conversion issue in your video drivers; using overlay mode will always use TV levels, which is usually correct, whereas using VMR modes it's sort of a grab bag on which you'll get, based on your card & driver version. If gl mode gives you TV levels, it'll look better. At least, it should be an option due to this problem (and gl mode is faster on nvidia cards anyway).

The only diference between renderers is supposed to be speed and quality of scaling, but this is one of the side-effects of unspecified color conversion.

[SealTooGreat]

@foxyshadis
BIG thanx!!!
...hehehe...I've found that i have 2 nvidia video drivers installed:eek:, old ones(installed during motherboard's drivers installation) and ForceWare Release 93.71. Well, I've killed those two and installed ForceWare v93.81 with DirectX 9.0c December 2006 update. Now, I've finally solved bad color output in default MPUI dX renderer. Still found imperceptible dX output color difference against gl.....but I can live with that... foxyshadis, thanx again!!!

Now, if only MPUI subtitles options are managed correctly...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@SealTooGreat
What exactly is subtitle problem?
I never use subtitles, so I never encountered any problems ;)

[SealTooGreat]

@LoRd_MuldeR
What exactly is subtitle problem?
Read my earlier posts
I never use subtitles, so I never encountered any problems
How the hell are you watching French, Spanish, Potoguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Korean, Japanese...etc...movies?! :rolleyes:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR

Read my earlier posts

Too much work :D

How the hell are you watching French, Spanish, Potoguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Korean, Japanese...etc...movies?! :rolleyes:

I watch either German or English movies. No need for more... :p

[SealTooGreat]

:):):)

[pinkie_1]

@ MuldeR :
I think I know where SealTooGreat points at. Have you ever tried MPF ?
If not, here are some links :
http://mpf.dzm.hu/index.php
http://mpf.dzm.hu/getfile.php?file=mplayer_setup_0-18-2.exe (direct dload)
Although it's development seems to be frozen, it has some nice features, and it does handle subs better than MPUI.

@ SealTooGreat :
scale does not just scale it also performs a YUV<−>RGB colorspace conversion!!!
IIRC -vf scale achieves a true colorspace conversion only when accompanied by -vf format. Try for instance enforcing RGB 15/16/24/32.
Now, if only MPUI subtitles options are managed correctly...
Inexact statement. There is no bug/error in the way MPUI handles subs. It is true, though, that it's approach is rather minimalistic... ;)
I never use subtitles
How the hell are you watching French, Spanish, Potoguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Korean, Japanese...etc...movies?!
No need to be sarcastic. Accept people as they are.
:):):)
Please read carefully the forum rules.
edit : as requested,
11) Don't post just to increase your number of posts. If you have nothing to say on a certain matter then don't post. The number of posts on this board has no direct relation to the experience of a member.

[SealTooGreat]

@pinkie_1
Thanx for MPF link.Yep, MPUI(as a GUI) subs approach is less then minimalistic...i can't even change default arial font via config. But what's the point of MPUI subs suggestion when MuldeR've already stated: "Too much work" and he's not a developer too. Anyway, I'm grateful for his MPUI releases. It was not my intention to be sarcastic....and please, I've already got answer from LoRd_MuldeR, there's no need to speak in his name. I always accept people as they are, and there's a plenty of mplayer inexperiance people who use MPUI and don't watch German and English movies only and need those GUI subs options. But thanx again, i'll try to be careful in future posts. As for the forum rules, i couldn't find any limitation for my:) :) :) post... point me to wright text line.

[kedu]

I use Vista Ultimate system (RTM). I have a High Definition Audio Realtek card.
When I used MPC or PowerDVD I have not problem with AC3 or DTS sound on my JBL 5.1 audio. I used SPDIF

On MPlayer I have not ac3 :(
I add parametr -ac hvac3, but I receive error (see capture)

http://www.icpnet.pl/~noise/capture.jpg

Stereo play normally
Can you help me, please?

[pinkie_1]

On MPlayer I have not ac3
What's that supposed to mean ?
Troubles with multichannel audio streams in general, with AC3 streams particularly... ;)
I add parametr -ac hvac3, but I receive error
Right... but where's the error ?!
BTW, you haven't posted a very helpful log.
-af volnorm=2 -ac hvac3,
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
Stereo play normally
Remember that you should specify always the no. of channels (with -channels), when dealing with multichannel streams. :p

[kedu]

Right... but where's the error ?!


Is on the botton my screen capture. This is "Unable to play media"


BTW, you haven't posted a very helpful log.


where can I find this helpful log?

-channels 6

when I put this parameter sound is but I think it is not the same good effect as I have in Media Player Classic and Power DVD.
MPC and PDVD direct audio data to my JBL amplifier and it process sound. And on the panel then I see DIG.OPT/Surround/Dolby. I think direct audio data means SPDIF.
In MPlayer I see only DIG.OPT/Surround/Prologic/PCM and sound is worst :( because software in PC control it :(

Sorry for my English :(

[jaask]

I use Vista Ultimate system (RTM). I have a High Definition Audio Realtek card.
When I used MPC or PowerDVD I have not problem with AC3 or DTS sound on my JBL 5.1 audio. I used SPDIF

On MPlayer I have not ac3 :(
I add parametr -ac hvac3, but I receive error (see capture)

Stereo play normally
Can you help me, please?
Try to change the "Sound output driver" to Win32, and that the "Additional MPlayer parameters" are -sws 9 -afm hwac3,

I got my system to work with those settings.

[pinkie_1]

@ kedu :
where can I find this helpful log?
Use "-msglevel ao=9:demux=9" and post the whole output.

@ jaask :
'-sws 9" doesn't concern audio stream(s) handling.
About "-afm hwac3,"... First of all, it is meant to be used on mixed AC3/DTS content, not on pure AC3 content. Second of all, when specifying codec families, the coma [,] isn't really needed because the fall back is enabled by default.
As a side note, I don't use now, nor do I intend to, Vista. If you tried '-ao win32" and it worked, then it's ok.

BTW, I see you didn't use "-channels". Are you sure that you actually played back multichannel streams ? :)

[jaask]

BTW, I see you didn't use "-channels". Are you sure that you actually played back multichannel streams ? :)
Yes I think I have, I've played many movies with either DD or DTS, and my receiver decodes it to 5.1. Or are we even talking about the same thing? :)

[kedu]

I connect my second computer with SPDIF and it is the same problem :( I do always you said :(
Meybi it is foult vista :(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I connect my second computer with SPDIF and it is the same problem :( I do always you said :(
Meybi it is foult vista :(

I just read in an article that Vista disables all Digital Outputs unless you use 'Vista certified' hardware with encrypted output, such as HDMI.
That's part of all that DRM crap!

I highly recommend you uninstall that shit, bring it back to store and get your money back !!!

// EDIT

If you want to read yourself:
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7675&pagtype=samechan

[foxyshadis]

It only disables digital when protected codepath is activated (which is usually upon inserting an AACS-encrypted disk, possibly when WMV encryption is activated as well). I don't think it activates for CSS at all. Not that I don't agree it's crap.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows updated!

* MPlayer builds updated to 2007-01-21
* MPlayer RC-1 Try-2 fixed a security issue!

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[Warpman]

h264 +vbr mp3 in mp4 stil broken :(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

h264 +vbr mp3 in mp4 stil broken :(

Report your problem to the MPlayer Mailing-List and provide a detailed Error Report plus a download-link for a broken Sample File.
Then hope the devs will fix it ;)

[Warpman]

the problem is in the mailing list with samples ... (not from me though) ffplay.exe plays the file fine ...
sadly not mplayer...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

the problem is in the mailing list with samples ... (not from me though) ffplay.exe plays the file fine ...
sadly not mplayer...

Then someone of the dev team, who knows about the details, needs to find out what's the difference in the way ffplay and MPlayer handle the file and why MPlayer doesn't work properly. Since I'm not a MPlayer developer, I won't be able to fix your problem. All I can do is updating the build, once it has been fixed. Sorry...

[celtic_druid]

libmpdemux and libavformat both have mov/mp4 parsers. Try adding -demuxer lavf to force lavf since that is what ffplay would use. If it works then at least you know where the problem is.

[lasuocera]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR,
firefox is not installed on my computer, so i'm not able to download MPlayer for Windows version 2007-01-21.
Bye!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR,
firefox is not installed on my computer, so i'm not able to download MPlayer for Windows version 2007-01-21.
Bye!

You definitely should get yourself a proper web-browser, such as Firefox, SeaMonkey/Mozilla, Opera, and so on... :rolleyes:

Nevertheless, have a look here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=21340

[lasuocera]

Thank you!

[phonique]

Cheers dude for sharing....

[sheppaul]

What a shame!!!
Alternative links do not work at all for me.
Any reason to block IE users?
I'm afraid to be forced to give up trying MPUI for such an idiot thing.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What a shame!!!
Alternative links do not work at all for me.
Any reason to block IE users?
I'm afraid to be forced to give up trying MPUI for such an idiot thing.

Yes, there is a reason to tell the user that his browser doesn't work properly. I don't understand why anybody should use a commercial browser that doesn't display validated(!) HTML 4.01 conform code as it should, when there are various free alternatives that work 100% fine :rolleyes:

But nobody will force you to do anything, it's just a friendly advice.
And as long as this software is provided for free, IMHO you can't claim anything...

Nevertheless, if you look at the first post, you'll find more than one DL location :p

[WeaponX]

There is a bug with mplayer.exe. When I run MPUI.exe, and play a realmedia video (.rmvb), I can only hear audio, not see the video. However, if I replaced the mplayer.exe with the one compiled by someone at oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php, the video plays perfectly.

It appears mplayer.exe is not connecting to the real codecs.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

There is a bug with mplayer.exe. When I run MPUI.exe, and play a realmedia video (.rmvb), I can only hear audio, not see the video. However, if I replaced the mplayer.exe with the one compiled by someone at oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php, the video plays perfectly.

It appears mplayer.exe is not connecting to the real codecs.

When you submit a bug report, send more info please.
Post at least your log file and DL link to the broken sample file.

MPlayer.exe form my pack is the latest SVN build by Celtic Druid.
Maybe something got broken in ths revision or it's a build issue.
Did you try to select another build in installer? (like Generic instead a CPU specific one)

[WeaponX]

Here's a realmedia video that mplayer only plays the audio:
rtsp://a1133.v0326e.c326.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1133/326/3f25bb28/bmgent.download.akamai.com/326/click2music.ca/media_2/large_0453_restofmylife_full_vidhi.rm

That video displays the same problem for mplayer as all the realmedia videos (.rm/.rmvb) I have on my hard drive.

Here's the mplayer output log:
command line:
"C:\Program Files\MPlayer\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify -wid 7145024
-colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf
screenshot -font C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -softvol -softvol-max 1000
-priority abovenormal -ao dsound:device=0
D:\large_0453_restofmylife_full_vidhi.rm

MPlayer dev-SVN-r21977-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: abovenormal
107 audio & 227 video codecs
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing D:\large_0453_restofmylife_full_vidhi.rm.
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: Audio Stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
Stream description: Video Stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
ID_VIDEO_ID=1
VIDEO: [RV30] 320x240 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name: The Rest of My Life
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=name
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=The Rest of My Life
author: Sloan
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=author
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=Sloan
copyright: © 2003 ViK.Recordings/BMG Canada Inc.
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME2=copyright
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE2=© 2003 ViK.Recordings/BMG Canada Inc.
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=3
ID_FILENAME=D:\large_0453_restofmylife_full_vidhi.rm
ID_DEMUXER=real
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=RV30
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=320
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=240
ID_VIDEO_FPS=15.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=cook
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=175.00
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv3.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv33260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30335652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/2.27% (ratio: 4005->176400)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=32040
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffcook
Video: no video
Starting playback...
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
[A
[KVolume: 10 %
[A
[K

The problem exists in both the generic and the p4 mplayer builds.

[wyrd]

as temporality:
copy realvideo-codec(drv23260.dll,drv33260.dll,drv43260.dll) to your mplayer current directory.
(e.g. C:\Program Files\MPlayer for Windows\)

also,you can report about request/improvement/bug for mplayer.
mplayer ML:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=rmvb&author=&group=gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and&%5B=3&TOPDOC=10&xP=rmvb&xFILTERS=Gcomp.video.mplayer.user---A
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Got on interesting information:

Previous [MPlayer] builds only loaded binary codecs from PATH, not ./codecs which caused some problems for people with rm/wmv

So I think it will be fixed with the next update ASAP :D

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

MPlayer builds updated to 2007-01-26. There was a bug introduced in the previous builds, so DLLs from ./codecs folder were not loaded. This broke Real and WMV playback on some systems. Those problems should be fixed now! Furthermore NSIS was updated to v2.23.

Note: For some reason the new builds say "MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team", but as far as I can say, this doesn't cause any problems. So you don't need to care about it...

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[celtic_druid]

My svn build was out of date so version.sh wasn't able to detect the revision. The Prescott build displays it correctly, since I updated svn.

[EpheMeroN]

Can you guys recommend some nice post-processing that you use when using MPlayer w/ TV-Out?? I have a 55'' HD Widescreen Panasonic and lowres xvid would benefit from some nice post-processing.

[Seb.26]

I've test this player, but AC3 streams cause troubles ...
... something I've missed ? :(

[Edit] the problem is about little-endian AC3 ... I think ...

[chichazor]

¿There is a way to render ass/ssa subtitles with win32 mplayer? I know that it's possible in linux but I don't see the option in mpui, maybe with a command line option...

[celtic_druid]

Add ass=true to your config file.
For command line, just add -ass

[chichazor]

Thanks, it works without problems with your builds ^^

[rvm]

It doesn't work for me. If I add -ass, mplayer crashes.


MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

...

VO: [directx] 624x352 => 624x352 Planar YV12
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
[ass] PlayResX undefined, setting 511.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

All MPlayer builds have been updates to latest SVN revision.
Furthermore there is an optimized build for Intel Core 2 now!

> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

Updated my MakeInstantPlayer tool.
It now includes the latest generic build of MPlayer and the latest NSIS compiler.
Furthermore I added a few hints.

Follow MPlayer for Windows (http://mplayer.de.gg/) download link.

[_xxl]

No speed increase in Intel Core 2 builds, unless the developers start working on multithreaded support in mplayer.FFmpeg can't handle 20MBit/s h264-stream: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-February/051816.html and evob's: ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/evob/Departed%20Trailer.EVO

[LoRd_MuldeR]

No speed increase in Intel Core 2 builds, unless the developers start working on multithreaded support in mplayer.FFmpeg can't handle 20MBit/s h264-stream: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-February/051816.html and evob's: ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/samples/evob/Departed%20Trailer.EVO

Hmmm, we should be happy to have a working OpenSource h.264 player at all.
Or is there any free decoder available that performs better? I'm not aware of any :(

BTW: Did you try -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all for speedup?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

By the way: Could you please test -vo gl with latest MPUI package.
It's seems to work now, which wasn't possible when I tested a while ago.
But resizing the video or going to fullscreen is broken on my system.

I wonder whether this is a MPUI problem or a MPlayer bug...

[_xxl]

True.But this decoder can't be used for evobs.

[wyrd]

Thank you for your great works,MuldeR
By the way: Could you please test -vo gl with latest MPUI package.
It's seems to work now, which wasn't possible when I tested a while ago.
But resizing the video or going to fullscreen is broken on my system.
It reproduce here too.

It doesn't work for me. If I add -ass, mplayer crashes.

Hi,rvm
Could you test my own build ?
here (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/mplayer_test/)(dev-SVN-r22104-3.4.2 generic)

Best Regards

[rvm]

Hi,rvm
Could you test my own build ?
here (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/mplayer_test/)(dev-SVN-r22104-3.4.2 generic)

Works!

Thank you :)

[EpheMeroN]

Why was the PIII CPU option during install taken out in this release? I have a PIII 700mhz computer, and I just chose "Runtime CPU Detection (Generic)" this time.

Also, on the next release can you have all 3 file associations options available during install? It'd be a nice feature to have so we don't have to re-set the file associations after install.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Why was the PIII CPU option during install taken out in this release? I have a PIII 700mhz computer, and I just chose "Runtime CPU Detection (Generic)" this time.

Celtic Druid did not make a special P3 build this time.
I guess he stopped making P3 builds, because he started making Core2 builds.

Nevertheless the Generic builds will work just fine on your P3 CPU.

// EDIT

Here is a P3 build of MPlayer (Jan 18, 2007), you can check whether this is one works any better for you:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/builds/mplayer-p3-svn-21955.7z

I'll stick to Celtic's builds for my package anyway.

[EpheMeroN]

Thanks. Celtic Druid if you're reading this don't stop the PIII builds please!

@LoRd_MuldeR: I found a bug with the "Set File Associations" option after install. After install I like to remove the 'Audio Files' and 'Playlist Files' options from the "Set File Associations" menu. However, now when I uncheck the 2 options nothing happens. It says completed, but file associations stay the same. When I click on "Set File Associations" again all 3 options are still highlighted.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks. Celtic Druid if you're reading this don't stop the PIII builds please!

@LoRd_MuldeR: I found a bug with the "Set File Associations" option after install. After install I like to remove the 'Audio Files' and 'Playlist Files' options from the "Set File Associations" menu. However, now when I uncheck the 2 options nothing happens. It says completed, but file associations stay the same. When I click on "Set File Associations" again all 3 options are still highlighted.

The "Set File Associations" tool works as expected: The job of this tool is to set file associations for MPlayer, neither to remove those associations nor to make any associations for other applications! So if you uncheck certain options, then associations for those files won't be changed. I'm pretty sure this works properly. Of course if associations were already changed before, then you cannot undo those changes with a second run of the "Set File Associations" tool! If you want to associate files with a different application than MPlayer, that will be the job of that application, not MPlayer's job.

[EpheMeroN]

Hmmmm. In previous versions when I unchecked Audio / Playlist Files the file associations went back to the programs that I was using prior to MPlayer so something had to change with this new release.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hmmmm. In previous versions when I unchecked Audio / Playlist Files the file associations went back to the programs that I was using prior to MPlayer so something had to change with this new release.

Sorry, but nothing has changed, except the MPlayer builds.
MPUI.exe and SetFileAssoc.exe even were not re-compiled, so it's exactly the same binary file...

[EpheMeroN]

Really? Okay. Also, choosing the Generic CPU Runtime option during install turned out to be a bad idea. MPlayer kept freezing each time I tried to play a video file. I grabbed the PIII build you linked to and all is well again, thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Also, choosing the Generic CPU Runtime option during install turned out to be a bad idea. MPlayer kept freezing each time I tried to play a video file.

That definitely shouldn't happen :(

[Zhelkus]

Nice automated setup! Thanks a lot! :D

[pinkie_1]

Really? Okay. Also, choosing the Generic CPU Runtime option during install turned out to be a bad idea. MPlayer kept freezing each time I tried to play a video file. I grabbed the PIII build you linked to and all is well again, thanks!
I know a guy with a similar problem. He's on an older Athlon XP (Mendocino, I think) and he's having problems with both the cpu-specific and the GRD builds. Surprise, surprise... P3 build works just fine. :D

Although I, like many others, have never run into problems of that sort, this shouldn't be a reason to obliterate the P3 compiles...

EDIT :
Mulder, Wyrd, how the heck did you get -vo gl to run with MPUI ? ;)

[wyrd]

Mulder, Wyrd, how the heck did you get -vo gl to run with MPUI ? ;)
Hi,pinkie_1 :)
Hmm??, simply add to "tools -> options -> Additional MPlayer parameters"

MPlayer output:command line:
"C:\Program Files\MPlayer for Windows\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify
-wid 1311496 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100
-vf screenshot -font C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -softvol -softvol-max
1000 -ao dsound:device=0 -vo gl "C:\Program Files\MPlayer for
Windows\mewmew-vorbis-ssa.mkv"

MPlayer dev-SVN-r22096-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
.
. ## abbreviation ##
.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
[swscaler @ 00CD8D20]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
VO: [gl] 640x480 => 640x480 BGRA

In the result:
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mplayer_gl_t.jpg (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mplayer_gl.jpg)
sorry,if i'm wrong.
regards

[LoRd_MuldeR]

In the result:
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mplayer_gl_t.jpg (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mplayer_gl.jpg)
sorry,if i'm wrong.
regards

Yes, exactly what I get.
I still wonder whether this is a MPlayer bug or something is wrong on the MPUI side...

Does anybody know about a MPlayer fron-end with working GL output?

[pinkie_1]

simply add to "tools -> options -> Additional MPlayer parameters"
Nope, not workin' here... :p
And I tried it on-the-fly (i.e. within MPUI), via .ini, even via MPlayer's config.
Does anybody know about a MPlayer fron-end with working GL output?
MPF : http://mpf.dzm.hu/download.php
smplayer : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185512
Both are tested and working.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPF : http://mpf.dzm.hu/download.php
smplayer : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185512
Both are tested and working.

That "MPF" doesn't even have embedded video, looks like very early development state.

SMPlayer shows exactly the same behavior as MPUI when GL renderer is selected:
Works as long as you don't resize or go to full screen.

Conclusion: MPlayer's OpenGL renderer currently is broken, at least for Win32.

[pinkie_1]

That "MPF" doesn't even have embedded video, looks like very early development state.
No, it doesn't.
Still gl/gl2 work, don't they ?
SMPlayer shows exactly the same behavior as MPUI when GL renderer is selected:
Works as long as you don't resize or go to full screen.
options --> preferences --> mplayer --> "run mplayer in it's own window" --> fully functional gl/gl2 rendering.
Nope, not workin' here...
Home PC :
- athlon xp (barton) @ 1.8 GHz (non-oc), nvidia 6200 (nv 44)
- win xp sp2 (32 bit), FW 93.81 driver, directx 9.0c (december '06)
- 02.02.07 build of mplayer/mpui

Tested several xvid/h264 encodings, messed with gl/gl2 suboptions, all available sws modes, (no)double/(no)dr, enforced several output colorspaces...
The results were pretty much the same. For instance :
VDec: vo config request - 512 x 304 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.68:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.6842
[swscaler @ 00CBED20]No accelerated colorspace conversion found
[swscaler @ 00CBED20]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr32 special converter
VO: [gl] 512x304 => 512x304 RGBA
vo: win32: running at 1024x768 with depth 32
[gl] Could not create GL context!
[gl] Creating 512x304 texture...
[gl] Resize: 512x304

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module:
filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well, it seems that MPlayer's OpenGL renderer is only broken for embedded video.
Since MPUI uses embedded video, there currently is no way to use OpenGL renderer properly.

Let's hope they'll fix that soon. Until then, you can still use DirectX/Overlay which should work fine...

[EpheMeroN]

I know a guy with a similar problem. He's on an older Athlon XP (Mendocino, I think) and he's having problems with both the cpu-specific and the GRD builds. Surprise, surprise... P3 build works just fine. :D

Although I, like many others, have never run into problems of that sort, this shouldn't be a reason to obliterate the P3 compiles...

I feel the same way man! Please keep the P3 compiles comin'.

[pinkie_1]

Well, it seems that MPlayer's OpenGL renderer is only broken for embedded video.
So it seems...
However, focus on the example I've submitted :
[gl] Could not create GL context!
[gl] Creating 512x304 texture...
When using gl/gl2 rendering, MPlayer itself tries to output the smallest texture (with power-of-two dimensions) that can enclose the frame.
But a GUI based on embedded windows imposes limitations : fixed size textures (window size) not having strictly enforced power-of-two dimensions.

So maybe it's fair to assume that MPlayer's OpenGL-based renderering isn't b0rked by itself, instead just hindered by GUIs relying upon embedded windows... :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

Updates MPlayer builds to latest SVN revision.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

We are sending you this email to let you know that we are now
providing two mirrors for the installation files of your product
"MPlayer for Windows (Full Package) 1.2 2007-02-11".

Both mirrors are on dedicated servers, of which one is located in Florida,
USA (Softpedia US mirror) and the other in Bucharest, Romania (Softpedia
RO mirror).

You can see this on the Softpedia download page for your product at:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package-Download-55997.html

The full review page for your product is:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package.shtml

"MPlayer for Windows (Full Package) 1.2 2007-02-11" has also been granted the Softpedia 100% CLEAN Award.

Sincerely, The Softpedia Team

Sounds like good news to me :cool:

[HeadBangeR77]

My congrats - Softpedia is a very popular site! :)

cheers,
HDBR77

[EpheMeroN]

Is the PIII build back in latest package? Or do I just have wishful thinking? :P

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is the PIII build back in latest package? Or do I just have wishful thinking? :P

Celtic didn't make one, so the answer is "no".
Are there still problems with the Generic build on your PC? :(

[EpheMeroN]

Celtic didn't make one, so the answer is "no".
Are there still problems with the Generic build on your PC? :(
I haven't tested the latest generic build from the current release you just packaged. The previous gave me many freezing/crashing issues though. When I used the PIII build you linked to, it worked like a charm. I'll test the latest package you put together in a few hours and let you know how it goes. Are they any type of debug options I can make when testing to upload here for analysis?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I haven't tested the latest generic build from the current release you just packaged. The previous gave me many freezing/crashing issues though. When I used the PIII build you linked to, it worked like a charm. I'll test the latest package you put together in a few hours and let you know how it goes. Are they any type of debug options I can make when testing to upload here for analysis?

In case it still crashes, please post your Log.

[EpheMeroN]

Just tested latest full package using "generic build" again. It doesn't crash anymore, but it still has many random hiccups in playback including freezing, jerky playback, frame skipping, etc. It's all random too.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just tested latest full package using "generic build" again. It doesn't crash anymore, but it still has many random hiccups in playback including freezing, jerky playback, frame skipping, etc. It's all random too.

Did you watch your CPU load?
Maybe you get 100% CPU load and that is causing the problem ???

[SealTooGreat]

Quote:
Does anybody know about a MPlayer fron-end with working GL output?
MPF : http://mpf.dzm.hu/download.php
smplayer : http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=185512
Both are tested and working.
GMplayer also works with gl/gl2 output! :D

[LoRd_MuldeR]

GMplayer also works with gl/gl2 output! :D

GMPlayer is not a GUI front-end to MPlayer, it's MPlayer with "built-in" GUI. That's a difference !!!

So far, all front-ends for the CLI version of MPlayer either don't have embedded video (which I find a huge drawback) or the OpenGL output doesn't work properly (breaks as soon as you resize or go fullscreen). So there currently seems no way to use OpenGL renderer with embedded video. That's just it.

Nevertheless, if you want to use GL renderer with MPUI try this
-vo gl -vf-add dsize=1280:-2 (replace 1280 with your horizontal screen res)
and then go fullscreen. Ugly workaround, but it does work.

[Chipstra]

bug? report...

command line:
"D:\Bin\MP\MPlayer for Windows\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify -wid
5964158 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf
screenshot -font C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal -ao
dsound:device=0 -sws 9 -af volnorm=2 O:\DU-p10.avi

MPlayer dev-SVN-r22190-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Setting process priority: abovenormal
107 audio & 227 video codecs
C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing O:\DU-p10.avi.
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 24bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=O:\DU-p10.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=dvsd
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=28800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_LENGTH=241.52
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 720x576 Packed YUY2
VideoDecoder::SetExtAttr: registry failure
Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=qdv
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 720x576


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

No problem with the MPC...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

bug? report...

command line:
"D:\Bin\MP\MPlayer for Windows\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify -wid
5964158 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf
screenshot -font C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal -ao
dsound:device=0 -sws 9 -af volnorm=2 O:\DU-p10.avi

MPlayer dev-SVN-r22190-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Setting process priority: abovenormal
107 audio & 227 video codecs
C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing O:\DU-p10.avi.
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 24bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=O:\DU-p10.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=dvsd
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=28800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_LENGTH=241.52
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 720x576 Packed YUY2
VideoDecoder::SetExtAttr: registry failure
Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=qdv
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00CDED70]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 720x576


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

No problem with the MPC...

1. Did you choose the suitable MPlayer build for your type of CPU during install?

2. Does it happen with all files you try to play or only with this specific AVI file?

3. What is the audio and video format used in that AVI file?

[SealTooGreat]

@LoRd_MuldeR
Do you know anyone who compiles gmplayer builds on regular bases?!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd_MuldeR
Do you know anyone who compiles gmplayer builds on regular bases?!

1. http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
2. http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/

[Chipstra]

1. Did you choose the suitable MPlayer build for your type of CPU during install?

2. Does it happen with all files you try to play or only with this specific AVI file?

3. What is the audio and video format used in that AVI file?

1. I choose the "MPUI.2007-02-11.Full-Package.exe" build. Selected Pentium 4

2. No, with wav files I have no troubles and even .iso (containing a dvd) plays :) . Normaly I must first mount the iso.

3. audio = no audio

video = DV Type 2 AVI - OpenDML (AVI v2.0) // dvsd codec - I have the Matrox RT2500 on board and use the Matrox dv codec

...............
I read in the report:
using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
this is not RGB24 instead of BGR24 ??

[LoRd_MuldeR]

1. I choose the "MPUI.2007-02-11.Full-Package.exe" build. Selected Pentium 4

2. No, with wav files I have no troubles and even .iso (containing a dvd) plays :) . Normaly I must first mount the iso.

3. audio = no audio

video = DV Type 2 AVI - OpenDML (AVI v2.0) // dvsd codec - I have the Matrox RT2500 on board and use the Matrox dv codec

...............

According to MPlayer's codec list "Sony Digital Video (DV)" is supported.
But it also says, that the codec file is "qdv.dll", which is not included in the "essential" codecs package.

Can you please grab qdv.dll from windows-all-20061022.zip (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-20061022.zip) and put into the "MPlayer for Windows\codecs" folder?

If it still doesn't work, please re-install with "Runtime CPU Detection" and try again.

[Chipstra]

LoRd MuldeR:
According to MPlayer's codec list "Sony Digital Video (DV)" is supported.
But it also says, that the codec file is "qdv.dll", which is not included in the "essential" codecs package.

Can you please grab qdv.dll from windows-all-20061022.zip (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-20061022.zip) and put into the "MPlayer for Windows\codecs" folder?
qdv.dll is in the codecs folder now.
If it still doesn't work, please re-install with "Runtime CPU Detection" and try again.
I reinstalled and selected "Runtime CPU Detection" , but no succes :scared:


I try to play a Matrox rt2500 captured avi.
Error report:
command line:
"D:\Bin\MP\MPlayer for Windows\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify -wid
2490902 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf
screenshot -font C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal -ao
dsound:device=0 -sws 9 M:\DREAMMAIL\dreammailCap1.avi

MPlayer dev-SVN-r22190-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: abovenormal
107 audio & 227 video codecs
C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINNT\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing M:\DREAMMAIL\dreammailCap1.avi.
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (1 superindexchunks).
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 24bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: Matrox MQSink Filter . Format: 6. Build: 2.0.0.269
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=Matrox MQSink Filter . Format: 6. Build: 2.0.0.269
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=M:\DREAMMAIL\dreammailCap1.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=dvsd
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=28800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
ID_LENGTH=2818.00
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.3333
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 768x576 why 768?? the clip is 720 Packed YUY2
VideoDecoder::SetExtAttr: registry failure
Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=qdv
Audio: no sound ?? // sound is in a separate wav file
Starting playback...
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 8
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00D30D70]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 768x576 ??? 768


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Chipstra: Can you please provide a short sample file?

[Chipstra]

@Chipstra: Can you please provide a short sample file?

I have big trouble now. The last avi I try to play is inaccessible. "Error performing inpage operation" in w2k

see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q141117


..........

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have big trouble now. The last avi I try to play is inaccessible. "Error performing inpage operation" in w2k

see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q141117

Well, interesting reading on how Windows "abuses" it's Memory Manager for copying small files, indeed.
But in what way is this related to the original problem that MPlayer doesn't play your AVI?

Reboot your PC and when the problem still occurs, let "chkdsk /F" run through your disk.
Then please upload a short sample of the problematic AVI file...

[Chipstra]

Well, interesting reading on how Windows "abuses" it's Memory Manager for copying small files, indeed.
But in what way is this related to the original problem that MPlayer doesn't play your AVI?

Reboot your PC and when the problem still occurs, let "chkdsk /F" run through your disk.


Then please upload a short sample of the problematic AVI file...



My last action was closing Mplayer and then I try to load the avi in Premiere 6.5 to cut out a sample for you.
I run Diskeeper first (125gb external firewire drive)
Tomorrow, if the problem is solved, I send you a sample.

thnx



..........

[celtic_druid]

Pretty much everytime there is a crash it is on a P4. mplayer doesn't seem to like P4's, at least not under windows. Probably the file will play ok on other CPU's.

[Chipstra]

Then please upload a short sample of the problematic AVI file...

Ok, LoRd_MuldeR : http://www.raadsbesluit200.nl/test/matrox-dv-capture.rar

4 sec. - 12mb

.....

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Ok, LoRd_MuldeR : http://www.raadsbesluit200.nl/test/matrox-dv-capture.rar

4 sec. - 12mb

Okay, here are the results:

The AVI file from your sample crashes here too. Same error.
So it is not a problem related to P4, since I'm running AthlonXP.

Then I tried to play your file by forcing MPlayer's internal ffmpeg DV decoder, instead of qdv.dll.

It didn't crash, but it only displayed funny colored blocks.
The log is flooded with millions of those messages:

AC EOB marker is absent pos=85
AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=84
AC EOB marker is absent pos=84
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=72
AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=66
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=65
....

Then I opened your AVI in Avidemux, added the sound form your WAV file and stored everything to a new AVI file.
I did not re-encode, "Direct Stream Copy" was selected for both, Audio and Video.
This AVI plays fine in MPlayer, but only when ffmpeg DV decoder is forced! Qdv.dll still crashes.

Conclusion:
1. MPlayer's default DV decoder (qdv.dll) seems to be broken, while the ffmpeg DV deocder is working.
2. Nevertheless, the ffmpeg DV decoder doesn't like Chipstra's AVI file, the one made by Avidemux works fine.

BTW: You can force ffmpeg's DV decoder by adding this to Additional MPlayer parameters:
-vc ffdv,
Please note that the , is mandatory!

[celtic_druid]

Here it doesn't crash, just funny coloured blocks. When remuxed by vdub it works fine with both libavcodec and qdv decoders.

Ok, so maybe mplayer doesn't like P4's or XP's.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Ok, so maybe mplayer doesn't like P4's or XP's.

:scared:

[wyrd]

I've tested in both celtic_druid's latest and rc1(official) with P4.

in matrox-dv.avi:
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 matrox-dv.avi : crash(signal 11 filter_video)
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vo gl matrox-dv.avi : funny coloured blocks
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vo directx:noaccel matrox-dv.avi : funny coloured blocks
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -ass matrox-dv.avi : funny coloured blocks
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vc ffdv, matrox-dv.avi : funny coloured blocks(AC EOB maker...)

mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 matrox-dv.avi : crash(signal 11 decode_video)
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vo gl matrox-dv.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vo directx:noaccel matrox-dv.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -ass matrox-dv.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vc ffdv, matrox-dv.avi : work fine

in remuxed file(matrox-dv-remux.avi by VDM):
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 matrox-dv-remux.avi : crash(signal 11 filter_video)
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vo gl matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vo directx:noaccel matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -ass matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_r22190-4.3.0_20070210_P4 -vc ffdv, matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine

mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 matrox-dv-remux.avi : crash(signal 11 decode_video)
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vo gl matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vo directx:noaccel matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -ass matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine
mplayer_1.0rc1-3.4.2 -vc ffdv, matrox-dv-remux.avi : work fine

hmm,,weird..:(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I can confirm that the renderer used makes a difference!
Tested with Celtic's latest build and this time I did *not* force ffmpeg DV decoder:

Chipstra's AVI + DirectX renderer: crash!
Chipstra's AVI + OpenGL renderer: funny colored blocks
Remuxed AVI + DirectX renderer: crash!
Remuxed AVI + OpenGL renderer: plays fine

BTW: Why MPlayer uses the external decoder (qdv.dll) by default when they habe working decoder from ffmpeg?

[Razorholt]

Yes, exactly what I get.
I still wonder whether this is a MPlayer bug or something is wrong on the MPUI side...

Does anybody know about a MPlayer fron-end with working GL output?

Are you able to switch to the fullscreen mode?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Are you able to switch to the fullscreen mode?

Yes, but the video doesn't fill the screen...

[Razorholt]

same here... too bad. I will stick to directx then, since I have no other options.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

As said before, you can use the OpenGL renderer in fullscreen mode with this workarround:
-vo gl -vf-add dsize=1280:-2

1280 is the horizontal screen resolution and has to be set accordingly to your screen!

[Razorholt]

I know, but it doesn't work for me. :(

Can you post your entire line of parameters?

Here is mine:

params = " -vo gl -vf-add dsize=1280:-2 -zoom -ao win32 -slave -quiet "
winID = " -wid " + str(h) + " "
self.mpc = "mplayer.exe " + winID + params + name
print self.mpc


EDIT: It goes fullscreen but within the GUI only. It doesn't resize at all.

[Razorholt]

-vo gl2 seems to fix the resize issue but I still can't go fullscreen.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

This way fullscreen works with both, gl and gl2!
Nevertheless gl2 on it's own doesn't work, doesn't resize :(

command line:
"C:\Programme\MPlayer for Windows\mplayer.exe" -slave -identify -wid
1377206 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100 -vf
screenshot -font C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal -ao
dsound:device=0 -sws 9 -vo gl -vf-add dsize=1280:-2
"E:\ViDeOz\Music\Apocalyptica - Repressed.avi"

[Razorholt]

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR! I still get a better result with the resize (within the GUI) with gl2 tho.

I've noticed that the dude behind smplayer posted at the mplayer mailinglist regarding gl/gl2, so hopefully we'll get someone to look into the issue...

[Razorholt]

ARRRRGG! I tried to switch from -vo gl to -vo directx and now I can't get the video to play inside the GUI, only when I go fullscreen - The sound plays fine though.

-vo directx:noaccel works fine in both mode, but the video quality is not impressive at all...

[Razorholt]

nevermind... -nocolorkey fixed it :D

[Razorholt]

Does MPUI/mplayer require mfc71.dll and mfc71.dll to run on windows? I know VLC does...

Thanks,
- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Does MPUI/mplayer require mfc71.dll and mfc71.dll to run on windows? I know VLC does...

Thanks,
- Dan

I just checked with Depency Walker. MPUI uses "MFC42U.DLL", but "mfc71.dll" was not used.
Nevertheless MPUI definitely doesn't use Microsoft Foundation Classes, it's pure Delphi.

BTW: Why asking? Did you encounter any problems with MPUI/MPlayer missing DLLs ???

[Razorholt]

Thanks a lot! I was asking before prior to using mplayer I was using VLC, which needed those 2 DLLs.

Another question for ya :D: I'm currently embedding the version dev-SVN-r19966-3.4.2 of mplayer.exe, because the size of it is quite good: 3.5MB - and it works. Where can I find the latest version compiled with the minimum reqs at around the same size? All I can find are newer versions greater than 10MB.

Cheers.
- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks a lot! I was asking before prior to using mplayer I was using VLC, which needed those 2 DLLs.

Another question for ya :D: I'm currently embedding the version dev-SVN-r19966-3.4.2 of mplayer.exe, because the size of it is quite good: 3.5MB - and it works. Where can I find the latest version compiled with the minimum reqs at around the same size? All I can find are newer versions greater than 10MB.

Cheers.
- Dan

The 3.5 MB version obviously got compressed with some "EXE Packer" tool.
Just get the latest MPlayer build from Celtic's site and use UPX (http://upx.sourceforge.net/) to "shrink" it.

I'd recomment:
upx --force --brute "c:\path to mplayer\mplayer.exe"

[Razorholt]

WOW!!! Great program indeed!!! From 10MB to 3.2MB... Nice compression. I will try and compress my setup file and see what I end up with :)

Thanks man!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

WOW!!! Great program indeed!!! From 10MB to 3.2MB... Nice compression. I will try and compress my setup file and see what I end up with :)

Thanks man!

I need to speak a word of warning:
For compressing a single EXE file, UPX is a great solution.
But if you have several EXE's in an archive or an installer, it's a baaad idea ;)
My installer includes 7 MPlayer builds and the installer made with the UPX'd versions was 3 times bigger than the one made from the original "big" EXE files!
That's because compressing compressed files doesn't work very well...

Furthermore compressing an Installer-EXE with UPX won't work, because SFX files have the data stored as "Overlay" and UPX will either leave the Overlay unprocessed or even strip it of (depends on settings used).

[Razorholt]

ok, I'll leave the installer alone then. :)

[foxyshadis]

You can include upx in your installer and have it run after the install, then delete it. You know that final step in installing acrobat where it's "Optimizing performance"? That's similar to what it's doing, along with building a prefetch cache and other junk.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I already though about that ;)
The problem is that MPlayer.exe is ~11MB in size.
UPX takes a lot of time to compress such a big EXE file, especially in --brute mode.
I think most users would hate the new installer, when it takes 10 times longer to install...

[foxyshadis]

Sure, but you don't have to use such things, the alternative isn't --brute or nothing. ;)

Just a quick test:

level size time
1 5.8M 0.5s
3 5.5M 1.5s
4 5.3M 2.5s
5 4.6M 3.5s
6 4.6M 4.5s
7 4.4M 7.0s
10 4.3M 55.0s

10 being --best. I never use --brute, not worth it.

So if installation filesize is a concern, even -1 halves it almost instantly, and the other lower levels don't take much longer.

[Razorholt]

I tried UPX (both --best and --brute) on mplayer.exe (several versions) and I noticed that the video is out of synch... why is that?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I tried UPX (both --best and --brute) on mplayer.exe (several versions) and I noticed that the video is out of synch... why is that?

That definitely shouldn't happen :(

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sure, but you don't have to use such things, the alternative isn't --brute or nothing. ;)

This seems to be a good setting:
upx.exe -9 --crp-ms=999999 mplayer.exe

Acceptable speed and compressed to 37% of size :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You can include upx in your installer and have it run after the install, then delete it.

Tada :D
MPUI.2007-02-20.Light-Package.exe (http://mulder.brhack.net/public/downloads/testing/MPUI.2007-02-20.Light-Package.exe)
(for testing purpose only!)

Now with 100% more UPX. Please test it and report back...

[Razorholt]

OK. It worked well for me. I have a P4 2.2Ghz / 5120RAM machine with winXP. Now, if I may add a comment on this method... What is the point for using this new method?

1. You still have a pretty large file (a turn off for some users)
2. We now have to wait an additional 30 to 40 seconds for UPX to compress the file... but what for? To gain a few MB? Is it worth it?

So, here is a suggestion:

1. Do not include mplayer.exe in your package
2. Ask the user to choose which package will be suitable for them and download the appropriate mplayer.exe (3,5MB ish compiled with UPX ;)) during the installation - ISTools offers a free script that does just that.

The downloading time is the issue with your build, not the size of your files.

-Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

We now have to wait an additional 30 to 40 seconds for UPX to compress the file... but what for?

Decrease the startup time of MPlayer.
UPX compressed EXE's are smaller, so they are loaded from HDD to RAM faster.
Of course it needs some time for the decompress step, but it's still faster...

And note: You don't have to wait for the UPX step during Setup, it's still optional!

Do not include mplayer.exe in your package

Well, that's the idea of the my package: Have everything you need in one self-contained Package/Installer.
Without MPlayer.exe my package would be incomplete, so I have to keep that file!

Ask the user to choose which package will be suitable for them and download the appropriate mplayer.exe

The reason I don't like "Online-Installers" is that you (a) need to be connected to the internet at install-time and that you (b) depend on the server, which might be unavailable or even go offline forever...

The downloading time is the issue with your build, not the size of your files.

Downloading everything as single files isn't that much smaller:
4.2 MB (MPlayer) + 0.5 MB (MPUI) + 10 MB (Codecs) = 14.7 MB
My Full-Package with 7(!) MPlayer builds, MPUI and Codecs included = 17.5 MB
:)

Just for comparison: VLC Player setup is ~10 MB and WMPlayer 11 is even 24.5 MB
And we all know what WMPlayer can play without additional software: not much!

[foxyshadis]

I d'no, -9 still seems pretty strong, way too far down the diminishing returns aisle. I didn't bother to put it in my test because I figured 3-5 would be the sweet spot; when the package itself installs in two seconds or less, I figured you wouldn't want to dump an extra half-minute on people for dubious benefit.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Updated once again*

:D

[Schrade]

Lord_Mulder,

Is it possible to add a frame display and/or a method to Goto specific frames?

What I'm basically looking for is the control-G (Goto) method of Media Player Classic. It gives you the frame you stopped on and also the ability to input what frame you want to go to.

[Delerue]

I would like to congratulate the MPlayer devs. This player has the best non-MS WMV decode I ever see; very compatible, really fast, and you can jump to any part of any video (Adrenaline Rush, per example), witch other players (WMP, MPC and even VLC) can't. The H.264 decode is almost too fast as CoreAVC. Really amazing!

The only complain I have is about the interface. Too much simple in terms of configuration. I think that console commands isn't the way. Ah! And some WMV9 videos can't redirect the audio channels properly.

Keep going. ;)

P.S.: I'm using a Sempron 3000+, but I want to know if MPlayer has dual-core optimizations.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Lord_Mulder,

Is it possible to add a frame display and/or a method to Goto specific frames?

What I'm basically looking for is the control-G (Goto) method of Media Player Classic. It gives you the frame you stopped on and also the ability to input what frame you want to go to.

AFAIK to hast host-application can only send "jump to %" commands to MPlayer. Jump to a specific frame is not possible during playback. Only the start frame number can be set via commandline, but I'm not sure if that works with all formats...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The only complain I have is about the interface. Too much simple in terms of configuration. I think that console commands isn't the way. Ah! And some WMV9 videos can't redirect the audio channels properly.

Keep going. ;)

P.S.: I'm using a Sempron 3000+, but I want to know if MPlayer has dual-core optimizations.

The problems is that MPlayer has about one million command-line switches and filters available. Having them all implemented in the GUI is impossible. So only the very basic stuff can be set form the GUI directly and all the rest can be set via "Additional commandline parameters". Not really nice, but the only way I can think of. User A wants to have filter 1 implemented in the GUI, user B wants filter 2 and user C wants filter 3. In the end we would need to support all filters and this would bloat the GUI like hell. So I prefer to keep things as simple as possible...

MPlayer uses ffmpeg decoders (libavcodec) for most formats. Those decoders don't have much multi-threading support yet, so all we can do is wait for ffmpeg team to further improve their decoders...

[ricardo.santos]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR

Thanks for MPUI, i have only good things to say about it but (isnt there always a but) dvd,vcd,mp3 etc etc all play fine in MPUI but i play flv videos with it the audio is not in sync with the video, in VLC the same video plays in sync.

Can you tell me how that can be fixed, i have ffdshow setup tp play flv4 and flvsplitter to play flv6.

Thanks

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR

Thanks for MPUI, i have only good things to say about it but (isnt there always a but) dvd,vcd,mp3 etc etc all play fine in MPUI but i play flv videos with it the audio is not in sync with the video, in VLC the same video plays in sync.

Can you tell me how that can be fixed, i have ffdshow setup tp play flv4 and flvsplitter to play flv6.

Thanks

ffdshow & flvsplitter are *not* related to MPlayer/MPUI !!!
Those are DirectShow filters, as used by Windows Media Player & Co. But MPlayer doesn't use DirectShow!

If MPlayer doesn't play FLV4 videos in sync, then this is either a bug in MPlayer or libavcodec.
All we can do is wait for the MPlayer/ffmpeg team to fix the problem.
Of course a bug report to the MPlayer mailing list might be helpfull, if not done yet...

[ExtraEye]

LoRd_MuldeR: any news about the video not re-locating itself in the middle of the screen every time it loads a new video?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR: any news about the video not re-locating itself in the middle of the screen every time it loads a new video?

That's a feature I added to MPUI myself :devil:

Well, if you don't like it, I would have to make a 'special' build for you with that feature removed.
I could also make it optional, but adding a new checkbox results in updating *all* language files :(
Adding a special command-line switch for that also isn't the way to go...

I will think about that, when I have more time. Need to concentrate on written exam ATM.

[ricardo.santos]

ffdshow & flvsplitter are *not* related to MPlayer/MPUI !!!
Those are DirectShow filters, as used by Windows Media Player & Co. But MPlayer doesn't use DirectShow!...

Hi thanks for the info, i knew Mplayer doesn need them, i just mentioned them just in case you needed the info eventough it doesnt need them, a conflict..., just some extra info... im a newbie :)

i´ll look for the link on the mplayer site for reporting bugs

Thanks for the help

[wyrd]

@ricardo.santos
Hi,
Could you try -correct-pts option?
sorry, if i'm wrong.(i'm not well this function):)
thanks

[avih]

That's a feature I added to MPUI myself :devil:

Well, if you don't like it, I would have to make a 'special' build for you with that feature removed.
I could also make it optional, but adding a new checkbox results in updating *all* language files :(
Adding a special command-line switch for that also isn't the way to go...

I will think about that, when I have more time. Need to concentrate on written exam ATM.

Since I'm unable to compile it myself (couldn't find free tools to do that), would you be kind enough to compile a "lean and mean" version without file info, menu, context menu or keyboard shortcuts related to info/opening new items? This way it could be used as a very simple player to bundle on CD etc. If you do that, I'd love to have the modified source too.

thanks.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Since I'm unable to compile it myself (couldn't find free tools to do that), would you be kind enough to compile a "lean and mean" version without file info, menu, context menu or keyboard shortcuts related to info/opening new items? This way it could be used as a very simple player to bundle on CD etc. If you do that, I'd love to have the modified source too.

thanks.

Did you try like this with existing version ???
MPUI.exe -noopen -multiple -autoquit -compact -topmost

In order to compile MPUI all you need is Delphi. I still use Delphi 7 Professional, because I own a license for that version. Newer versions should work too and if you are not going to redistribute your binaries, a free Personal Edition should be fine. You could also try to use Lazarus/FreePascal, which is OpenSource. Nevertheless, in all cases you need to get the Unicode Controls working, which are not party of Delphi's Standard Library...

[Chints]

I observed few problems, any idea?

1)Seeking is not corect (at least real video)
2)Mplyaer stops/closes while playing Some rmvb files (looks like old ones). MPUI is still ok. only mplayer instance is closed.

[Chints]

Myne is a Turion X2, I have not seen any optimize options.

[avih]

Did you try like this with existing version ???
MPUI.exe -noopen -multiple -autoquit -compact -topmost

In order to compile MPUI all you need is Delphi. I still use Delphi 7 Professional, because I own a license for that version. Newer versions should work too and if you are not going to redistribute your binaries, a free Personal Edition should be fine. You could also try to use Lazarus/FreePascal, which is OpenSource. Nevertheless, in all cases you need to get the Unicode Controls working, which are not party of Delphi's Standard Library...

I just did. But compact mode is without the clip controls too, and I want them to stay. Also, when you press ESC, it goes out of compact mode. What I need is a pure playback application. Like the current MPUI, but without the menu items (and their KB shortcuts), without clip information and without the playlist functionality. Bottom toolbar (less the mentioned 2 items) should stay. Pure playback, No info or "around" functionalities. If you could compile such a version and post the modified source and binaries, I'd appreciate it :)

[ricardo.santos]

Mulder

Can you tell us which skin is the one used in the first post?

Thanks

[sillKotscha]

Mulder

Can you tell us which skin is the one used in the first post?

Thanks

my guess...

Vista Transformation Pack (http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showforum=83) :rolleyes:

various customizations are possible... for example my XP transformed "vista"...

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7483/001no7.png (http://imageshack.us)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Mulder

Can you tell us which skin is the one used in the first post?

Thanks
It's one of the "BricoPacks" from CrystalXP.net
The one I use is the "Vista Inspirat" pack. Really good work and 100% free :)

http://crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm

[LoRd_MuldeR]

avih, I don't understand what is so bad about having a menubar and clip information. If a user doesn't want to see clip info, then why should he go there? And what if some users want to see clip info, but it was removed? Maybe you can explain a little bit more...

The problem I see is that what you request would need a lot of modifications to the program. If I remove the menubar, the playlist and the info window, all the code that uses the removed controls won't compile any more. So I guess a lot of code would have to be removed or modified, which is a piece of work and also a danger of introducing new bugs. Maybe it would be more easy to write a new app from the scratch instead of messing arround with MPUI. In fact you won't need much: Just put a Panel control on the Form to show the video and write a short piece code to exec MPlayer with the correct parameters. You won't even need to redirect the stdout. I made some minimalistic player like this for my InstantPlayer tool before I started to use MPUI in InstantPlayer...

// EDIT

Found it on my HDD, maybe it can be useful for you:
http://www.mytempdir.com/1243238

[avih]

thx :) i think i'll try to compile it myself somehow... it's something i need for myself. thx again for the effort :)

[ricardo.santos]

@ricardo.santos
Hi,
Could you try -correct-pts option?
sorry, if i'm wrong.(i'm not well this function):)
thanks

Could you explain how to do it? i dont see any menu to input that sintax?

Thanks

[wyrd]

It's simply:)
add to Tools->Options->Additional MPlayer Parameters:
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mpopt.jpg
I've tested this sample (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/sample/flv/un-sync.flv).
Regards.
//ADD:
latest document
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

[LoRd_MuldeR]

thx :) i think i'll try to compile it myself somehow... it's something i need for myself. thx again for the effort :)

Did you try instplay.exe instead of MPUI.exe ???
http://www.mytempdir.com/1243238

[Delerue]

I'm not sure if I've already told this. If I insert a DVD Video that comes with an AVI file inside the DVD root and select the MPUI to 'play CD/DVD' it can't play the DVD Video, but only the AVI file. Really weird.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I just found thus MPlayer build on the mirror:
mplayer-dev-SVN-r22495-4.1.2.7z (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/Misc%20(not%20by%20celtic_druid)/mplayer_test/mplayer-dev-SVN-r22495-4.1.2.7z)

The great news is, that OpenGL renderer seems to work in GUI embedded MPlayer now :)
I've tried with MPUI and -vo gl2 and it seems to work okay now!
Nevertheless -vo gl still doesn't work, but I guess that's okay as long as gl2 works.

Can others confirm ???

[rvm]

I've just test it right now in my computer with an ATI card, and yes, now it works (even gl works).

It's not perfect, sometimes the video freezes or corrupts when exiting from fullscreen mode.

I also test it with my smplayer and it works too, although that build has some problems: it lacks the file pthreadGC2.dll (I found it in the MPUI folder) and has no support for -ass and even -cache options.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Let's wait for Celtic Druid to update his builds with OpenGL fix included.
I will then update the MPUI packages and add a new option to the installer...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I found those builds to work too:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

And yes, there are still bugs in then OpenGL renderer, but it's a great improvement anyway...

[wyrd]

@LoRd_MuldeR,rvm
ahh.. sorry,these are test builds for me.(static-link fontconfig, aspect ratio in mkv, OpenGL, etc..):D
Why would I upload it there??... so, It's maybe buggy..
I've just test it right now in my computer with an ATI card, and yes, now it works (even gl works).
It's same for me.
it lacks the file pthreadGC2.dll
You are right, I forgot it.
and has no support for -ass and even -cache options.
"-cache problem":
I confirmed it,but I don't know reason yet.It maybe svn problem.. because even Sherpya-SVN-r22472 reproduce.
as for "-ass problem":
It works fine for me in MPUI.
Probably I think it to works in smplayer when you copy fonts folder(font.conf,etc..) to "your screen shot folder(e.g. C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/desktop)".
Let's wait for Celtic Druid to update his builds with OpenGL fix included.
I agree with you.=D

Best Regards.
//EDIT:
"desktop folder" -> "screen shot store folder"

[sillKotscha]

another place to digg for almost up2date mplayer and mencoder builds is sherpya's website...

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

[rvm]

as for "-ass problem":
It works fine for me in MPUI.
Probably I think it to works in smplayer when you copy fonts folder(font.conf,etc..) to "your screen shot folder(e.g. C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/desktop)".

Yes, in that case it works (setting the screenshot directory to the directory where mplayer is installed).

But shouldn't mplayer look for those files in its installation directory (or in some place in My Documents or something) and not in the working directory?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

1. All MPlayer builds have been updated to latest SVN revision (as always)
2. The OpenGL renderer should work with MPUI now (more or less)
3. Added a tweak to enable the OpenGL renderer (-vo gl2) to the installer

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=839965#post839965

[DSP8000]

the Japanese mirror svn is dated mplayer2007.03.10.
this build it's not working for me.
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/

[wyrd]

But shouldn't mplayer look for those files in its installation directory (or in some place in My Documents or something) and not in the working directory?
Yes,I share your opinion.
but I still have not be able to find a way of "static link fontconfig build".:(
related link:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-November/063600.html
Thanks:)
@LoRd_MuldeR
Thanks for your efforts.:D

//EDIT
@DSP8000
Could you up .log?
thanks.

[imiganai]

Thanks for the update! The GL renderer adds easy multimonitor support without having to disable hardware acceleration. Sometimes resizing fails, but a second attempt fixes it quickly :D
I also noticed an odd thing where the window would resize vertically once in a while while playing--either bigger or smaller; it seemed random--but I have not been able to reproduce this behavior, so the only thing I can say is that I was using the gl2 renderer with the window resized to a state that required letterboxing on the top and bottom.

One question though: do you have any plans to fully support multiple monitors with the various window functions? For example, I noticed that the size/move snap-to-edges feature works with any side of the primary monitor and the entire virtual desktop, but not with the borders between monitors (e.g., the left side of the window will never snap to the border between two monitors in a setup like [ A ][ B ]). Full-screen resizing and auto-centering also only work for the primary monitor.

SystemParametersInfo?), the windows API is pretty simple: MonitorFromWindow can grab the monitor to full-screen in, MonitorFromPoint can be used to grab the monitor to aid size- or move-snapping, and then GetMonitorInfo to get the work rect or monitor rect of that monitor...these can essentially replace whatever you're using now...]
Edit: I know MPUI has it on their Low Priority list, but seeing as there have been no updates since October, I figure they won't get to that list anytime soon...
Edit 2: Checked the MPUI source (I don't know delphi). Unless there are changes elsewhere that I am not aware of, modifying the SetFullScreen function to work with multiple monitors looks like a quick fix:
(??) Define MI of type struct MONITORINFO (??)
if Fullscreen then begin
GetMonitorInfo(MonitorFromWindow(Handle,MONITOR_DEFAULTTONEAREST), (pointer to)MI);
FS_PX:=Left; FS_PY:=Top;
FS_SX:=Width; FS_SY:=Height;
FS_WasTopmost:=((GetWindowLong(Handle,GWL_EXSTYLE) AND WS_EX_TOPMOST)<>0);
Pivot:=OuterPanel.ClientToScreen(Point(0,0));
PX:=FS_PX-Pivot.X+MI.rcMonitor.left;
PY:=FS_PY-Pivot.Y+MI.rcMonitor.top;
SX:=MI.rcMonitor.right-MI.rcMonitor.left +FS_SX-OuterPanel.ClientWidth;
SY:=MI.rcMonitor.bottom-MI.rcMonitor.top +FS_SY-OuterPanel.ClientHeight;
...Obviously, the italicized stuff is probably not valid Delphi, but that may be all that's needed for full screen...but you probably already knew this and I'm just being redudant...]

[ricardo.santos]

It's simply:)
add to Tools->Options->Additional MPlayer Parameters:
http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/snap/mpopt.jpg
I've tested this sample (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/tmp/sample/flv/un-sync.flv).
Regards.
//ADD:
latest document
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html

Thanks, the synch problem is still there

Thanks

[Razorholt]

What could prevent mplayer.exe from opening and playing? MPUI is up but mplayer.exe won't open... no firewall and no anti-virus are on ... odd

Thanks,
- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What could prevent mplayer.exe from opening and playing? MPUI is up but mplayer.exe won't open... no firewall and no anti-virus are on ... odd

Thanks,
- Dan

Do I get this correct: MPUI does start, but MPlayer doesn't?
What does MPUI's log say about that ???

[Razorholt]

That's ok, MPUI works now... it was reg issue (ccleaner fixed it :))

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That's ok, MPUI works now... it was reg issue (ccleaner fixed it :))

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR!

AFAIK neither MPUI nor MPlayer read anything from the Registry :confused:

[imiganai]

AFAIK neither MPUI nor MPlayer read anything from the Registry :confused:

But I'll bet DirectX does...

[SealTooGreat]

Is there anybody notice Aspect Ratio difference between MPlayer and MPC. Try it for yourself, load the same movie with both players and try to match their windows-height(width is OK).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Usually it matches 100%. Maybe MPlayer does pre-scale your video while MPC does not? AFAIK MPlayer does pre-scale the video to the correct DAR automatically, while in MPC it depends on the DiretShow filers used.

Check MPlayer's log in order to get more information...

//EDIT

Here is an example from MPlayer log


Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (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] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12

[SealTooGreat]

When mplayer is embedded in GUI (like MPUI or smplayer), there's no AR difference between MPlayer and MPC, but mplayer(as cli, also gmplayer) tend to stretch video vertically a little bit. Run the same video with MPUI and mplayer(cli provided by MPUI package), and you'll see.
So, why does mplayer(cli) give wrong AR by default?!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

So, why does mplayer(cli) give wrong AR by default?!

I don't know. Maybe a question to ask the MPlayer developers.
MPUI reads the resolution from MPlayer's log and will resize the Video panel accordingly, which seems to work fine...

[SealTooGreat]

MPUI reads the resolution from MPlayer's log and will resize the Video panel accordingly, which seems to work fine...
It's weird....mplayer's(cli) log and MPUI's log report the same aspect ratio and resolution (as you said MPUI use mplayer's log), but produce different AR.
Can you confirm my observation?!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sorry, I cannot reproduce the problem.
As you can see, the green area (video overlay) is exactly 640x480 pixels:

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3241/mplayervsizeki8.th.png (http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayervsizeki8.png)

[SealTooGreat]

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8757/differentheightizmenadg4.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=differentheightizmenadg4.jpg) http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7608/samewidthizmenaqo8.th.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=samewidthizmenaqo8.jpg)
The AR difference exist in fullscreen mode, too....'cause of overlay i couldn't printscreen it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Doesn't happen here, any hints on how to reproduce it? :confused:

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/8758/mplayervsize2vk7.th.png (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayervsize2vk7.png)

[SealTooGreat]

Try to leave your CONFIG empty. BTW I've always had that issue regardless of CONFIG is empty or not . Don't know why?!

[Gusar]

@SealTooGreat:
Mplayer by default assumes a 4:3 display. I see you have a resolution of 1280x1024, which is 5:4.
Either of these should work:mplayer -monitorpixelaspect 1 somevideo.mp4mplayer -monitoraspect 5/4 somevideo.mp4


If this fixes it, put one of these in mplayer's config file, so you won't need to type it all the time:monitorpixelaspect=1monitoraspect=5/4

[SealTooGreat]

@Gusar
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS, x 1000^1000. It woooorks with "monitorpixelaspect=1"!!!...Where have you been all these months :)
BTW "monitoraspect=5/4" produce worse AR then it used to be with gmplayer/mplayer(cli), but with single line (monitoraspect=5/4) in CONFIG everything is OK...probably should do some cleaning!

[Unrealbr]

I was wondering if MPUI would run MKV/MP4 h264 in Vista since CCCP pack and Vista Codec pack v.435 ALWAYS crash when i try to play them :(

MPUI gives me the same errors the other packs gave me, the 0x0000124 error anda suposed solution to this would be turn hardware acceleration to NULL but that simply aint avaliable in Vista.
PS:I'm using an Geforce 6800XT 512mb
The error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1046

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 00000000
BCP2: 846D8028
BCP3: B2000000
BCP4: 00000175
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini032307-08.dmp
C:\Users\Unrealbr\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-39936-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Unrealbr\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC5FC.tmp.version.txt

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[imiganai]

MPUI isn't a codec pack. It's a Windows GUI for MPlayer.
I'm not familiar with Vista, but if you want to remove hardware acceleration, then you can try adding -vo directx:noaccel to the additional parameters box in the preferences screen.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sorry, I'm not gonna install Vista, that's for sure.
So there will be no Vista support for MPUI, unless somebody else does...

Nevertheless, what imiganai suggest should work, at least is does on XP...

[Wurstwasser]

Does someone have a clue why I can't play some streams any more?

http://westfunk.media.tmr.net/ramgen/broadcast/radio-duisburg.rm
Playing http://westfunk.media.tmr.net/ramgen/broadcast/radio-duisburg.rm.
Resolving westfunk.media.tmr.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server westfunk.media.tmr.net[212.23.146.253]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Stream not seekable!
(last message repeated 27 times)

Exiting... (End of file)

I'm using the latest mpui download with full codec package.

http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/media/wdr2-wm32.asx
Playing http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/media/wdr2-wm32.asx.
Resolving www.wdr.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.wdr.de[149.219.195.51]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://www.wdr.de/wdrlive/media/wdr2-wm32.asx
Resolving www.wdr.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.wdr.de[149.219.195.51]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 30835 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving www.wdr.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.wdr.de[149.219.195.51]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Resolving www.wdr.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.wdr.de[149.219.195.51]: 80...

Exiting... (End of file)

[Fizick]

I install MPUI and Mplayer. Try it, deinstall it.
But many media file types are still associated with removed MPUI!
It is bad. Deinstaller must revert it to old states.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I install MPUI and Mplayer. Try it, deinstall it.
But many media file types are still associated with removed MPUI!
It is bad. Deinstaller must revert it to old states.

The uninstaller does what it's expected to do: it does un-install!

It won't create any file assocs for other apps, because that's the job of their own installer, not MPUI's.
Creating a backup of all file assocs would make the (un)installer much more complex.
Maybe something I'll investigate when I have more time...

[chipzoller]

I don't know if this is the best thread to ask this question so please move if necessary.
Since I haven't used MPlayer for very long at all, I'd like to ask other experienced users how this compares to VLC in the handling of VobSubs? VLC is a great player to use, but its support for VobSubs isn't exactly perfect, many not being displayed or looking quite poorly (and ffdshow filters aren't tons better).

[ExtraEye]

i wouldn't recommend using mplayer with soft subtitles.

[chipzoller]

Is VSfilter still the only recommended method (for Windows) for properly displaying VobSubs? At least does Mplayer support soft subs in text format (srt) as well as VLC?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

Updated my 'MPlayer for Windows' package to latest revision of MPlayer (2007-03-31)
Also the MakeInstantPlayer tool has been updated.

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[tingdang99]

The part of files are uploaded to http://210.192.122.67/files/media/luanzhan_no_sound1.rmvb, the size is about 5M.

Before this , MPlayer play other rmvb files well. I checked all the pre-version of MPlayer, they all don't work too.

Also I checked this error file with Media Player Claasic and Real Player. They Both play it well.

The difference between this file and other RMVB files, I found this file has multi-channels sound.

Is there wrong with mplayer when player multi-channels rmvb files?

Thanks everybody!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

tingdang99, this thread is about MPUI and my package, not about MPlayer itself.
I guess you better ask this question on the MPlayer mailing list, where the MPlayer developers are.

Nevertheless I checked your sample and can confirm that there is no audio.

The MPlayer log shows the following message:
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6B6F6F63.

So I guess this file uses some Audio Codec that is not supported by MPlayer (yet).
Maybe MPlayer needs some external/proprietary DLL's to deocode that?

[celtic_druid]

Works here if I use a newer RealNetworks Cooker G2 Audio Codec (cook.dll v10.0.0.967). That is other than the fact that the channel order doesn't seem right.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Works here if I use a newer RealNetworks Cooker G2 Audio Codec (cook.dll v10.0.0.967). That is other than the fact that the channel order doesn't seem right.

Can you offer DL link for that DLL please? :)
I only have "cook3260.dll" in my codecs folder from MPlayer latest Binary Codec Pack.

[celtic_druid]

I just copied the one from real's common files directory. The one used by real player I guess. As I said though the channel order didn't sound right. Too much volume from the left, so I guess the front channels were coming from front/surround left or something like that. Who knows if it would even player 2 channel cook audio ok, although libavcodec should take care of that.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I just copied the one from real's common files directory. The one used by real player I guess. As I said though the channel order didn't sound right. Too much volume from the left, so I guess the front channels were coming from front/surround left or something like that. Who knows if it would even player 2 channel cook audio ok, although libavcodec should take care of that.

Yea, it worked.

I just had to replace "old" cook3260.dll with the "cook.dll" form Real's common files folder.
It had to be renamed form "cook.dll" -> "cook3260.dll" though!

About the channels problem: I heard that MPlayer has a problem with multi-channel audio on Win32 anyway and that's why multichannel is usually disabled. Maybe downmix doesn't work in this case?

BTW: Am I supposed to use the "newer" cook.dll in my next package ???

[tingdang99]

Thanks you both talk about this. By the way, next time I'll send the question to the right place.

thanks again.

[buzzqw]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR!

just an info... if you include the mplayer with cpu runtime detection... why include all other build ? the difference in speed should be very limited

(i use the http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php RTM build usually)

thanks

BHH

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR!

just an info... if you include the mplayer with cpu runtime detection... why include all other build ? the difference in speed should be very limited

(i use the http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php RTM build usually)

thanks

BHH

It's to give every user the maximum performance :rolleyes:
If you don't care, you can install with Runtime Detection of course...

[buzzqw]

of course better to choice cpu specific build... but i have said this for take down the SIZE of download

BHH

[LoRd_MuldeR]

of course better to choice cpu specific build... but i have said this for take down the SIZE of download

BHH

Well, having several builds to choose from was the initial idea of my "full" package :confused:

[buzzqw]

the idea of full package is very good, but for me would be mpui+mplayer (only the RTM) + decoder package

in this way the size should be less and performace impact is very very low

BHH

[LoRd_MuldeR]

the idea of full package is very good, but for me would be mpui+mplayer (only the RTM) + decoder package

in this way the size should be less and performace impact is very very low

BHH

The light package is only 11 MB, is that still to much in the times of 6000 kbps DSL and 500 GB HDD's ???

Maybe I will include only RTM build in the 'light' package and keep several builds for the 'full' package?
Would that be helpfull ???

[buzzqw]

ehmm.. i have a 4Mb flat adls line, 1 tb of hard disks.. isn't a problem of bandwidth or space just for optimize (and btw here is a prescot 3ghz).

you are doing a great work (and build a great package! that for sure!!) but imho offer a COMPLETE but smaller package wouldn't be a problem

i haven't made decoding benckmark but the rtm should differ more the ~5% from specific build

just my 0.02€ :)

BHH

[brucevangeorge]

Fantastic package. Even better now that its optimized!!!

I never thought I'd see a package for Athlon XP. Most people are compiling for bleeding edge processors or generic. Thank you very much. I can even play 720p videos much better. i had some minor skipping before. Not anymore!


I have one question. I hope someone here has an answer. How do I get MPUI to crop? Like VLC does?

And what's up with the binary codecs package? I thought MPlayer had everything built right in?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have one question. I hope someone here has an answer. How do I get MPUI to crop? Like VLC does?

Add this command to "Additional MPlayer parameters" in the options:
-vf-add crop=w:h:x:y

<w>,<h> Cropped width and height, defaults to original width and height.
<x>,<y> Position of the cropped picture, defaults to center.

And what's up with the binary codecs package? I thought MPlayer had everything built right in?

MPlayer cannot built-in some decoders, as there is no (working) OpenSource implementation available yet. So it needs to load proprietary DLL's. The binary Codec Package is basically a collection of such DLL's. You need this for some nasty proprietary formats like WMV and Real only! MPlayer will work 100% okay without the Codecs, as decoders for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, MP3, OGG/Vorbis and *many* more are built-in :cool:

[brucevangeorge]

Add this command to "Additional MPlayer parameters" in the options:
-vf-add crop=w:h:x:y

WOW! Now this player has everything! Goodbye VLC.

Thanks alot.


You need this for some nasty proprietary formats like WMV and Real only!

Cool. Does it also play Quicktime? mov & mp4?

When I used such files in VLC some would play and some would not. Don't know why. Maybe different versions of the codec. The only software that played it okay was the Quicktime Alternative, but its ridiculously large install for a few codecs.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Cool. Does it also play Quicktime? mov & mp4?

It should do, yes.

[arman68]

Does this version include the patches for coreavc?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Does this version include the patches for coreavc?

No, MPlayer doesn't use DirectShow filters. It comes with built-in H.264/AVC decoder :cool:

[Sirber]

@Lord

Is there a way to crop with mplayer? Aka to zoom to remove black bars? I can't do it with VLC but I couldn't find it with mplayer. Thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Lord

Is there a way to crop with mplayer? Aka to zoom to remove black bars? I can't do it with VLC but I couldn't find it with mplayer. Thanks!

This was asked and explained just a few posts before your's ;)

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=991218&postcount=499

[Sirber]

oh thanks! :D

[edit]

Can't be changed whiole playing the media? And whitout calculating pixels?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

oh thanks! :D

[edit]

Can't be changed whiole playing the media? And whitout calculating pixels?

Nope. The filters are configured from the command-line, so no way to change parameters during playback.

BTW: Why you didn't crop the black borders at encoding time?

[Sirber]

Nope. The filters are configured from the command-line, so no way to change parameters during playback.

BTW: Why you didn't crop the black borders at encoding time?DVD playback :)

[Gusar]

Is there a way to crop with mplayer? Aka to zoom to remove black bars? I can't do it with VLC but I couldn't find it with mplayer. Thanks!
Add "-panscanrange -0.5" to the commandline and then you can zoom in and out during playback with 'w' and 'e'.

[CruNcher]

@Lord Mulder
do you know anything about crashings @ seek with Blu-Ray H.264 streams (.m2ts) after the dev-SVN-r21977 build ?
seems all builds after this crash with a decode_video error message after seek.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Lord Mulder
do you know anything about crashings @ seek with Blu-Ray H.264 streams (.m2ts) after the dev-SVN-r21977 build ?
seems all builds after this crash with a decode_video error message after seek.

Sorry, I neither have a Blue-Ray Drive nor do I see the need for one ATM.
But crashes in MPlayer should be reported to the MPlayer Mailing List....

[m99]

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/

Is there an new build of mplayer for Pentium-M out there?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/mplayer/

Is there an new build of mplayer for Pentium-M out there?

Celtic Druid said that Pentium-M and Core2Duo builds currently are broken!
I'll have to wait until this problem has been solved, before I update my installer :(

[brucevangeorge]

Add "-panscanrange -0.5" to the commandline and then you can zoom in and out during playback with 'w' and 'e'.

Tried it. Doesn't work.

Copy pasted to make sure its spelled right.

[Nikos]

From man page:

-panscan <0.0-1.0>
Enables pan-and-scan functionality (cropping the sides of e.g. a 16:9 movie to make it fit a 4:3 display without black bands). The range controls how much of the image is cropped. Only works with the xv, xmga, mga, gl, gl2, quartz, macosx and xvidix video output drivers.


-panscanrange <-19.0-99.0> (experimental)
Change the range of the pan-and-scan functionality (default: 1). Positive values mean multiples of the default range. Negative numbers mean you can zoom in up to a factor of -panscanrange+1. E.g. -panscanrange -3 allows a zoom factor of up to 4. This feature is experimental. Do not report bugs unless you are using -vo gl.

[temproh]

Hi!

Is it somehow possible to force MPlayer to output sound in stereo? When I use MPlayer to play AVIs that make use of DTS or AC3 the voices that appear in the movie are almost unhearable. I'm pretty sure this is due to the fact that I'm using a stereo setup. VLC users are able to solve that problem by selecting "Stereo" as audio device. Can MPlayer do that, too?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi!

Is it somehow possible to force MPlayer to output sound in stereo? When I use MPlayer to play AVIs that make use of DTS or AC3 the voices that appear in the movie are almost unhearable. I'm pretty sure this is due to the fact that I'm using a stereo setup. VLC users are able to solve that problem by selecting "Stereo" as audio device. Can MPlayer do that, too?

-af channels=2 should do the job ;)

[temproh]

Unfortunatelly it doesn't. :(

[Romario]

When we to expect new verison of Mplayer for Windows, Lord Mulder? Anytime soon?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

When we to expect new verison of Mplayer for Windows, Lord Mulder? Anytime soon?

Last time Celtic Druid did not make a complete set of new builds, because some CPU specific builds didn't compile at that time. I hope that problem will be fixed on the SVN and we see new builds soon. Until then I will delay update. I don't want to remove certain CPU types from my installer nor do I want to mix current and old builds...

[EpheMeroN]

How can I do this with MPlayer for Windows? If I use -fps 23.976 it works but returns very stuttery playback. There's a PAL > NTSC option on XBMC (mplayer for xbox) and it yields amazing conversion quality...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

Updated all MPlayer builds to 2007-05-23 :cool:

Note: There's no 'Core2 Duo' specific build this time, but speed improvement was negligible anyway.
Core2 Duo users are supposed to use the Prescott builds now!

[celtic_druid]

For Core2, I think the Prescott build is probably best.

Some more info: http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=273

[LoRd_MuldeR]

For Core2, I think the Prescott build is probably best.

Some more info: http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=273

Thanks for your reply, Celtic Druid :)

Can I expect future Core2 Duo builds, or am I supposed to remove it permanently from the installer?
Or maybe rename 'Pentium 4 with Prescott Core' -> 'Pentium 4 Prescott / Core 2 Duo' ???

[celtic_druid]

Also good for Core1's. I might consider future builds, if I can get it to compile. People with Core2's still might prefer to use the gcc4.2 Prescott build though.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Also good for Core1's. I might consider future builds, if I can get it to compile. People with Core2's still might prefer to use the gcc4.2 Prescott build though.

I will then remove 'Core 2' and rename Prescott to 'Prescott / Core / Core 2".
Any doubts ???

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Okay, here we go:
MPUI.2007-05-25.Full-Package.Try-2.exe (http://www.mytempdir.com/1338090)

[chongy5]

Using the latest build, I can't seem to see subtitles?

Before I was using the build on SourceForge (if I remember correctly), which loaded the subtitles instantly.

The subtitles in question are standard .srt files, they work with other players. The 'subtitle track' part in the GUI of MPUI is greyed out.

For some reason this does appear in 'show mplayer output':
SUB: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer
SUB: Read 821 subtitles.
SUB: Adjusted 301 subtitle(s).

[celtic_druid]

I posted some info that may explain it.
http://celticdruid.no-ip.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=273
Subs working fine here (using mplayer without a GUI though).

[chongy5]

I might possibly just go back to the old SourceForge build, I read your post but I wasn't sure of exactly what is the solution - sorry, but an explanation if possible please?

[celtic_druid]

Well if I am right, then it has nothing to do with MPUI; it is mplayer that you would want to change.

Basically comes down to the fact that I moved the mplayer config dir. Either you were using a bmp based font (mplayer\font\font.desc), a default true type font (mplayer\subfont.ttf) or you had loaded one in your config file (font=c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf).

Easiest is probably just to enable fontconfig and ass. Should auto load a true type font for you then (works without ass, but you probably need to scale). Otherwise you could move your font from mplayer.exe\mplayer to %APPDATA%\mplayer and things should work like before.

[chongy5]

Otherwise you could move your font from mplayer.exe\mplayer to %APPDATA%\mplayer and things should work like before.

Tried this, but it didn't work. Just to point out this is the first time that I have installed MPUI, before that it was simply unzipping files.

This is the one which, when I tried recently, works fine with the files:
MPUI-1.2-pre3_with_MPlayer-SVN-r19966.zip

It does have a mplayer.exe\mplayer folder, but that only contains 'config'.

[celtic_druid]

Ok, looks like it isn't my moving the config dir.

The problem is the new -subfont option.

Where ever MPUI is loading a font, you need to copy it and add subfont, so if you had -font c:\windows\fonts\whatever.ttf, then you would add -subfont c:\windows\fonts\whatevr.ttf (they don't need to be the same font, like I guess you could use an LCD font for the OSD). You could also add font=x/subfont=y to your config.

I'd still recommend adding:
ass=true
fontconfig=true
to your config if you want an easy solution.

[chongy5]

When I add the ass=true and fontconfig=true into config in Application Data\mplayer, like so:

# Write your default config options here!

ass=true
fontconfig=true

MPUI says it cannot play the file. I'm assuming it's how I've inputted it is wrong, since it has messages in the output such as:
Playing ass=true.
File not found: 'ass=true'
Failed to open ass=true.

Playing fontconfig=true.
File not found: 'fontconfig=true'
Failed to open fontconfig=true.

Sorry, but help once again please!

[celtic_druid]

No idea how that would happen. MPUI is parsing the config file looking for input? Makes no sense.

Next issue I had was that the subs were fine, the OSD was too big and the OSD text was way too big.
subfont-osd-scale="3.5"
subfont-text-scale="2.5"
which made the subs too small, so
ass-font-scale="1.5"

One final issue is that I am no longer getting OSD symbols for brightness, etc. Just checked though and it is the same with the previous build, so I guess that is unrelated.

[chongy5]

I got it working!
I'm not sure if I overlooked a detail from before, but all I did was copy a font (Arial) into my mplayer application data file, rename it subfont.ttf, and it worked!

Thanks for helping.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The new Update includes the latest installer fixes.

[eris23]

Previous build would install. Latest build (2007-05-28) won't install -- says "MPlayer for Windows is currently running on your computer. All runnig instances need to be closed in order to proceed installation!" The misspelling "runnig" is in the dialog. No copy of MPlayer was running at the time.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Previous build would install. Latest build (2007-05-28) won't install -- says "MPlayer for Windows is currently running on your computer. All runnig instances need to be closed in order to proceed installation!" The misspelling "runnig" is in the dialog. No copy of MPlayer was running at the time.

I cannot reproduce this behavior here :(

Please reboot your PC and try again! What OS are you running?
Can others re-produce this ????

BTW: I didn't change anything on that point, so I doubt something got broke here...


// EDIT

Fixed the misspelling for next release :p

[jimmydu3]

i'm getting the already running on install error also. It stops immediately when trying to kill running instances of mplayer (i've never installed). It says "Could notload:c:...\KillProc.dll".

[LoRd_MuldeR]

i'm getting the already running on install error also. It stops immediately when trying to kill running instances of mplayer (i've never installed). It says "Could notload:c:...\KillProc.dll".

Are you running the "AVG Free Edition" on your system ???
Revgen reported that the problem was caused by this particular anti-virus software...

[jimmydu3]

aha, yes i am. I disabled the resident scanner and it installed. Thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

aha, yes i am. I disabled the resident scanner and it installed. Thanks!

All right. Then it seems this problem is tracked down.
I doubt I can fix it on my site. We already had false positives in the past with NSIS installers :rolleyes:

[0edipus]

in default configuration mpui still doesnt show any subtitles - it is necessary to run mplayer with custom -subfont params
what about changing this in future builds?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'm currently thinking about switching from MPUI to SMPlayer...

[0edipus]

didn't got the time to check smp out.. does it have any particular shortcomings?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

didn't got the time to check smp out.. does it have any particular shortcomings?

Well, compared to MPUI it's much more bloated: As SMPlayer is based on QT4, it requires all the QT Runtime DLLs. That means SMPlayer plus the required DLLs are about 16 MB in size, while MPUI is only ~500 KB in size and doesn't need any Runtime Libs. Nevertheless SMPlayer is much more up-to-date than MPUI and it has much more features implemented, like built-in support for Subtitles and Multiple Audio streams. Also the whole GUI is more "state-of-the-art" than MPUI. And probably the most important point: SMPlayer is under active development while MPUI seems to be stopped...

Still I prefer MPUI as a lightweight player, probably the most lightweight player you can get. But SMPlayer seems to replace MPUI for "normal" purpose...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

I have updated my MPlayer for Windows package. The great news is, that the package now contains the SMPlayer front-end. Of course good old MPUI is still included. Also we still have the "Light" package without SMPlayer included. Please test the new installer and give me some feedback, as it's not tested very much yet...

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=guestbook&app=mplayer&file=full-pack&mirror=brhack

[rvm]

I have updated my MPlayer for Windows package. The great news is, that the package now contains the SMPlayer front-end.

That's a surprise. I'll test the package tonight.

(I don't know if people is going to like it, as now the package will be much bigger, I guess).

As SMPlayer is based on QT4, it requires all the QT Runtime DLLs. That means SMPlayer plus the required DLLs are about 16 MB in size

Maybe it could take less size by compiling it statically. I haven't done yet because that requires to recompile the whole Qt library (which takes several hours), and because then I couldn't release small binaries updates anymore.

[ExtraEye]

that's cool but now I'm confused. isn't mpui a frontend? so if you use smplayer as the front end what's the difference between the using smplayer and mpui?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That's a surprise. I'll test the package tonight.

I hope you agree with my change :o

But I felt it's time for some more advanced GUI than good old MPUI. It seems we won't see further updates to MPUI from the official site and I'm not going to re-invent the wheel...

(I don't know if people is going to like it, as now the package will be much bigger, I guess).

Well, we still have the "Light" package. The "Full" pack is 25 MB now.
Nevertheless I use UPX in my installer to pack the files after extraction in order to keep the install size low...

Maybe it could take less size by compiling it statically. I haven't done yet because that requires to recompile the whole Qt library (which takes several hours), and because then I couldn't release small binaries updates anymore.

Do you think it would be much smaller? Wouldn't it be the same code, just put together in one big EXE instead of external DLLs? Also I wonder if there are features you could disable in QT for SMPlayer? I see stuff like "sql" and "network" which I guess are not used in SMPlayer...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

that's cool but now I'm confused. isn't mpui a frontend? so if you use smplayer as the front end what's the difference between the using smplayer and mpui?

Well, the development of MPUI seems to be stoppen. Last update was ~1 year ago. Furthermore it is lacking many features that are implemented in SMPlayer, such as proper subtitle support. Also SMPlayer comes with a more "up-to-date" user interface. Another problem is the GL renderer, which works poorly with MPUI, but works fine with SMPlayer (excpet the problems with NVidia cards mentioned in the other thread). So IMHO it's time to switch to SMPlayer, which seems to be the more popular one anyway, and keep MPUI as a lightweight alternative...

[ExtraEye]

I understand that much but what I was wondering was about the difference between the version you just made and SMPlayer. does it use a different core or something?
what's the difference between downloading your "Mplayer for windows" and "SMPlayer"?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I understand that much but what I was wondering was about the difference between the version you just made and SMPlayer. does it use a different core or something?
what's the difference between downloading your "Mplayer for windows" and "SMPlayer"?

Only the Installer is different! Also my Installer includes different CPU specific builds of MPlayer (provided by Celtic Druid) while the "official" installer only contains one generic one...

[ExtraEye]

o.k thx now it's clear

[rvm]

Do you think it would be much smaller? Wouldn't it be the same code, just put together in one big EXE instead of external DLLs? Also I wonder if there are features you could disable in QT for SMPlayer? I see stuff like "sql" and "network" which I guess are not used in SMPlayer...

I think it would be smaller. Right now the DLLs have everything, needed or not. A statically compiled binary I think will only have the code needed. Anyway I expect the binary to be big, maybe 9-10 MB. I can't tell until I compile it that way.

I've just tested your new full package. I've found some problems.

The most important: subtitles don't work in SMPlayer. The system font (fontconfig) and ass library don't work (crashes MPlayer).
And choosing a ttf font doesn't work either. I think these new MPlayer releases expect the font to be in the -subfont option.
But SMPlayer doesn't support that option yet. In fact I've just known about it (the MPlayer manual doesn't mention it).

And the other problem, it's a small one: the uninstaller doesn't delete the SMPlayer icons in the desktop.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've just tested your new full package. I've found some problems.

The most important: subtitles don't work in SMPlayer. The system font (fontconfig) and ass library don't work (crashes MPlayer).
And choosing a ttf font doesn't work either. I think these new MPlayer releases expect the font to be in the -subfont option.
But SMPlayer doesn't support that option yet. In fact I've just known about it (the MPlayer manual doesn't mention it).

And the other problem, it's a small one: the uninstaller doesn't delete the SMPlayer icons in the desktop.

Thanks a lot for feedback :)

I also noticed a problem with fonts. One issue is that Celtic's builds of MPlayer try to load the config, the fonts and everything from "C:\Documents and Settings\Foobar\Application Data\mplayer" instead of "MPlayer.exe\mplayer". I try to fix that with the next release by copying the font files to the user's %APPDATA%\mplayer folder. Although this will work only for the user who ran the installer...

Also I will fix the uninstaller.

I think it would be smaller. Right now the DLLs have everything, needed or not. A statically compiled binary I think will only have the code needed. Anyway I expect the binary to be big, maybe 9-10 MB. I can't tell until I compile it that way.

I'd be happy to test such a build. I guess UPX'd it will be ~3 MB then...


[EDIT]

BTW: I noticed that smplayer.exe seems to have problem when I run a file from command-line and the path contains a ' character.

[rvm]

I'd be happy to test such a build. I guess UPX'd it will be ~3 MB then...

And I've just made that build :)

I recompiled Qt statically in another computer (it didn't take that long, just 10 o 15 minutes) and I built a static binary for smplayer 0.5.10. It's 11 MB size (DLLs alone were 14 MB). A package compressed with 7z, including the icon themes, is about 4 MB.

It's compiled with Qt 4.2.2, and not with the new Qt 4.3 (just for saving me to download the 60 MB of the new release).

You can get it from here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer_windows_0.5.10_static_without_mplayer.7z?use_mirror=osdn).

According to the trolltech docs, a static binary has the advantage that it loads faster. On the other hand it won't be able to load plugins (currently smplayer doesn't use any plugins, but maybe in the future that could change).

BTW: I noticed that smplayer.exe seems to have problem when I run a file from command-line and the path contains a ' character.

I'll check it tomorrow. Right now I've tested it on linux and it seems there's no problem with that character.

[smok3]

LoRd_MuldeR, tnx for the new distro and shame about mpui :\

[LoRd_MuldeR]

And I've just made that build :)

I recompiled Qt statically in another computer (it didn't take that long, just 10 o 15 minutes) and I built a static binary for smplayer 0.5.10. It's 11 MB size (DLLs alone were 14 MB). A package compressed with 7z, including the icon themes, is about 4 MB.

It's compiled with Qt 4.2.2, and not with the new Qt 4.3 (just for saving me to download the 60 MB of the new release).

You can get it from here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer_windows_0.5.10_static_without_mplayer.7z?use_mirror=osdn).

Great :D

After it was UPX'd, the new SMPlayer.exe is only 3,1 MB.
Also it seems startup time is really improved by static linking.

I will update the installer ASAP.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Done :)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.14, which no longer depends on mingwm10.dll. For a complete list of all changes have a look here (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=165). Furthermore I found a bug in the installer, which sometimes caused the installer to not set the path to 'mplayer.exe' properly in '%APPDATA%\RVM\smplayer.ini'. This is (hopefully) fixed now! Last but not least there is a new "Reset SMPlayer configuration" tool now.

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

All MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN Revision (2007-06-18).
The new builds seem to fix the "seeking" bug with large files :)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[kurt]

[COLOR="DarkRed"][B]
The new builds seem to fix the "seeking" bug with large files :)

jup, works here too again... (file > 2,6 gb)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

This update contains SMPlayer v0.5.20, which fixes a few things: For example it can now open files with a ' character in the name via command-line. Furthermore the priority setting will now change the priority of SMPlayer and MPlayer, instead of MPlayer only. This should prevent GUI freeze when MPlayer eats a lot of CPU cycles. Last but not least the screenshot output directory will now be set by the installer, so the "Screenshot" button won't be grayed out after install...

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Note: Somebody reported that the trojan "Trojan.Killproc" was found in my installer. That is a FALSE positive! Killproc is a plugin for NSIS. It's not a trojan, nor any other form of malware. It just checks for a certain process and (optionally) terminates that process. In my installer it's used to make sure MPlayer is not running while you try to install.

If you encouter such FALSE positives, please report them to the author of your AV software, so they can fix the problem!

All information about the KillProc plugin can be found here:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/KillProc_plug-in

Also note the "100% Clean" award on Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package.shtml

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

All MPlayer builds updated to SVN 2007-06-27 :)
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[MetalheadGautham]

hey LoRd_Mulder, I am not able to find a proper link for the file. can you upload this insialler in zshare?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

hey LoRd_Mulder, I am not able to find a proper link for the file. can you upload this insialler in zshare?

What is wrong about the mirrors we have?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have updated my MakeInstantPlayer tool to the latest versions of MPlayer and NSIS:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#instplay

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2007-07-29:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

MPlayer builds updated to 2007-07-20 :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2007-08-01
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

Updated SMPlayer to version 0.5.29-qt4 (changelog (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1029383&postcount=302)) and adjusted installer :)

[leiming2006]

it seems quite wonderful.
thanks very much!

[fight2win]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9384/untitledxk6.png

i'm on winxp sp2 with no virus or disc errors, i dloaded mpui package from mulder's homepage and freewarefiles and softpedia, but on double click on package, i get above message...can some1 help...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have tested this installer on WinXP x86 as well as on WinXP x64, both with latest Service Packs. Also I have downloaded the installer 3 minutes ago and everything works fine. So I can only guess that your download failed somehow. Please check the MD5 hash of your downloaded file! It should be d2675f79b6c4aa0ec1ccec49b1a3574d. You can use this (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html) tool to check the file. In case the MD5 is wrong, please try downloading again...

[tingdang99]

When I play some rmvb files with the latest or former version on Windowns vista , mplayer crash every time. But I can play the same file fine with the same version mplayer (packaged by you! ) on windows XP or 2000 system.

Why?

[chrisdab]

Do I need to uninstall any codec packages already installed on my computer if I want to install this full version with its MPUI codecs?

I cant wait to install this, I always loved MPUI but it was hard to configure the old ones.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Do I need to uninstall any codec packages already installed on my computer if I want to install this full version with its MPUI codecs?

No you don't need to uninstall anything! The MPlayer.exe uses it's own built-in Decoders and Splitters. MPlayer does not depend on any "external" Filters, Plugins or whatever. And most important: MPlayer does not use DirectShow, so you don't need to care about any DirectShow Filters or Codec Packs that are already installed. MPlayer will just run happily on it's own ^^

The so called "Codecs Package", which is included in my installer, will just copy a number of third-party DLL's into MPlayers "codecs" subfolder. MPlayer requires those DLL's for some proprietary formats (WMV, Real and so on). Nevertheless MPlayer will still work 100% fine without them. Furthermore those DLL's will not interferer with other programs installed on your computer. They are not DirectShow filters nor anything else, which could have system-wide effect...

[Lupo73]

Very good project...I'd like to collaborate with you to develop a portable version of this powerful player...I sent you also a PM to ask you it...if you are interested in this idea, you can see something more about my project at this link:
http://lupo73.altervista.org/index-en.htm

good bye and good work ^^

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows - Full Package (2007-08-19) :)
http://mplayer.de.gg/

[smok3]

tnx, would this count as shortened changelog?:

-- T:\utility\mpui : T:\utility\mpui_new
.\mplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\resetsmplayer.exe only in T:\utility\mpui_new
.\setfileassoc.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\smplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

tnx, would this count as shortened changelog?:

-- T:\utility\mpui : T:\utility\mpui_new
.\mplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\resetsmplayer.exe only in T:\utility\mpui_new
.\setfileassoc.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\smplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent) :confused:

[petran79]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9384/untitledxk6.png

i'm on winxp sp2 with no virus or disc errors, i dloaded mpui package from mulder's homepage and freewarefiles and softpedia, but on double click on package, i get above message...can some1 help...


use a download manager like Getright. I had the same issue with Firefox.

[Schrade]

No problems here with Firefox.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

use a download manager like Getright. I had the same issue with Firefox.

Browsers I have tested to work okay:
* Firefox
* SeaMonkey
* Opera
* Safari for Windows (Beta)
* Konqueror
* IE7 (yes, even that one ^^)

Please try again without download manager, should work then...

[ululu]

Beforehand I apologize for my bad English. At me the small request to developers. You in SMPlayer could not make an opportunity to specify adjustment for audio/video by default. I have in view of to make so that when I open film or music - that at me they opens with my adjustments and I had not to go in the menu and to expose for each film or songs the adjustments. For example I want, that at me opens files with the included normalization of the loudness, the included videoeffects, for example postprocessing and the others. It is necessary for me, that I did not specify these adjustments and did not include effects for each file, and would start already with the tinctures. To me it will be easier so, will come to switch adjustments not for each file, but only for certain (determined). And much I think such it will be useful.

[rvm]

There are options in the preferences dialog to activate volume normalization and postprocessing for all videos.

For other options, ok, you can't easily (maybe in the future), but you can always add options for mplayer in preferences->advanced.

[toology]

I've been a longtime user of your MPUI + MPlayer package, but recently I moved to a new computer and I have a problem.

I watch my avi files on a plasma tv connected via S-video cable to a GeForce 8800 GTS. I used to use the full screen video mirror option, but there is none on the drivers for my new graphic card. The video plays fine on my monitor but when I drag it to the tv (I set up dual view on Windows Xp), The MPUI windows looks empty (ie. black).

I've noticed that only players using overlay (MPC, Zoom Player) show video on the tv. Is there any way to set MPUI to overlay, or do you perhaps have a better solution?

A big thank you for an excellent package and I hope that you have some ideas about a possible solution! :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've been a longtime user of your MPUI + MPlayer package, but recently I moved to a new computer and I have a problem.

I watch my avi files on a plasma tv connected via S-video cable to a GeForce 8800 GTS. I used to use the full screen video mirror option, but there is none on the drivers for my new graphic card. The video plays fine on my monitor but when I drag it to the tv (I set up dual view on Windows Xp), The MPUI windows looks empty (ie. black).

I've noticed that only players using overlay (MPC, Zoom Player) show video on the tv. Is there any way to set MPUI to overlay, or do you perhaps have a better solution?

A big thank you for an excellent package and I hope that you have some ideas about a possible solution! :)

Run MPUI, go to "Tools" -> "Options" and add to "Additional MPlayer parameters" the follwing:
-adapter x

Replace the x with the display number (0, 1, 2, ...) where you want the overlay to appear :)

You can also try to use OpenGL instead of Overlay by adding:
-vo gl

[toology]

Wow! Thanks for such a quick response! I'll try it out tomorrow and let you know how it worked.

[toology]

The adapter command unfortunately doesn't give results and when I tried to use gl I got this>

AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mp3
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 560 x 228 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.46:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4561
[swscaler @ 00D0A850]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
VO: [gl] 560x228 => 560x228 BGRA
[gl] Could not create GL context!


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[messinian]

Hello LoRd_MuldeR.

I install the last version of your program (19/08/2007). I check the "AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF" and in Preferences->General I choose video:directx and audio:win32. With this combination the
AC3 or DTS audiostream played fine.

Next step playing DVD form drive, the subtitle displayed ok.

When playing a ripped DVD from a folder (ex. Video_TS) there seems to be a subtitle problem because any combination I use I can't display the subtitle.

The same problem it happens also with the last smplayer (rvm version).

Can you help please?

I am running on Windows XP SP2.

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

SMPlayer updated to v0.5.43 :)

[messinian]

LoRd_MuldeR or rvm or anyone

any solution to my problem with subtitle?

Thanks

[rvm]

Could you paste the mplayer log?

[messinian]

ok, thiw is mplayer log:

G:/Program Files/MPlayer for Windows/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -afm hwac3 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx -ao win32 -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -wid 459360 -colorkey 131586 -monitoraspect 1.6 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-7 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device N:/DVDs/GLADIATOR -chapter 1 -dvdangle 1 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add expand=osd=1 -noslices -vf-add screenshot dvd://1

MPlayer dev-SVN-r24100-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Setting process priority: abovenormal
113 audio & 235 video codecs

Playing dvd://1.
ID_DVD_TITLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=29
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=8915.360
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=F68326160A218068D69883E2ECF4A6E1
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 29 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: dts (5.1) language: en aid: 137.
ID_AUDIO_ID=137
ID_AID_137_LANG=en
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
subtitle ( sid ): 14 language: el
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=14
ID_SID_14_LANG=el
number of subtitles on disk: 1
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:06:56,00:12:18,00:16:46,00:21:25,00:30:31,00:34:35,00:37:43,00:44:09,00:48:02,00:51:05,00:56:07,01:03:24,01:11:59,01:18:03,01:25:34,01:30:12,01:35:29,01:39:55,01:43:52,01:47:41,01:53:19,01:58:02,02:04:01,02:08:05,02:12:55,02:17:07,02:21:11,02:28:34,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=137
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=dvd://1
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=9800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=8915.36
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
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
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3...
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to DTS, 768000 bps, 48000 Hz
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=768000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
AO: [win32] 48000Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=hwdts
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 [zoom]
ID_AUDIO_TRACK=137
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=14

Exiting... (Quit)
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 1024x576

I'm waiting for your help.
Thanks

[rvm]

I don't see any error message or complain from mplayer.
If you play the dvd with another player, do the subtitles show?

[Wurstwasser]

LordMullder is now smplayer your preferred Gui? It's pretty slow on slower hardware (like cpu's below 1 GhZ)... Can you please make the installer give an option of which GUI to choose? And a file association program also for mpui? Thx,,,!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Can you please make the installer give an option of which GUI to choose? And a file association program also for mpui? Thx,,,!

Installation of SMPlayer is optional in my installer! If you uncheck SMPlayer, then only MPUI will be installed and all file association will point to MPUI...

[EpheMeroN]

LoRd_MuldeR: Can you please add an option in your next release to be able to choose whether MPUI or SMPlayer is the default player? MPUI (although far inferior optionswise) is still a lot better on system resources on my old PIII Dell.

OMG the previous post was about what I asked for. However, even though that would work, I still use SMPlayer on here too for say a dvd or video file with many subtitle or audio streams.

[rvm]

LordMullder is now smplayer your preferred Gui? It's pretty slow on slower hardware (like cpu's below 1 GhZ)...

Mmm, I decrease the CPU speed to 800 MHz and I don't see that smplayer is slow. Of course HD videos can't be played smoothly, but normal videos play ok.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR: Can you please add an option in your next release to be able to choose whether MPUI or SMPlayer is the default player?

MPUI will automatically become the "default" front-end, if you don't install SMPlayer. If you install both, MPUI and SMPlayer, then SMPlayer will be the "default" player. But you can remove/rename the "SMPlayer.exe" at any time and re-run "SetFileAssoc.exe". Then all file associations will be changed to MPUI insted of SMPlayer. Of course you have to make sure that "MPUI.exe" is still there...

[vbjeff]

When I try to play a AVI2 (OpenDML) MJPEG video with SMPlayer, it reports that the video is 0 sec long and the slider does not work, but the video still plays. Is there a problem with getting the duration of a video that is an OpenDML MJPEG video?

Here is a link to a sample video (10 sec, 18MB):
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd800-review/MVI_0059.AVI

[LoRd_MuldeR]

When I try to play a AVI2 (OpenDML) MJPEG video with SMPlayer, it reports that the video is 0 sec long and the slider does not work, but the video still plays. Is there a problem with getting the duration of a video that is an OpenDML MJPEG video?

Here is a link to a sample video (10 sec, 18MB):
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd800-review/MVI_0059.AVI

I guess this is more a MPlayer problem than a SMPlayer problem: If MPlayer cannot detect the length of the video, it might report "length = 0" to SMPlayer or even not report anything at all. Then SMPlayer's slider cannot work for obvious reasons. This problem can also happen with corrupted AVI files, which are lacking a proper index block! Try to add -idx to "Additional Options for MPlayer" (you find it at Preferences -> Advanced). This will force MPlayer to rebuild the missing index block, if necessary. But opening your AVI file might take a few moments then...


[EDIT]

With your original file MPlayer reports a length of 0.03 seconds, which explains why SMPlayer's slider isn't working. Unfortunately in this case -idx doesn't help at all. But after re-muxing your AVI file with Avidemux, I got it working properly and MPlayer reports a length of 10.0 seconds now. So I guess there was "something" wrong with your AVI...

[vbjeff]

I guess this is more a MPlayer problem than a SMPlayer problem: If MPlayer cannot detect the length of the video, it might report "length = 0" to SMPlayer or even not report anything at all. Then SMPlayer's slider cannot work for obvious reasons. This problem can also happen with corrupted AVI files, which are lacking a proper index block! Try to add -idx to "Additional Options for MPlayer" (you find it at Preferences -> Advanced). This will force MPlayer to rebuild the missing index block, if necessary. But opening your AVI file might take a few moments then...


[EDIT]

With your original file MPlayer reports a length of 0.03 seconds, which explains why SMPlayer's slider isn't working. Unfortunately in this case -idx doesn't help at all. But after re-muxing your AVI file with Avidemux, I got it working properly and MPlayer reports a length of 10.0 seconds now. So I guess there was "something" wrong with your AVI...


Thanks for your fast response, using Avidemux did fix the problem. When I looked at the header info (using abcAVI Tag Editor) from the original AVI and the modified AVI, I noticed that Avidemux appeared to remove any references to any AVI2 (OpenDML) entries. Since Avidemux did work properly with the original AVI I guess there may be a bug or limitation in MPlayer?

Unfortunately, the MPlayer web site does not appear to have a forum where I can post questions, and it looks like I need another degree to figure out how to submit a bug using their bug tracking system, so I guess this won't get fixed any time soon.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You can enabled "Create OpenDML files" in Avidemux's Preferences (look at the "Output" tab).
The resulting file still plays fine in MPlayer here...

[rvm]

Unfortunately, the MPlayer web site does not appear to have a forum where I can post questions

There's no forum, but there's a mailing list:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/mailing_lists.html

[vbjeff]

You can enabled "Create OpenDML files" in Avidemux's Preferences (look at the "Output" tab).
The resulting file still plays fine in MPlayer here...
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried using the option you stated, but according to abcAVI Tag Editor, the new header still does not contain OpenDML specific header entries, just some additional bytes in a "Junk" field.

I'm still not sure if the problem is with the original AVI file (which is what comes out of all current Canon digital cameras) or with MPlayer. Since other software like GSpot, Avidemux, and even Windows Media Player recognize the proper video length, it seems like a problem with MPlayer??


There's no forum, but there's a mailing list:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/mailing_lists.html
Thanks for the info, this should help to get some answers.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'm still not sure if the problem is with the original AVI file (which is what comes out of all current Canon digital cameras) or with MPlayer.

I think it's extremely unlikely that MPlayer has any AVI specific bugs, since AVI is an old and well-known format and it's MPlayer's/MEncoder's "primary" format. Also MPlayer is known for it's good error resilience. If there are any problems with AVI, it might be something that was broken recently (and might be fixed already). Maybe you try other (older) MPlayer builds and compare what happens....

http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

I just updated my package to SMPlayer v0.5.53 :)

[acantoni]

First of all let me say THANK YOU for your work Lord_Mulder ! awesome package!

I have a problem though, in previous version in smplayer i could , after quiitting a video, automatically restart it at the timeframe i left .

So if for instance in a clip i've seen the first 20 minutes, next time i open the same file i'd start at 20 minutes.

This feature was incredibly useful for me.

In the latest release, both of your pack and of vanilla smplayer this function isn't working and it seems i'm unable to turn it on.

Any advice on how to bring this feature on is really appreciated!

Thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

First of all let me say THANK YOU for your work Lord_Mulder ! awesome package!

I have a problem though, in previous version in smplayer i could , after quiitting a video, automatically restart it at the timeframe i left .

So if for instance in a clip i've seen the first 20 minutes, next time i open the same file i'd start at 20 minutes.

This feature was incredibly useful for me.

In the latest release, both of your pack and of vanilla smplayer this function isn't working and it seems i'm unable to turn it on.

Any advice on how to bring this feature on is really appreciated!

Thanks!

Options -> Preferences -> General -> Media Settings
Enable "Remember settings for all files" and disable "Don't remember time position" :)

[acantoni]

Thanks Mulder!
I did know about that option but.. didn't work!!

Aftermessing around i found the problem!

In the 2nd option from the left in the main menu (open , *play* , video , audio, subtitles, browse, options , help )
Play -> u've got a bunch of option, latest one is REPEAT , well if this option is on it seems that file start always from the start and that was why the resume wasn't working for me!

(my smplayer isn't in english so i may call some menu with the wrong name)

[Razorholt]

mplayer question: How can we find out that mplayer finishes a video whitout calling stdin/stdout?

Thanks,
- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

mplayer question: How can we find out that mplayer finishes a video whitout calling stdin/stdout?

Thanks,
- Dan

You either parse each line from stdout and wait for "Exiting... (End of file)" or you wait for the MPlayer process to terminate...

The latter can be done under Windows via the following Win32 API calls (untested ^^):
CreateProcess(nil, PChar(Commandline), nil, nil, false, 0, nil, nil, si, pi); // Create process
WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE); // Wait for process to terminate

[Razorholt]

Thanks LoRd_MuldeR for your reply. What I'm trying to achieve here is to feed mplayer with a list of files coming from a server (playlist). I would like mplayer to play the files one after another without having it to close and re-open in between videos.

The solution has to be applicable for Linux, Mac and Windows, this is why I don't really fancy using win32 API.

I may look into -playlistbut I don't think it would be relevant since the actual playlist sits on a server. I also tried -idle but that didn't work.

Thanks,
- Dan

[wqcr]

Hello everybody,
I have problems with playing HD videos. Mplayer says "ERROR>can't use overlay mode: please use -vo directx:noaccel". I try verbose parameter. My video card supports 7 of 15 overlay modes. If I use video output directx:noaccel, it stresses my CPU to 80% if I use 2000 MHz instead of 800 MHz. Please don't write something like "Change your graphics card". I CANNOT change graphic card, because I using IGP SIS M760GX on my notebook. I also try gl and gl2 output but it not work. So, how can I play HD video on my notebook on windows? (I try X11 output in linux and it works fine, but I'm lazy starting to Slax through one HD file).

:thanks:

PS: Sorry for my EN language

[foxyshadis]

Are there any newer drivers for the chipset out? Usually that's the only way to fix those issues. Since mplayer has no vmr output, I don't think it'll work otherwise. =\

[rvm]

I may look into -playlistbut I don't think it would be relevant since the actual playlist sits on a server.

I think you can pass a URL to -playlist, and the playlist can have URLs pointing to any place. I didn't test it but I think it's that way.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The solution has to be applicable for Linux, Mac and Windows, this is why I don't really fancy using win32 API.

Well, under Linux and Mac there should be similar ways to create a process and wait for it to terminate. But under Win32 you do it like the code I posted above. Unless there is a cross-platform library that hides the OS-specific API calls, you will have to implement one function per OS...

[vlada]

I have porblems with MPlayer an DV AVI video. The video won't play with both MPUI and SMPlayer as a frontend. Here is the log:
command line:
"c:\Program Files\Multimedia\Video\MPlayer\mplayer.exe" -slave
-identify -wid 3541922 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop
-autosync 100 -vf screenshot -font C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority
abovenormal -ao dsound:device=0 -sws 9 -af volnorm=2
D:\Instalace\_Novy\video2.avi

MPlayer dev-SVN-r24387-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 79, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: abovenormal
113 audio & 235 video codecs
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing D:\Instalace\_Novy\video2.avi.
AVI file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 24bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=D:\Instalace\_Novy\video2.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=dvsd
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=28800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=1
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=8.88
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 4.
VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 720x576 Packed YUY2
VideoDecoder::SetExtAttr: registry failure
Selected video codec: [qdv] vfm: dshow (Sony Digital Video (DV))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=qdv
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=1536000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=pcm
Starting playback...
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: Lanczos scaler, from yuyv422 to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00CCD9A0]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 720x576


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.


Anyone has any idea what might be wrong? I have a 30MB sample if anyone is interested. The sample plays in VLC and WMP/MPC with both MS decoder and ffdshow.

Also I have a problem with SMPlayer. I updated to latest version and now after starting the player it starts eating whole CPU and nothing happens. What might be wrong? I heard something about SSA library taking longer to load, but 1 minute on Athlon64 3500+ is too long IMHO. Or am I just inpatient?

[rvm]

Also I have a problem with SMPlayer. I updated to latest version and now after starting the player it starts eating whole CPU and nothing happens. What might be wrong? I heard something about SSA library taking longer to load, but 1 minute on Athlon64 3500+ is too long IMHO. Or am I just inpatient?

In my computer (Turion 64, 2 GHz) it takes 30 seconds to create the font cache.

I don't know, try to delete the cache (C:\Documents and Settings\user\.fonts.cache-1), maybe it got corrupted.

[[)370|\|470!2]

Is it that hard to announce it doesn't work correctly with vista aero? If i knew, i wouldn't even bother downloading. "Vista compatibility" sounds inadequate.

[rvm]

Doesn't it work well is you use gl/gl2?

[[)370|\|470!2]

Omfg. It also messes up registry settings for all associated mediafiles after uninstall; what a piece of junk

[LoRd_MuldeR]

AFAIK MPlayer doesn't use the Windows registry at all ;)
Only my installer changes the file associations and only if you explicitly enable that option.

And if MPlayer doesn't run properly on Vista while it does on XP, it's M$'s job to fix those Vista compatibility issues....

[Razorholt]

Omfg. It also messes up registry settings for all associated mediafiles after uninstall; what a piece of junk

Referring Mplayer as "a piece of junk" while running Vista makes your remark quite irrelevant - Very funny actually.

[[)370|\|470!2]

Referring Mplayer as "a piece of junk" while running Vista makes your remark quite irrelevant - Very funny actually.

C'mon. Teh only funny person here is you, hence you're using windows, no matter which version. According to your "logic", you should use *nix or dos. Or windows 3.10 at least. Lmao. And still, if you wanna bash vista, get yourself a decent puter 1st.

[[)370|\|470!2]

AFAIK MPlayer doesn't use the Windows registry at all ;)
Only my installer changes the file associations and only.

It was concerning your installer exactly. Sorry i didn't make myself clear.

if you explicitly enable that option.

It is enabled by default. Think again.

And if MPlayer doesn't run properly on Vista while it does on XP, it's M$'s job to fix those Vista compatibility issues....

For some odd reason MPC doesn't have this "compatibility issue". Weird, don't you think?..

[LoRd_MuldeR]

It is enabled by default. Think again.
So? If you don't want to associate media files with MPlayer, then you can uncheck that option.
If you keep it enabled, then it does exactly what it's expected to do.

Think -> Everything works OK so far...

For some odd reason MPC doesn't have this "compatibility issue". Weird, don't you think?..

It's not so weird if you know that MPC is based on DirectShow, as Windows Media Player is. DirectShow is a part of DirectX, which is one of M$'s preferred technologies. They even released the new DirectX 10 exclusively for Vista. One of the (useless) attempts to force people to buy vista ^^

MPlayer is cross-platform software, so it does not use a proprietary and platform-specific technology, which DirectX is, for obvious reasons! MPlayer has it's own decoders/splitter built-in. When running under Windows, MPlayer uses the Overlay Renderer for video output by default. If Vista (or Aero) breaks the Overlay renderer, then that is a bug and nothing else. They should fix their bugs, not expect developers to workaround them!

Surprisingly enough, a lot of my friends use Vista now, and they all assured me that they can use MPlayer without the slightest problem. Maybe you should check your system again...

[Razorholt]

C'mon. Teh only funny person here is you, hence you're using windows, no matter which version. According to your "logic", you should use *nix or dos. Or windows 3.10 at least. Lmao. And still, if you wanna bash vista, get yourself a decent puter 1st.

You're assuming that I use Windows like you assume that Mplayer is crap or doesn't work on Vista. Do us a favor and stop assuming and blaming others when the real issue comes from your end. Like LoRd_MuldeR suggested, check your system again... Or ask someone.

And since you asked, I use Mplayer on Linux, Mac (not 100% stable but...) and Windows. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty stable compared to other players such as VLC.


Take care,

- Dan

[[)370|\|470!2]

So? If you don't want to associate media files with MPlayer, then you can uncheck that option.
If you keep it enabled, then it does exactly what it's expected to to.

Think -> Everything works OK so far......

You simply didn't get it, do you. There wasn't a problem your installer associated files with mplayer, although it deleted all other associations for another softwares for these files, which alone is bit lame already. The real problem arised when i uninstalled it and the mess it left behind, e. g., .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .ts and so on are no longer recognized by os. Not that such a huge problem, right. Dunno to code an uninstaller properly, huh? :devil:



It's not so weird if you know that MPC is based on DirectShow, as Windows Media Player is. DirectShow is a part of DirectX, which is one of M$'s preferred technologies. They even released the new DirectX 10 exclusively for Vista. One of the (useless) attempts to force people to buy vista ^^

Yeah, M$ sucks, Vista sucks, thanks mate, i didn't know, you've just opened my eyes... :cool:


MPlayer is cross-platform software, so it does not use a proprietary and platform-specific technology, which DirectX is, for obvious reasons! MPlayer has it's own decoders/splitter built-in. When running under Windows, MPlayer uses the Overlay Renderer for video output by default. If Vista (or Aero) breaks the Overlay renderer, then that is a bug and nothing else. They should fix their bugs, not expect developers to workaround them!

If it can't use DS renderer properly, then you(or whoever positioning it for Vista) should say so. Is there a problem with that? Moreover, there's no way chosing other renderer but overlay, right? Although i saw some option there with word "renderer", there were no VMR7 or VMR9 options there. And... Lol, Vista (or Aero) doesn't break the Overlay renderer — it's simply too advanced to use such an obsolete algorithm. Yeah, another reason to hate M$ — they trying to move forward, not backward. :D

Surprisingly enough, a lot of my friends use Vista now, and they all assured me that they can use MPlayer without the slightest problem. Maybe you should check your system again...

It depends on what your definition of "problem" is. If it makes desktop switch to basic theme becoz of some s/w while there's dozens of similar softwares that doesn't, i'd say it is a problem.

[Gusar]

There is actually no bug to fix in Vista or in MPlayer. Aero is a compositor and overlay is by design incompatible with compositing. That's why Aero is switched off while an overlay window is present. One solution would be for MPlayer to implement VMR or EVR outputs, which are compatible with a compositor. The other is to use -vo gl:yuv=# / -vo gl2:yuv=# (the yuv number depends on your graphic card, see mplayer manpage).

And MPlayer does use DirectX on Windows. The outputs are after all named -vo directx and -ao dsound for a reason.


[)370|\|470!2, while you have a valid concern, your tone is very rude and disrespectful towards doom9 members and especially MPlayer developers.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You simply didn't get it, do you. There wasn't a problem your installer associated files with mplayer, although it deleted all other associations for another softwares for these files, which alone is bit lame already. The real problem arised when i uninstalled it and the mess it left behind, e. g., .avi, .mp4, .mkv, .ts and so on are no longer recognized by os. Not that such a huge problem, right. Dunno to code an uninstaller properly, huh? :devil:

The idea of an uninstaller is to uninstall, nothing else :rolleyes:

My uninstaller will remove the files that were copied to your HDD during install. In fact MPlayer doesn't need an uninstaller at all, because it doesn't install any files, except the files that are copied to the install directory. So moving the install folder to recycle bin is enough. Nevertheless I added an uninstaller, because various people asked for it. But it's not the job of my (un)installer to re-associate your media files with other applications. I agree, it would be a nice feature to back up the file associations before install and restore them at uninstall. But it's work to implement that and my time is limited. So instead of posting so much flame, you could contribute to the project by writing a patch to backup file associations ...

Yeah, M$ sucks, Vista sucks, thanks mate, i didn't know, you've just opened my eyes... :cool:

That's not what I said nor what I think. But it's a known fact that it's a long way to go for Vista to become as stable as WinXP is now...

If it can't use DS renderer properly, then you(or whoever positioning it for Vista) should say so.

You still don't get it. MPlayer doesn't use DirectShow, nor is MPlayer expected to use DirectShow, nor is there any reason why MPlayer should use DirectShow. MPlayer is simply a piece of software that works 100% independent of the DirectShow Framework. That is why MPlayer runs on Windows as well as on Linux and MacOS. DirectShow based applications are limited to Windows and they always depend on DirectShow Filters. At the same time MPlayer is 100% self-contained, absolutely no need for Codecs, Filters, Plugins, whatever...

Furthermore MPlayer supports a number of different renderers! The ones that work on Windows are at least: Overlay (DirectX), OpenGL and OpenGL V2. Overlay is supposed to work on Windows, no matter which Windows version you are running - it's a basic feature of Windows and it's Window's fallback renderer for all applications! Even DirectShow applications fall back to Overlay if all other renderes fail. Also note that applications can use the Overlay renderer, even if they do not use DirectShow! That's exactly what MPlayer does...

[[)370|\|470!2]

...you assume that Mplayer is crap or doesn't work on Vista.

I didn't say "crap" towards MPlayer. I didn't say "crap" at all actually. :) I didn't say it doesn't work in Vista — you said so in your 1st post. xD Though it actally works in vista. Moreover, if you disable Vista Aero, you won't notice any difference as it was in XP. Peace.

[[)370|\|470!2]

...your tone is very rude and disrespectful towards doom9 members and especially MPlayer developers.

You're right... Although i'm kinda tired frankly hearing from all corners people bashing vista & m$ for almost no apparent reason. Makes me cross the line sometimes. Not that i'm agreed with all M$ does, nor that i like everything in vista.

[vlada]

In my computer (Turion 64, 2 GHz) it takes 30 seconds to create the font cache.

I don't know, try to delete the cache (C:\Documents and Settings\user\.fonts.cache-1), maybe it got corrupted.

Didn't help. :-( I let it running for 15 minutes without any change. Just eating all CPU and no window is displayed. The strange thing is, that font cache file isn't created anymore after starting SMPlayer. But it was there before I deleted it. :confused:

I had to return back to 0.5.2, which works fine for me.

[Gusar]

You're right... Although i'm kinda tired frankly hearing from all corners people bashing vista & m$ for almost no apparent reason.Oh, there are plenty of reasons to bash Vista, MMCSS being the biggest one, but let's not go there as it's off topic here.

But the fact is also, that MPlayer is not fully compatible with Vista. So probably some documentation is in order, stating to either use GL outputs or deal with the fact that Aero will switch off. If you're watching a movie in fullscreen, it doesn't matter anyway. Also with Aero off, you get higher performance.

[Razorholt]

Small problem with -vo gl is that it makes my PC reboot when I open a HD file (720p MOV). OpenGL would help if it could come up with an update that fixes that problem, as well as the fullscreen issue - I already stated that issue here on doom9 and I'm patiently waiting for an update...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Small problem with -vo gl is that it makes my PC reboot when I open a HD file (720p MOV). OpenGL would help if it could come up with an update that fixes that problem, as well as the fullscreen issue - I already stated that issue here on doom9 and I'm patiently waiting for an update...

I had a lot of problems with the gl renderer in the past, like video disappearing or messing up when resizing or going fullscreen. But with the recent builds the gl renderer seems to work 100% fine. Might also be the latest Catalyst drivers update, not sure. Also note I'm on XP x64-Edition, not Vista...

[rvm]

Didn't help. :-( I let it running for 15 minutes without any change. Just eating all CPU and no window is displayed. The strange thing is, that font cache file isn't created anymore after starting SMPlayer. But it was there before I deleted it. :confused:

I had to return back to 0.5.2, which works fine for me.

Then probably it's another problem, not related to the font cache.

What package did you install? Mine (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/windows/download.php) or LoRd_MuldeR's?

Does it happen when you just run smplayer or when you try to open a file?

Do you have the option "Create index if needed" in Preferences->Performance enabled by any chance?

[foxyshadis]

Mulder, you've never been pissed off by a shoddy installer? You really have an obligation to reset associations as you found them if you change them, or more generally anything changed in the registry and system configs. It's disrespectful to your users otherwise, and guaranteed to anger people.

That's exactly the reason why I never let any application automatically associate anything, because every so often a completely broken uninstaller comes along and breaks everything.

Razorholt, a random diatribe against Vista is completely uncalled for. You're not supposed to encourage pointless flamewars.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Again: MPlayer doesn't need an Uninstaller at all. My Installer is basically a SFX, that extracts the files to the install folder. No other files will be put on the system (except Startmenu entries). Nor will any registry changes happen, except those for the file associations. And even those will happen only if explicitly selected by the user. So simply deleting the Install folder would be enough - the uninstaller was added by user request only, it's really not needed! Of course I 100% agree that backing up the old file associations before install and restoring them after uninstall would be a nice feature! But it needs to be implemented and my time is limited because of exams. So this will remain on my to-do list for some time. Also there are some problems to solve: What if you run the Installer for a second time? Will it backup the associations that have already been changed then? And what if the user has manually changed the file associations after Install? Will I still restore the state before Install at Uninstall time? Then I would undo the user's manual changes and the next users starts crying. Furthermore I really don't think that file associations are that much important: You can re-associate any file extension to any application at any time with a few clicks....

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What package did you install? Mine (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/windows/download.php) or LoRd_MuldeR's?

Would it make any difference? I don't use subtitles at all, so that feature is very untested in my package.
If I can improve anything for that, I would like to know...

[rvm]

Would it make any difference?

Different versions of MPlayer.

[foxyshadis]

But it needs to be implemented and my time is limited because of exams. So this will remain on my to-do list for some time.
Sure, that's understandable.
Also there are some problems to solve: What if you run the Installer for a second time? Will it backup the associations that have already been changed then? And what if the user has manually changed the file associations after Install? Will I still restore the state before Install at Uninstall time? Then I would undo the user's manual changes and the next users starts crying. Furthermore I really don't think that file associations are that much important: You can re-associate any file extension to any application at any time with a few clicks....
You just check whether the association is what you think it should be. If so, you just leave it alone, no changes or new backups.

The issue that raises - what if you reinstall but to a different folder - has no real solution without registry timestamps, so you just do whatever you want.

[[)370|\|470!2]

Of course I 100% agree that backing up the old file associations before install and restoring them after uninstall would be a nice feature! But it needs to be implemented and my time is limited because of exams. So this will remain on my to-do list for some time. Also there are some problems to solve: What if you run the Installer for a second time? Will it backup the associations that have already been changed then?

Tell me one thing... Was that a first installer you ever made? I thought the fact, that installer shouldn't even touch associations that belongs to other programs using these files, obvious enough. There's quite plenty of room in registry, to simply add new ones for a new proggie, then remove if/when uninstalled, ya know. But no, this dumb thing you created have to completely destroy any reg entries for these files. Good job, now my system doesn't even know what .wav files are. It asks me what program should it use to open it... Needless to say that from now on i'm not installing a single byte of code if it comes from you. :mad:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Needless to say that from now on i'm not installing a single byte of code if it comes from you. :mad:
Congratulations :)

[vlada]

rvm
Sorry for my late reply. I use LoRd_MuldeR's installer and I also tried official SMPlayer installer. Both with the same result.

The player won't even start, it just eats my whole CPU. Since it won't show up, I can't set anything in the player. It is strange that other people don't have any problems. I'm thinking what could be so special on my PC. But it is an ordinary A64 3500+ with Win XP and Comodo Firewall/Antivirus. Which now reminds me, that the antivirus causes the same problem to Apache server. I'm going to check this...

[rvm]

Yes, that's strange.

Have you checked in the task manager which process uses most of the CPU when this happens? Probably it's smplayer, but who knows, maybe it's the antivirus or something.

You can also try to delete the config file, just in case it got corrupted (C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.smplayer\smplayer.ini) but I really doubt this will fix anything.

[vlada]

Yes, it's smplayer.exe which uses my whole CPU. I've already tried to disable the antivirus, but it didn't help. I'll try to uninstall it completely.

I already tried to delete the configuration file, but it didn't help. Btw. is it possible to force SMPlayer to put the .ini file to the same directory as the executable? This would make it a real portable application.

[rvm]

Btw. is it possible to force SMPlayer to put the .ini file to the same directory as the executable? This would make it a real portable application.

Rename smplayer.exe to smplayer_portable.exe.

BTW, when I have a little bit of time I'll compile a version for you with debugging info in a console, you we could see where it gets hung.

[vlada]

rvm
Thanks, it now works as a real portable application. Just one suggestion: instead of renaming the .exe file, I think it might be better if smplayer looks first for the smplayer.ini in it's directory. If it is presented, then it should behave like a portable player.

I put the latest version (SVN_r47) on my flash and it works fine on my computer at work. But I'm afraid it will hang again on my home computer.

Here at work I found another problem. The installer won't allow me to install smplayer if I'm not administrator. Why?

[rvm]

rvm
Thanks, it now works as a real portable application. Just one suggestion: instead of renaming the .exe file, I think it might be better if smplayer looks first for the smplayer.ini in it's directory. If it is presented, then it should behave like a portable player.

That's an idea. But the first time to run smplayer.ini wouldn't exist.

I put the latest version (SVN_r47) on my flash and it works fine on my computer at work. But I'm afraid it will hang again on my home computer.

I compiled a version with a debugging console:
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/temp/smplayer_debug.7z

Run it instead of smplayer.exe. It should open a console. Copy the texts that appear in it just before the hang (if any).

EDIT: By mistake, when updating the website, I've deleted that file. Unfortunately I can't upload it again until tomorrow.

Here at work I found another problem. The installer won't allow me to install smplayer if I'm not administrator. Why?

I haven't tested (this computer uses FAT32, so everybody can write everywhere). Maybe the installer tries to write something in the registry.

[vlada]

I downloaded the debug version already. Here is the output:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3792/smplayerbl6.png

Can you find out anything out of it? I'll try to uninstall my antivirus tomorrow. Unfortunately I have no more time today. I need to go to sleep. In 4 ours I have to wake up and go to work. :-(

According to the location of .ini file, it should be enough to create an empty file in the program's directory. That's not much more complicated then renaming the .exe file. And I think it is more logical, some other programs (for example uTorrent) are doing it this way too.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You just check whether the association is what you think it should be. If so, you just leave it alone, no changes or new backups.

Okay, I think here is something that works like you suggest:
--> http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/SetFileAssoc.exe

Please everybody test it and give me some feedback.
Just put the new SetFileAssoc.exe into the install folder (where SMPlayer.exe/MPUI.exe are located) and replace the old one.
You can now choose the application you want to associate the files with or you can choose to restore your old file associations.
Of course restore will work only if the associations were changed with the new SetFileAssoc.exe...

[rvm]

I downloaded the debug version already.
...
Can you find out anything out of it?

Is that all the output? No more?

Well, just after that, smplayer tries to make a connection to another running instance.

Here I'm seeing a small mistake, it tries to make that connection even if you configured not to do it (I just fixed in the svn: windows update (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/download/smplayer_update_svn_r73.7z)).

I guess it gets hung there, waiting an answer from port 8000 (that's the default). The strange thing is that it only would have to wait 200 ms as much. After that it should give up.

Anyway check that the port 8000 is open in your firewall (at least for localhost). Maybe that's causing the problem.

Or if that port is already used by another application, edit the smplayer configuration file and change it (look for "connection_port"). If it's empty or it doesn't exist create it yourself:

[preferences]
connection_port=8000

According to the location of .ini file, it should be enough to create an empty file in the program's directory. That's not much more complicated then renaming the .exe file. And I think it is more logical, some other programs (for example uTorrent) are doing it this way too.

I'll try to do it.

[rvm]

Okay, I think here is something that works like you suggest:
--> http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/SetFileAssoc.exe

Please everybody test it and give me some feedback.


I'll test it tomorrow.

That's a feature request for smplayer, so it can be very useful.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'll test it tomorrow.

That's a feature request for smplayer, so it can be very useful.

Of course my tool will work with SMPlayer only too, but then the "Associate with MPUI" option would be useless...
Would be even better, if I could add an "Enqueue in SMPlayer" option for Winodws Explorer. You don't want to implement that? ^^

[rvm]

You don't want to implement that? ^^

Sorry, I'll do it. I have a lot of feature requests and not much time.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sorry, I'll do it. I have a lot of feature requests and not much time.

Nice. Thanks for your efforts :)

[rvm]

I've just added that possibility, in svn r75:

* Added new option for command line: -add-to-playlist. If another instance
of smplayer is found, the specified files will be added to that instance's
playlist (nothing more will be done). If no other instance is found,
this option won't do anything, the specified files will be opened as usual
in a new instance.


Not much tested, and I haven't even compiled for Windows yet.

[vlada]

rvm
My guess about the Antivirus was correct. Yesterday I uninstalled it and now SMPlayer works without any problems. The Antivirus is probably blocking the communication. I have the same problem Apache, I'll report it to Comodo and hopefully they'll fix it.

It's been already reported for Apache here (http://forums.comodo.com/help_for_comodo_antivirus/apache_22_blocked_by_comodo_antivirus-t10090.0.html).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've just added that possibility, in svn r75:
Not much tested, and I haven't even compiled for Windows yet.

Woah, nice :thanks:

If you do compile, I would be very happy for a static build :)

[rvm]

I don't have a static build yet, but here you have an ordinary update: smplayer_update_svn_r78.7z (http://smplayer.wiki.sourceforge.net/space/showimage/smplayer_update_svn_r78.7z).

I tested a bit, and it seems it works ok.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I don't have a static build yet, but here you have an ordinary update: smplayer_update_svn_r78.7z (http://smplayer.wiki.sourceforge.net/space/showimage/smplayer_update_svn_r78.7z).

I tested a bit, and it seems it works ok.

Works like a charm :)

I have updated SetFileAssoc.exe accordingly:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/temp/SetFileAssoc.exe

Sidenote: SMPlayer crashed when I tired to dock the Playlist into the main window for the first time. I tried to reproduce that crash, but no "luck" so far...


// EDIT

BTW: What do you think about popping up the playlist, when an -add-to-playlist command is received?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

1. Updated SMPlayer front-end to v0.5.60 r-78
2. Various installer improvements (hopefully I did not break too much things ^^)
3. Revamped SetFileAssoc.exe tool, which now allows to restore your old associations*
4. Brand new Auto Update tool

* restore works only, if your associations were changed with the new version!

[cinezone]

Mplayer AthlonXP builds are broken. The "mplayer2007.08.19.Athlon-XP" is the latest working one.

[A-star]

Mplayer AthlonXP builds are broken. The "mplayer2007.08.19.Athlon-XP" is the latest working one.
Good to know, Thanks for the info.

[PANIC!]

Hi

first of all i love your package! Plays videos very nicely!

I have just one little problem.
Very often when i play a video it is just black (overlay problem???).
When i use directx:noaccl picture is tehre but bad quality.

When i go to the nvidia settings panel and reset the color correction to default picture is back there.
I play a few videos and it is gone again.

Any ideas?

[rvm]

rvm
Just one suggestion: instead of renaming the .exe file, I think it might be better if smplayer looks first for the smplayer.ini in it's directory. If it is presented, then it should behave like a portable player.

Implemented that possibility in svn r97.
Thanks for the suggestion :)

[vlada]

Thanks a lot.

[avih]

LoRd_MuldeR, thx for packing mplayer, smplayer and mpui in one package and updating it regularly. Many users are thanking you :)

I was wondering, if you compile mplayer yourself, could you please compile it with fribidi or find a version that includes it if you don't compile it yourself? subtitles work great in English, but in Hebrew they're in the opposite direction...

cheers :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I was wondering, if you compile mplayer yourself, could you please compile it with fribidi or find a version that includes it if you don't compile it yourself? subtitles work great in English, but in Hebrew they're in the opposite direction...

No, I don't compile myself. I use the builds provided by Celtic Druid...

[Gusar]

I was wondering, if you compile mplayer yourself, could you please compile it with fribidi or find a version that includes it if you don't compile it yourself? subtitles work great in English, but in Hebrew they're in the opposite direction...The CCCP (http://www.cccp-project.net/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=5740d6e10842db5f3c3c289a4309c45d&topic=811.0) build has fribidi support.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Mplayer AthlonXP builds are broken. The "mplayer2007.08.19.Athlon-XP" is the latest working one.
Did you try the "Generic" build on an AthlonXP ???

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*UPDATE*

1. Updated SMPlayer front-end to v0.5.60 r-102
2. AthlonXP build downgraded to 2007-08-19*
3. Various installer fixes/improvements

* the latest AthlonXP build (2007-09-10) was reported to crash :(

[Razorholt]

Dear mplayer Gurus,

Yesterday I experienced the "white screen" bug while playing a series of videos, one after another. The audio was ok but no video... well, unless I would slide my cmd window over the white screen. Weird?


Cheers,
- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

:D

Top 100 Downloads

Rank Program Name Downloads

1. TV v2.0 657159
2. AVG AntiVirus Free 7.5.488a1157 434931
[...]
40. MPlayer for Windows (2007-09-30) 70498
[...]
46. Windows Media Player XP 11.0.5721.5145 62569
47. Windows Media Player 9 62022

http://www.freewarefiles.com/top100_downloads.php

[Lupo73]

This MPlayer package is very powerful...and progressively very famous...
Also because of MPUI is portable yet and SMPlayer is become portable (now save settings in a ini file), you can think to create a completely portable version of it now...and distribute it in a general-build zip archive (without the installation process), didn't you?
Very good software!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

you can think to create a completely portable version of it now...and distribute it in a general-build zip archive (without the installation process), didn't you?

Well, the purpose of my little project is to provide an "all-in-one" installer. If you don't want to use an installer, simply grab the latest SMPlayer (as 7z archive) from official site and get and up-to-date MPlayer.exe from one of the sites that provide pre-compiled binaries (Celtic Druid, Gianluigi Tiesi, CCCP)...

[vlada]

You need to do something with this:
31. RealPlayer 11.0.0.181 Beta 92814

:-D

Personally I don't understand, how can somebody use RealPlayer....

Then I have one question regarding MPlayer: Is it possible to vertically adjust DVD subtitles. I'm afraid not, but I'm asking anyway. Also there is a bug in subtitle rendering I mentioned here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=110830&page=2). Do you know if anybody's aware of it? I know I should rather ask at MPlayer's forum, but I hope somebody here might know it too.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-10-10)
[2007-10-10]
* MPlayer binaries updated to v1.0rc2 (SVN-r24722)
* SMPlayer updated to v0.5.60+SVN-r158
* Binary Codec Package updated to (2007-10-07)
* AutoUpdate tool improved

Note that you cannot use the AutoUpdater this time, so please manually download the installer...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-10-11)
[2007-10-11]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r24762-4.2.1
* SMPlayer updated to v0.5.61 (SVN-r159)

[helms]

The light package doesn't seem to include smplayer. The mpui included in the your package re centers on the screen every time a video file repeats or another file in the queue is started compared to the default mpui which stays in the place on the screen it is moved to when a file repeats e.t.c.

[Clobon]

Hi there.

--- snip

question regarding css

--- snap

Ok, noone.

Then just thanks for a great softwarepackage.

regards/MfG, Clobon

[reepa]

Also because of MPUI is portable yet and SMPlayer is become portable (now save settings in a ini file), you can think to create a completely portable version of it now...and distribute it in a general-build zip archive (without the installation process), didn't you?
Very good software!

If you don't care for an installer, I zipped up the 2007-10-11 Generic build:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bdnu9vyenzy
http://www.zshare.net/download/4312986fba833d/

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The light package doesn't seem to include smplayer. The mpui included in the your package re centers on the screen every time a video file repeats or another file in the queue is started compared to the default mpui which stays in the place on the screen it is moved to when a file repeats e.t.c.

That's correct.

[skystrife]

fontconfig appears to have been disabled in this build, where it was enabled in the previous ones. May I ask why?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

fontconfig appears to have been disabled in this build, where it was enabled in the previous ones. May I ask why?
This time I used the builds kindly provided by Gianluigi "Sherpya" Tiesi:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

[cstrikedish]

It looks very nice! Download to try. :cool:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-11-02)

[2007-11-02]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r24930
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.61+SVN-r348

[Dkruskie]

Thanks for the update :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-11-18)

[2007-11-18]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r25088
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.62 (SVN-r418)
* QT Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.3.2
* NSIS updated to Version 2.33

Note: Due to a bug in the QT Framework, SMPlayer currently doesn't open files with a name starting with a ' character.
This problem applies to the command-line only. Opening such files via File -> Open or via Drag & Drop does work.

[HarryM]

SMplayer is very good, big progress, much, much better than MPUI.

[temproh]

Is it possible to use CoreAVC instead of FFmpeg with MPlayer/MPUI? (I'm using Celtic Druid's latest MPlayer build and MPUI 1.1.10.) And does it make sense?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is it possible to use CoreAVC instead of FFmpeg with MPlayer/MPUI? (I'm using Celtic Druid's latest MPlayer build and MPUI 1.1.10.) And does it make sense?
There already is a working OpenSource (free) H.264 Decoder in ffmpeg/libavcodec, so the MPlayer Team will definitely stay with that one and will not put any effort in supporting a proprietary H.264 Decoder, such as CoreAVC, in their program. In terms of quality there is absolutely no need to use CoreAVC, because every (properly implemented) H.264 Decoder will produce 100% pixel-identical output! In terms of performance CoreAVC still might be the preferred choice, at least when we talk about pure software H.264 Decoders. But ffmpeg/libavcodec is on the way! There now is multi-threading support for sliced H.264 streams in the ffmpeg/libavcodec decoder. Multi-threading support for H.264 streams without slices (as produced by recent x264 encoder) is not in the official SVN yet, but there already is an experimental patch available. No idea when this will be ready for release, so be patient!

As far as I know there is an unofficial MPlayer patch for CoreAVC support, but I never tested it (nor am I interested in doing so). I'm sure this patch will not make it into the official SVN and it will be useless as soon as the ffmpeg/libavcodec H.264 decoder gets "real" multi-threading support. Furthermore you would need to buy CoreAVC to use that MPlayer patch!

Last but not least performance only matters when it comes to HD material. For regular SD material an up-to-date PC has far enough CPU power for smooth playback, even when using the ffmpeg/libavcodec H.264 decoders! In case you need maximum performance for HD H.264 videos, you might be far better off with a Hardware H.264 decoder (DXVA), instead of a pure software decoder. Neither ffmpeg/libavcodec nor CoreAVC support that (although it was announced for CoreAVC a long time ago), but I think Cyberlink's H.264 decoder does...

[kurt]

@ temproh: rvm described a method: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1021553

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@ temproh: rvm described a method: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1021553But keep in mind that you still have to buy CoreAVC in order to get the CoreAVCDecoder.ax ...

[kurt]

jup, or alternatively you luckily have the (old) test version ... (but I didn't try out if it works yet)

[temproh]

There already is a working OpenSource (free) H.264 Decoder in ffmpeg/libavcodec, so the MPlayer Team will definitely stay with that...

I don't want them to change the used decoder, I would just love to be able to use CoreAVC, too.

In terms of performance CoreAVC still might be the preferred choice, at least when we talk about pure software H.264 Decoders.

I am talking about pure software decoders.

Last but not least performance only matters when it comes to HD material. For regular SD material an up-to-date PC has far enough CPU power for smooth playback, even when using the ffmpeg/libavcodec H.264 decoders!

That's exactly why I want to use CoreAVC: I mostly watch HD material and my PC is not up to date.

rvm described a method: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1021553

Thanks, but I'd like to use it with the CPU optimized builds by Celtic Druid.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks, but I'd like to use it with the CPU optimized builds by Celtic Druid.
If you watch HD H.264 videos, then MPlayer will spent ~99% of it's CPU Time in the H.264 decoder anyway. Hence the H.264 Decoder definitely is the important bottleneck! Everything else will be more or less negligible! So in case you use the CoreAVC Decoder, I wouldn't care too much about CPU Optimized builds of MPlayer, I would care about the Optimizations in CoreAVC ;)

[KornX]

are there any plans by anybody of compiling mplayer with the latest commited eac3 patches, so i could watch my new hd discs?

KornX

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Cannot find any E-AC3 related commit in the SVN log:
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/?view=log

So I guess the E-AC3 patch was not committed yet...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-12-24)

[2007-12-24]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r25513
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.62 (SVN-r533)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/ (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer)

[Carpo]

did i spy coreavc for linux in there :D - might give linux another go on my laptop it works :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

did i spy coreavc for linux in there :D - might give linux another go on my laptop it works :p
Well, there are some patched (unofficial) MPlayer builds out there that seem to support CoreAVC.
But I guess this will work on the Windows platform only and of course it works only if you own CoreAVC!

[Carpo]

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/patches/99_coreavc_linux.diff - :) was what i was refering to

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well, as far as I know, CoreAVC is delivered as .ax file, this means it's actually a Windows DLL file.
So unless you "steal" the sources and compile a Linux binary, the only way to load CoreAVC under Linux would be Wine.
But no idea if CoreAVC can be activated in Wine (I know CoreAVC requires activation!)

Cannot say what that patch you refer to actually does...

[Gusar]

That patch enhances mplayer's dll loader so it can successfully load CoreAVC. There is also a tool to write the registry entries (your activation code) into a file the dll loader will read. This way it's possible to use CoreAVC in linux. The patch at sherpya's site is most likely based on http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/ or some older version of that code. The coreavc-for-linux site also has the registry writing tool and instructions on how to use it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

There is also a tool to write the registry entries (your activation code) into a file the dll loader will read. [..] The coreavc-for-linux site also has the registry writing tool and instructions on how to use it.
I'm not sure if this is a Rule #6 violation :scared:

[Nikos]

I want first denoise and then resize, the correct syntax is:
a. -vf hqdn3d=4:3:6,scale=1280:-2
or
b. -vf scale=1280:-2,hqdn3d=4:3:6

Thanks for any answer.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I want first denoise and then resize, the correct syntax is:
a. -vf hqdn3d=4:3:6,scale=1280:-2
or
b. -vf scale=1280:-2,hqdn3d=4:3:6

Thanks for any answer.

a. :)

[Nikos]

Thank you Lord_Mulder for the quick reply.
I wish you happy new year :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Important notice:
If you can offer webspace + traffic for hosting my MPlayer for Windows package, please contact me.
Thanks in advance!

[smok3]

LoRd_MuldeR: estimated bandwidth/month would be?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR: estimated bandwidth/month would be?

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7203/filestatsfi2.jpg

:o

[smok3]

ok, that shouldn't be a problem, check your pm.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

ok, that shouldn't be a problem, check your pm.
I have done so. Thanks a million!

:thanks:

[Hubbabub]

Important notice:
If you can offer webspace + traffic for hosting my MPlayer for Windows package, please contact me.
Thanks in advance!
Maybe you could talk with the "guys" att videohelp.com
about web hosting your tool
http://www.videohelp.com/contact

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Maybe you could talk with the "guys" att videohelp.com
about web hosting your tool
http://www.videohelp.com/contact

Thanks to smok3 the problem is solved for the moment. But I'll keep that in mind for the future :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2007-12-27)

[2007-12-27]
* Installer updated to NSIS Modern UI 2.0
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.62 (SVN-r538)
* NSIS updated to Version 2.34

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/ (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer)

[KornX]

is there a win32 version out there, where the eac3 patch has been applied?

KornX

[rvm]

Have you tested the CCCP build (http://www.cccp-project.net/smf/index.php?topic=811.0)?

At least it's able to play the sample posted here (http://www.cccp-project.net/smf/index.php?topic=811.msg13959#msg13959).

[KornX]

nah,

it won't do the job, but thx anyway!

KornX

[rvm]

Did you try the options mentioned there? (-ac ffeac3 -demuxer lavf)

[KornX]

oh
i must have overlooked that.
works kind of, but now my cpu is too slow,
because only one core is used :(

but many thx rvm

KornX

[liruogu]

There's a mistake,smplayer_portable can't run,I don't know what to do.Version 11.18/12.24/12.27 are all the same,while version 11.02 works well.The language of my system is Simplified Chinese.

[liruogu]

There's more information about it, it's wrong on qtgui4.dll.

[rvm]

If you're missing a Qt dll, you can get it here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/qt-dlls-4.3.2.7z).

[liruogu]

If you're missing a Qt dll, you can get it here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/qt-dlls-4.3.2.7z).Thank you, but it's not missing, I think there's something wrong with MuldeR's package. I installed smplayer_0.5.62_full_setup.exe on my machine, it works well. I checked MD5 of these three files, they are the same as yours. I reinstalled MPUI.2007-12-27.Full-Package.exe just now, and found these three files are all different from yours, qtgui4.dll is only 3.21MB, much smaller than yours. I replaced these three files with yours, but it won't help. Now I'm sure there must be something wrong since version 11.18, please find it out.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thank you, but it's not missing, I think there's something wrong with MuldeR's package. I installed smplayer_0.5.62_full_setup.exe on my machine, it works well. I checked MD5 of these three files, they are the same as yours. I reinstalled MPUI.2007-12-27.Full-Package.exe just now, and found these three files are all different from yours, qtgui4.dll is only 3.21MB, much smaller than yours. I replaced these three files with yours, but it won't help. Now I'm sure there must be something wrong since version 11.18, please find it out.



UPX :cool:

Executable compression is any means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with the decompression code it needs into a single executable.

Running a compressed executable essentially unpacks the original executable code, then transfers control to it. The effect is the same as if the original uncompressed executable had been run, so compressed and uncompressed executables are indistinguishable to the casual user.

A compressed executable is one variety of self-extracting archive, where compressed data is packaged along with the relevant decompression code in an executable file. It is often possible to decompress a compressed executable without executing it (two such programs are CUP386 and UNP).

Most packed executables decompress directly into the memory and need no free file system space to start. However, some decompressor stubs are known to write the uncompressed executable to the file system in order to start it.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX for more info...

[RNiK]

I don't kwow if this is the right forum section to ask for this... :p

However: why I'm getting lots of blocks watching this (http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=8TURUQU1) (anime episode) with MPlayer?? No problem using VLC instead.

:thanks:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I don't kwow if this is the right forum section to ask for this... :p

However: why I'm getting lots of blocks watching this (http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=8TURUQU1) (anime episode) with MPlayer?? No problem using VLC instead.

:thanks:

Your video is encoded in Xvid (MPEG-4 ASP).
If you see more blocks in MPlayer than in VLC, this means: VLC is using some postprocessing/deblocking filter that MPlayer isn't using.
So if you are using the SMPlayer front-end, then try "Video » Filters » Postprocessing" and see the results ;)


//EDIT

There's something strange going on with that video:
Playback performance in MPlayer is horrible. I get one frame every 10 seconds. audio and video totally out of sync.

Also I see this message on the log:
************************************************
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

I highly doubt my machine (Core2 Quad Q6600) is too slow to play this ;)
Also VLC or MPC+ffdshow play that file absolutely smooth. Really strange...

[rvm]

There should be something really strange with that file. It reports to be at 119.881 fps, and mplayer tries to play it at that speed (that's why it says your computer is too slow, it can't play it at such speed).

It plays better adding these options: -forceidx -fps 25
But the audio is not sync'd. Maybe it's a matter of finding the right value for the fps.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have "unpacked" the video with Avidemux and now it plays 100% smooth at 119.881 fps.

[Razorholt]

Speaking of postprocessing, how can I tweak mplayer in order to improve the video quality on LCD monitors? I've been asking that question once I think but never get any input.

Thanks,
- Dan

[Yong]

-vf pp=ac,hqdn3d :D
and use opengl renderer with the experimental 5x5 usharp mask scaler.
video filters explaination on mplayer man page (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#VIDEO FILTERS)

just my 2cent :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

how can I tweak mplayer in order to improve the video quality on LCD monitors?
Use the "software scaling" filter in SMPlayer ;)

[Razorholt]

@Yong: Good suggestion. I added -vf pp=ac,hqdn3d=3:2:3:3 to my cmd line and I think it is improving the video a little bit but the picture is still blurry though.

@LoRd: how do I include that to my cmd line?


Thanks,
- Dan

[Yong]

hmm actually pp=ac is high quality dering + deblocking filter, while hqdn3d is high quality denoiser :p
if u wan to add software scaler, to existing filter chain,
ur cmd should look like this, eg:

-vf pp,hqdn3d,scale=1024:-2

by default, mplayer use bicubic for software scaler, but its much complicated for tweaking imho :D

if u wan to make ur video look sharper, u can try unsharp mask,
eg: unsharp=l3x3:1.5:c3x3:1.5

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@LoRd: how do I include that to my cmd line?
Use this in order to upscale the video to fullscreen resolution, using "lanczos" software scaler:
-sws 9 -vf-add scale=1280:-2

Assuming your horizontal screen resolution is 1280. Otherwise replace the "1280" with whatever fits your horizontal screen resolution.
This is going to eat a lot of CPU cycles, so you better don't use it with HD stuff (which would be senseless anyway).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-01-20]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r25803
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.62 (SVN-r693)
* MPUI compatibility fixes (Build 38)

[Hubbabub]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

:thanks: Thanks - Danke - Tack :thanks:

[Razorholt]

hmm actually pp=ac is high quality dering + deblocking filter, while hqdn3d is high quality denoiser :p
if u wan to add software scaler, to existing filter chain,
ur cmd should look like this, eg:

-vf pp,hqdn3d,scale=1024:-2

by default, mplayer use bicubic for software scaler, but its much complicated for tweaking imho :D

if u wan to make ur video look sharper, u can try unsharp mask,
eg: unsharp=l3x3:1.5:c3x3:1.5

I think I'm happy with -ssf ls=20 cs=20 -vf pp=ac but it still looks way better on CRT monitor though.

[RNiK]

I have "unpacked" the video with Avidemux and now it plays 100% smooth at 119.881 fps.
:confused:

I still don't get what's the problem with that file and how to play it smoothly with MPlayer...

I don't think the problem it's postprocessing related; VLC plays it OK even with postprocessing=0.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

:confused:

I still don't get what's the problem with that file and how to play it smoothly with MPlayer...

I don't think the problem it's postprocessing related; VLC plays it OK even with postprocessing=0.

Something is borked with your file. I'm not sure what it is, but MPlayer obviously doesn't like it! Might be the framerate of 119.881 fps, which is exceptionally high! Also the video uses "packed bitstream". Packed bitstream is a "hack" introduced by DivX to workaround limitations of VfW. Packed bitstream produces improper MPEG-4 bistream, so it might cause problems with some players! At the same time there are some (hardware) players that require packed bistream. The best is to avoid packed bitstream by all means, except you have one of those Standalones that require it. Avidemux can "unpack" (or "pack") the MPEG-4 stream without re-encoding it. That's what I did with your files. The results plays better in MPlayer... The really stange hing is: Sometimes the (unpacked) video plays 100% fine in MPlayer and sometimes it doesn't! I cannot find the reason. Seems to be completely random. I don't change anything and suddenly it plays okay. When I try later, it doesn't play...

[Yong]

I think I'm happy with -ssf ls=20 cs=20 -vf pp=ac but it still looks way better on CRT monitor though.

hmm i tried use ur setting but doesnt seem to work lol:confused:
need more testing:sly:

btw what video renderer are u using?
u can try opengl renderer, with following options to save ur cpu time:
-vo gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5:customprog=edgeenh.fp
this will make ur video look very sharp:D

[Razorholt]

hmm i tried use ur setting but doesnt seem to work lol:confused:
need more testing:sly:

btw what video renderer are u using?
u can try opengl renderer, with following options to save ur cpu time:
-vo gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5:customprog=edgeenh.fp
this will make ur video look very sharp:D

I get a B&W picture... :o

[Yong]

I get a B&W picture... :o
great:sly:
lol, what is ur graphic card?
post ur full command line pls :p
try remove :customprog=edgeenh.fp from mplayer cmd and see if the problem still persists.

hmm mplayer version? i think u have to use r25796 or newer, older version wont work as Reimar just added lscale/cscale=4 or 5 afew days ago :D:D

[Razorholt]

great:sly:
lol, what is ur graphic card?
post ur full command line pls :p
try remove :customprog=edgeenh.fp from mplayer cmd and see if the problem still persists.

hmm mplayer version? i think u have to use r25796 or newer, older version wont work as Reimar just added lscale/cscale=4 or 5 afew days ago :D:D

I know where LoRd_MuldeR is getting his mplayer builds but from what site are you getting yours?

[Reimar]

u can try opengl renderer, with following options to save ur cpu time:
-vo gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5:customprog=edgeenh.fp
this will make ur video look very sharp:D

That works like this only if edgeenh.fp is in your current directory...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I know where LoRd_MuldeR is getting his mplayer builds but from what site are you getting yours?

Maybe he is compiling MPlayer himself? :D

Note: Gianluigi Tiesi has just updated his builds, so "cscale=5:lscale=5" is supported now.
I have updated my package too...

[Yong]

That works like this only if edgeenh.fp is in your current directory...
okok forgot about that, sorry :p

I know where LoRd_MuldeR is getting his mplayer builds but from what site are you getting yours?
yeah i compiling mplayer myself so i can try some experimental patch without keep bugging other compilers to include them :o
btw u have to download this to make customprg=edgeenh.fp work,
right click n save: edgeenh.fp (http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/TOOLS/edgeenh.fp?revision=25816) :D

[Bigmango]

Thanks for the update.

2 questions:

1. One of the features of the Linux MPlayer I like a lot is "real time file seeking" (when using the slider to seek through a movie while playing, the movie seeking happens in real time). This does not work in SMPlayer (when seeking I can't see where I am seeking to, the video is updated only after I release the slider). This file seeking in linux is extremely fast; I have been missing this in windows.

Is it possible to update it with this feature ?

2. SMPlayer does not support the vista aero interface. Every time I start playing a video the vista areo interface resets itself into compatibility mode (the screen is reset and the smplayer window is pushed back behind my other open windows (-> the video disappears behind the other windows). And when I click on stop playing or when the video reaches the end, this happens again (the vista aero interface is reset again, and so the smplayer windows is pushed back behind all my other open windows again).

This behavior is irritating. Is it possible to fix this, so that smplayer can support the vista UI properly ?

Thanks a lot.



Edit: 1 more bug, steps to reproduce:

1. maximize the window and play a video
2. click on stop
3. when clicking on play the windows is set back to its original size. This is irritating as I always need to maximize the window again. This, compared to other players, is not a normal behavior.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Bigmango:

1. It's already there: Preferences » Interface » Seeking » Behavior of time slider ;)

2. This is caused by the Overlay renderer, as used by MPlayer by default! Aero doesn't support Overlay, so it will be switched off as soon as an Overlay is created. If you really need the useless Aero gimmicks, try to use the OpenGL renderer instead of DirectX/Overlay. Maybe it works with Aero...

[Bigmango]

@Bigmango:

1. It's already there: Preferences » Interface » Seeking » Behavior of time slider ;)

Awesome ! Works great.

But the seeking in Linux is still faster (or it refreshes the video more often ?). The windows version of avidemux also works as fast. Can you make the seeking as fast as avidemux ?


2. This is caused by the Overlay renderer, as used by MPlayer by default! Aero doesn't support Overlay, so it will be switched off as soon as an Overlay is created. If you really need the useless Aero gimmicks, try to use the OpenGL renderer instead of DirectX/Overlay. Maybe it works with Aero...

The GL rendered works great ! Thx !

CPU use seems to be the same as the directx renderer :) Is there any downside in using the gl rendered compared to directx ?


Oh, and there is one more thing bugging me. Steps to reproduce:

1. maximize the window and play a video
2. click on stop
3. when clicking on play the windows is set back to its original size. This is irritating as I always need to maximize the window again. This, compared to other players, is not a normal behavior.

Can you fix this ?

Edit: the same thing happens when I add or remove filters (the window is set back to its original size). So if I add 5 filers I have to maximize the window again 5 times.... :(

Edit 2 : ok I fixed this by setting "autorisize" to never in the settings :) (but imho this should be by default)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

But the seeking in Linux is still faster (or it refreshes the video more often ?). The windows version of avidemux also works as fast. Can you make the seeking as fast as avidemux ?

Seeking seems to be pretty fast here :p

Nevertheless the difference between MPlayer and Avidemux might be that Avidemux is only jumping to I-Frames when using the slider, while MPlayer can jump to frames of all types. If you happen to jump to a None-I-Frame, then a delay is unavoidable: You either need to go back to the previous I-Frame or wait for the next I-Frame.

Is there any downside in using the gl rendered compared to directx ?

No. As long as the GL renderer works with your hardware/driver combination, it's a lot better then the directx/overlay renderer.
You might want to try "gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5" for even better rendering quality...


Can you fix this ?

I can't, but maybe rvm can do it, if you submit a SMPlayer feature request :)

[Razorholt]

okok forgot about that, sorry :p


yeah i compiling mplayer myself so i can try some experimental patch without keep bugging other compilers to include them :o
btw u have to download this to make customprg=edgeenh.fp work,
right click n save: edgeenh.fp (http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/TOOLS/edgeenh.fp?revision=25816) :D

Here is the thing:

1.- I use mplayer with a Python script. I tried many mplayer.exe version but the recent ones don't seem to be working well, if not at all.

2.- GL/GL2 makes my PC reboot - who's laughing over there? :mad: I have a decent 2.2Ghz Dell Dimension (Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PEGV Graphics controller)

3.- When I switch to GL and a miracle happens - the PC doesn't reboot that is - I can't get to fullscreen mode.


Here is my cmd line:
-vo gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5:customprog=edgeenh.fp -fs -adapter 1 -slave -quiet
-nocolorkey -osdlevel 0 -priority abovenormal -brightness -50 -ao win32 -subcp iso-8859-2
-alang en -softvol -softvol-max 100.0 -af volnorm -speed 1 -spualign 2 -subalign 2
-noframedrop -ssf ls=20 cs=20 -vf pp=ac

Thanks for your help!

- Dan

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Oh, and there is one more thing bugging me. Steps to reproduce:

1. maximize the window and play a video
2. click on stop
3. when clicking on play the windows is set back to its original size. This is irritating as I always need to maximize the window again. This, compared to other players, is not a normal behavior.

Forget my previous answer. There is no need for a feature request!

Goto: Preferences » Interface » Main Window » Autoresize
Set it to "Only after loading a new video" and you should get the desired behavior :)

[Bigmango]

You might want to try "gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5" for even better rendering quality...


Holly Molley. Yes the video is indeed sharper with this setting :)

:thanks:


Edit: this setting should be listed in the options

[Bigmango]

Forget my previous answer. There is no need for a feature request!

Goto: Preferences » Interface » Main Window » Autoresize
Set it to "Only after loading a new video" and you should get the desired behavior :)

Hehe, yes I have discovered this by myself and edited that post 15 minutes ago :) I set the setting to "never auto resize" (this should also be by default imho).

:thanks:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

(this should also be by default imho).

I don't think so. If you open a video, you want to see it at 100% zoom (original size). If the window is never resized automatically and you open a new video, then most probably the window's size won't match the video's size. Hence the video will be scaled to fit into the window. I don't want my videos to be scaled, unless I go fullscreen...

[Bigmango]

I don't think so. If you open a video, you want to see it at 100% zoom (original size).

Yes you are right.

I just tried it. But there seems to be a problem here. With this setting, this happens:

1. open smplayer and open a video to play.
2. set the size to 50% for example
3. close smplayer
4. open a new video -> this new video is now at 50% and not 100% :confused:

Edit: this happens with "resize only after loading new video", "remember position and size" is NOT checked.

[Reimar]

Here is my cmd line:
-vo gl:yuv=4:cscale=5:lscale=5:customprog=edgeenh.fp -fs -adapter 1 -slave -quiet
-nocolorkey -osdlevel 0 -priority abovenormal -brightness -50 -ao win32 -subcp iso-8859-2
-alang en -softvol -softvol-max 100.0 -af volnorm -speed 1 -spualign 2 -subalign 2
-noframedrop -ssf ls=20 cs=20 -vf pp=ac


A few things: firstly, lscale and cscale have no effect as soon as you use customprog.
Secondly, l/cscale=5 seems too extreme to me for a poor Intel card :p
lscale=2 was specifically optimized for Intel cards (though I have not yet found someone to test) but that (like lscale=1 and 3) is a smoothing scaler, not a sharpening one...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

IMO the l/cscale=5 mode does a great job, really! If only the damn v-sync issue wasn't there :rolleyes:

[Yong]

A few things: firstly, lscale and cscale have no effect as soon as you use customprog.
Secondly, l/cscale=5 seems too extreme to me for a poor Intel card :p
i found myself is silly by using the combination of l/cscale=5 + customprog lol:D
cause im not yet test it througly:p
hmm btw, is usharp mask scaling function on opengl renderer hardware accelerated?

[Yong]

Here is the thing:

1.- I use mplayer with a Python script. I tried many mplayer.exe version but the recent ones don't seem to be working well, if not at all.

2.- GL/GL2 makes my PC reboot - who's laughing over there? :mad: I have a decent 2.2Ghz Dell Dimension (Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PEGV Graphics controller)

3.- When I switch to GL and a miracle happens - the PC doesn't reboot that is - I can't get to fullscreen mode.
Thanks for your help!

- Dan
1. what u means by not working well, crash or bugs?
2. Update ur graphic driver and see whether if its help.
3. -fs still doesnt work for you?:confused:

[rvm]

Awesome ! Works great.

But the seeking in Linux is still faster (or it refreshes the video more often ?). The windows version of avidemux also works as fast. Can you make the seeking as fast as avidemux ?

The option to update the video while dragging the time slider has been added recently. Currently the video is updated every 200 ms (a very low value makes this feature very slow and unusable). Right now it's not possible to change this value but probably in a future version it will be.

[Razorholt]

1. what u means by not working well, crash or bugs?
2. Update ur graphic driver and see whether if its help.
3. -fs still doesnt work for you?:confused:


1. Mplayer doesn't fire up at all - or does and then closes immidiately.
2. Did that and it didn't help
3. -fs expands the picture within the gui and won't go fullscreen. Due to the fact that we're using overlay? I dunno...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

3. -fs expands the picture within the gui and won't go fullscreen. Due to the fact that we're using overlay? I dunno...
When using a GUI front-end, then -fs is a no-go! The front-end is responsible for going fullscreen...

[Razorholt]

too bad... I'll stick to -ssf ls=20 cs=20 -vf pp=ac then.

Thanks for the help.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-02-10]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r25962
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r827)
* NSIS updated to Version 2.35

Note: There was a critical security fix in MPlayer. It's highly recommended to update!

[KornX]

@rvm:

you keep compiling the eac3 patch in every new version i guess
thx by the way

KornX

[rvm]

Sorry, only mplayer-r25957-mingw.7z has eac3 support for now.

[KornX]

why?
too much trouble each time ;)

and have you ever considered to implement some diffs from here?
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
especially the log in color is much more easy to read...

thx anyway

KornX

[rvm]

why?
too much trouble each time ;)

It's just simply I don't consider this patch very useful for smplayer yet, as it's necessary to change the audio codec and demuxer manually, and smplayer has some trouble when the demuxer is changed.

[~bT~]

can somebody please tell me the RRGGBBAA code for yellow pls?

actually, i'd be grateful if you can provide me the whole line i need to input in options to use ssa/ass library and also have yellow subs.

:thanks:

[dimzon]

can somebody please tell me the RRGGBBAA code for yellow pls?
FFFF0000
:)

[~bT~]

^ :thanks: can you maybe provide a link where i can get more colour codes in that format pls?

[dimzon]

^ :thanks: can you maybe provide a link where i can get more colour codes in that format pls?
http://www.pitt.edu/~nisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html
http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm
http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

just add 00 to the end of RRGGBB to obtain RRGGBBAA

[~bT~]

^ :thanks: once again :D

[vlada]

The easiest way to get RGB code for a color you like is GIMP or any other GTK based application with color chooser.

http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/figures/colorselection.png

[~bT~]

^ RRGGBBAA

its the AA bit which kinda stumped me.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That's because colors are usually stored as 32-Bit words, although there are only 24-Bit of information (8-Bit per color). So eight "dummy" bits are appended to form a 32-Bit word. Sometimes those additional 8-Bits are used to store the "Alpha" value, which specifies the transparency of the pixel...

[krosswindz]

^ :thanks: can you maybe provide a link where i can get more colour codes in that format pls?

http://www.drpeterjones.com/colorcalc/

you can get the hex color codes for the color you choose and 00 for "a" values in the end.

[~bT~]

i have a slight problem..

why does mplayer display subtitle colour differently to vobsub?

for eg; in mpc using vobsub to display idx/sub subs, sub colour is yellow but the same subs in mplayer are black, gray or sometimes orange? is it a bug? or am i doing something wrong??

[~bT~]

^ anybody??

[LoRd_MuldeR]

AFAIK the colors are stored in the individual VobSUB file. So you might need to edit the file, if MPlayer cannot "overwrite" the colors from the file...

[Reimar]

i have a slight problem..

why does mplayer display subtitle colour differently to vobsub?

for eg; in mpc using vobsub to display idx/sub subs, sub colour is yellow but the same subs in mplayer are black, gray or sometimes orange? is it a bug? or am i doing something wrong??

MPlayer does not support colour at all for vobs, which in particular means that the movie colour will shine through (in a weird way caused by YUV). Either get an ass subtitle for the movie or use -vo gl: osdcolor=... (without the space, had to add that to stop it from being replaced by a smilie ...)

[~bT~]

^ :thanks: adding: -vo gl: osdcolor=0xFFFF00 solved my problems :D

[kostiksimb]

Mplayer from (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer) -- Last Update: 2008-02-10

SMPLAYER from (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer) version 0.6.0rc1

SMPLAYER from (http://smplayer.berlios.de/) version 0.6.0rc3

when new version of MPLAYER will be released?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

when new version of MPLAYER will be released?

MPlayer is an OpenSource Project. They constantly commit new SVN revisions (several per day), but "official" releases are rare.
So the question is: When will somebody create a fresh (win32) build of MPlayer?

In theory, one could create a new build every single day, but of course I cannot update my package day-to-day ;)

I'll update my package as soon as a new build is available at this location:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-04-05]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26334
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1067)
* NSIS updated to Version 2.36

† New builds are up, removed fontconfig support for now †

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Be warned:

Latest MPlayer builds seem to crash on AC-3 (a52) decoding:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1936046&group_id=205275&atid=992986

DVD Playback is broken for now, use "-nosound" as a workaround...

[smok3]

a note: mplayer.exe (generic build was choosen during installation) will crash when trying to play *.iso dvd files (via smplayer), when replaced with version found in installer everything seems to work (upx problem of some sort probably?).

a question: any clues if there is a dvd navigation planned in mplayer (this century)?

[Gusar]

a question: any clues if there is a dvd navigation planned in mplayer (this century)?DVD navigation is already there, with two minor limitations:

1.) Selecting the audio and subtitle streams from the menu doesn't work yet. Not a big deal, because you can use the usual mplayer methods to switch those during playback (by default with '#' for audio, 'j' for subs).

2.) Color SPU support is not there, so instead of the dvd graphics, the selected button is highlighted with a semi-transparent rectangle.

This is of course, if mplayer was compiled with dvdnav support, which I don't think is true for any windows builds floating around. But if you compile your own build, or someone else does it, you get this:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9741/mplayerdvdnav2nn7.th.jpg (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayerdvdnav2nn7.jpg)

You need mplayer's fork of dvdnav, linux instructions on how to build (should be similar for mingw although it would be nice to have a static build) are here (http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/DOCS/tech/dvdnav-howto.txt?view=co). Ignore the part about still menus, they work too now.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

a note: mplayer.exe (generic build was choosen during installation) will crash when trying to play *.iso dvd files (via smplayer), when replaced with version found in installer everything seems to work (upx problem of some sort probably?).

As mentioned before: It's the AC-3 Decoder (Dolby Digital) that is crashing :o

It's already reported on the Bugtracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1936046&group_id=205275&atid=992986), I'll update my package as soon as fixed builds are available...

[HayateYuki]

Well it still does not play unicode files for some reason.
OK, it just because MPlayer have no native Unicode support on Windows.
Although some front-ends have Unicode user interface, it cannot play any files with Unicode names not including in your system codepage.
It seems some simplified Chinese characters in MPUI is buggy on traditional Chinese System...
e.g. Play URL dialogue, some characters show as ? instead of characters.
I think Delphi maybe have not fully native Unicode support as MSVC.

But, I didn't know why nobody notice this.
Native Unicode support is necessary for any media programs on Windows, especially for east asian users...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-04-13]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26430
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1087)
* The SSE crash in MPlayer was fixed

† SSE Problem should be fixed now (or not :D), config change color -> msgcolor †

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-04-14]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26446
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1117)

† I've tested xvid/x264 encoding and SSE ac3 decoder, they are working for me †

[machser]

Hi,

I'm a user of OTR/CutAssistant and looking for a codec package to edit divx and h264 tv recordings.
Are the included codecs in mpui-package available for encoding in AviDemux or any other encoding application after installation of the package or are the codecs for viewing purposes only ?
Are the included codecs providing me with a picture of the video in edit-window (Cut Assistant) ?

[vlada]

Avidemux uses ffmpeg for video (de)compression. Installing anything won't help Avidemux to support more formats. But I don't think there is a need to support more formats then Avidemux currently does.

MPUI is a GUI for MPlayer. MPlayer is based on ffmpeg too, so if I exclude the binary codecs/filters, Avidemux supports the same formats as MPUI.

CutAssistant uses AsfBin (ASF/WMV support), Avidemux, MP4Box and VirtualDub. The only application of of these, which can use codecs, is VirtualDub. But VirtualDub can cut video even if doesn't have a codec, it just won't display it during processing. The only codec you need for VirtualDub is ffdshow (it's VfW part, not the DirectShow video decoder).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux uses ffmpeg for video (de)compression.
Wrong! Avidemux uses the "libavcodec" library (which is part of the ffmpeg project) for decoding most audio/video formats, but it doesn't use the "ffmpeg" application itself. No idea why this myth is still floating around. See the "Common myths" article:

http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Common_myths

Installing anything won't help Avidemux to support more formats. But I don't think there is a need to support more formats then Avidemux currently does.

Right, Avidemux uses *only* it's own "built-in" decoders and splitters. H.264 and MPEG-4 (Xvid, DivX, etc.) are already supported (using libavcodec). Nevertheless you can still use Avisynth input (via AVSProxy GUI), in case Avidemux doesn't support your video format. This gives you access to DirectShowSource(), AVISource() and ffmpegSource(). If that cannot open your file, nothing can...

MPUI is a GUI for MPlayer. MPlayer is based on ffmpeg too, so if I exclude the binary codecs/filters, Avidemux supports the same formats as MPUI.

Again: MPlayer doesn't use ffmpeg nor is MPlayer based on ffmpeg. MPlayer only shares a few libraries with the "ffmpeg" project (e.g. libavcodec and libavformat).

[machser]

thank you both for your help! I have a clean windows installation in front of me and I don't want to mess it up again.
I'm wondering what would be THE codec package I had to install when working with Avi and Quicktime ? Is it possible to have all Codecs in one player ? Would MPUI or VLC be that ONE player ?

[KornX]

using mplayer 26450 from smplayer@sourceforge:


Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.


is anybody getting that, too?

Best Regards
KornX

[LoRd_MuldeR]

thank you both for your help! I have a clean windows installation in front of me and I don't want to mess it up again.
I'm wondering what would be THE codec package I had to install when working with Avi and Quicktime ? Is it possible to have all Codecs in one player ? Would MPUI or VLC be that ONE player ?

Again: Neither MPlayer nor Avidemux use any "Codecs", they work with their own "built-in" decoders/splitters only!
The "Binary Codecs Package" for MPlayer is a collection of third-party DLL's MPlayer needs to playback certain proprietary formats.
But those are not DirectShow Filtersn or VfW Codecs! It's not related to any of those crappy "Codec Packs" floating around on the net!
My installer will extract the "Codec" DLL's to MPlayer's "codecs" folder and that's it. They are not registered system-wide or anything.
No other application, excpet MPlayer, will even notice that this has just happened...

MPUI is not a Player, it's a front-end to MPlayer. The same applies to SMPlayer.
VLC is a stand-alone application, which uses it's own decoders/splitters, just like MPlayer does, but 100% independent from MPlayer.
MPlayer and VLC don't share any DLLs...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

using mplayer 26450 from smplayer@sourceforge:


Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.


is anybody getting that, too?

Best Regards
KornX

There was a SSE related crash fixed recently. But it was in the AC-3 audio decoder :confused:

Could you try latest build from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248631&release_id=592082

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

[2008-04-26]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1188)
* Installer updates

[anonova]

Is there a deband/gradfun2db equivalent in mplayer?

[EpheMeroN]

MPlayer for Windows has been updated :)

Does this new package run correctly on Windows Vista? When I got this laptop w/ Vista back in January the MPlayer package switched my desktop theme to "Basic" mode because of some issues w/ the default "Aero" theme.

[rvm]

If you use gl or gl2 instead of directx then Aero isn't disabled.

The problems with nvidia cards when using gl/gl2 fortunately have been fixed.

[EpheMeroN]

If you use gl or gl2 instead of directx then Aero isn't disabled.

The problems with nvidia cards when using gl/gl2 fortunately have been fixed.

"Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family" is the onboard gfx my HP dv3500t laptop has. Do you know if this supports gl / gl2?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-05-08 :)

[2008-05-08]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1227)
* NSIS updated to Version 2.37
* Qt Runtime Libraries updated to Version 4.4.0

[Hard Core Rikki]

Any improvements to expect from QT 4.4 ? ;p
PS: thanks for the update. Definitely my fave media player (along with Gabest's wonderful MPC, needless to mention ;p)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Any improvements to expect from QT 4.4 ? ;p
None that I'm aware of, but it's recommended to use the latest runtime libs anyway (bugfixes, optimizations, etc).

Unfortunately there is a new bug that occures with Qt 4.4.0: The SMPlayer logo in the main window won't be displayed.
That bug has already been fixed by RVM just one day after my last update. That's life...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-05-13 :)

[2008-05-13]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 Final
* Updated UPX from Version 3.02 to 3.03

[johnsonlam]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-05-13 :)

Thanks.

Your binary is really the BEST!

[Clobon]

Hi,

it seems in the (2008-05-13)-build I can't adjust colour or contrast or brightness...
Neither with the keys nor with the equilizer.

I don't know if this is due to the GUI or mplayer...
Or is it just me??? I did everything like I allways do...
I just untick *Use Volume Normalisation* and *File association*.

Please tell me.

Nonetheless thanks for the package.


MfG, Clobon

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Clobon
As discussed earlier, the Equalizer will only work in "Hardware Mode" if your graphics driver does support and allow that!
There might be some setting in your graphics driver configuration that needs to be changed.
I use an ATI card and the setting is located at "Avivo Vidoe > Basic Color > Use application settings" (that options needs to be checked!)

Additionally you can always use the Equalizer in "Software Mode" with all graphics drivers, renderers and settings:
Just enable "General > Video > Use software video equalizer" in SMPlayer's preferences menu...

[Clobon]

Hi,

just installed an older package and it didn't work either...
Must be my screwup. So sorry bothering.

Laters, Clobon

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi,

just installed an older package and it didn't work either...
Must be my screwup. So sorry bothering.

Laters, Clobon

Did you read/follow my anser to your previous post? :confused:

[Clobon]

Hi,
Did you read/follow my anser to your previous post? :confused:

yes, it's always on *Use application settings* (It's a Nvidia btw).
Otherwise the games I play won't let me do the finetuning.

I must have screwed up somewhere. Just the tiny little checkbox
you end up searching for all day long... as always... I kinda wished
it's a bug so I wouldn't have to search for the cause

To use the equilizer in software mode works of course but it's not
my default.

Thanks and sorry for bothering you. MfG, Clobon

[BrainDedd]

Hi LoRd_MuldeR ...
I don't suppose you've ever gotten this error while building mplayer?
make: *** No rule to make target `libswscale/libswscale.a', needed by `mplayer.exe'. Stop.
It's driving me crazy :-/
Edit: I'm using MSYS and GCC 4.3.0 btw

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I don't build MPlayer myself, I usually take the latest build from here (http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php) or here (http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/mplayer/) :D

The MPlayer mailing list for "users" should be the right place to get help for compilation problems:
https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users

[BrainDedd]

Alright thanks, will look into those links :)

[m99]

Has there been nothing significant news to MPlayer since early february? Celtic Druid hasn't made any new builds since then, at least none that I'm aware of.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Has there been nothing significant news to MPlayer since early february?

Well, if you are interested, the MPlayer Changelog is always here:
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/?view=log

Celtic Druid hasn't made any new builds since then, at least none that I'm aware of.

You can find recent Builds by Gianluigi Tiesi (last updated 2008-04-14) at this location:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

Also CCCP has an "alternative" MPlayer Build (last updated 2008-04-02) at this location:
http://www.cccp-project.net/smf/index.php?topic=811

[smok3]

mpui/smplayer getting more and more popular as it seems, just mplayer@somestuff mirror is spending about 10 gigs per day, some stats for last few days;
----------------------------------------------------
2008-04-27 17178.8755 MB
2008-04-28 14006.0930 MB
2008-04-29 10465.7699 MB
2008-04-30 7917.3526 MB
2008-05-01 8275.8179 MB
2008-05-02 8896.5708 MB
2008-05-03 9958.7649 MB
2008-05-04 10021.2164 MB
2008-05-05 7889.2947 MB
2008-05-06 8095.4616 MB
2008-05-07 6669.3671 MB
2008-05-08 15278.7000 MB
2008-05-09 13162.9854 MB
2008-05-10 11394.7221 MB
2008-05-11 8560.7668 MB
2008-05-12 9426.4939 MB
2008-05-13 12043.5722 MB
2008-05-14 13409.1859 MB
2008-05-15 12718.5328 MB
2008-05-16 9865.4033 MB
2008-05-17 9819.6427 MB

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Here is my personal download counter for the current month:

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2008-05
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0000140 | Avidemux.2008-04-24.Win32.exe
0001058 | Avidemux.2008-05-03.Win32.exe
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0000055 | MakeInstantPlayer.2008-04-17.Sources.zip
0000411 | MakeInstantPlayer.2008-04-17.exe
0000062 | UHARC_GUI.2005-11-24.exe
0000364 | UHARC_GUI.2007-01-19.zip
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Roughly 15.000 downloads of my MPlayer Installer Package so far ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I ported my installer to NSIS UltraModern UI today. I hope this didn't break too much:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-21.Full-Package.zip

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2223/umuirk9.png

Feedback is welcome...

[Reimar]

A little note to everyone using OpenGL: I updated the man-page to recommend

-vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -dr -noslices

since on my PCs (one Athlon X2 3800+ with a GeForce 7600 GS and a Athlon 800 with a GeForce 3) this gives the fastest playback, even faster than overlay (though for the GeForce 3 I need to use yuv=1).
I only tested on Linux though, so I'd be happy to hear how it works for you.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The commandline you posted doesn't work here, because neither "force-pbo" nor "ati-hack" sub-options are recognized :confused:

But I can use the following line:
-vo gl:yuv=2 -dr -noslices

Performance is still MUCH worse than DirectX/Overlay, making it unusable for any HD content.
This is under WindowsXP using an ATI Radeon 1950XT with latest Catalyst...

[Reimar]

The commandline you posted doesn't work here, because neither "force-pbo" nor "ati-hack" sub-options are recognized :confused:


Sorry, I forgot to say: needs at least MPlayer SVN r26713. Seems like that version is not yet available precompiled...
And I also forgot to say, according to the person who proposed that approach first it makes a huge difference for ATI cards (the implementation is quite a bit different from the original proposal though).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sorry, I forgot to say: needs at least MPlayer SVN r26713. Seems like that version is not yet available precompiled...
And I also forgot to say, according to the person who proposed that approach first it makes a huge difference for ATI cards (the implementation is quite a bit different from the original proposal though).

I see. Can't wait to test it. One question though:
Is the proposed commandline intended to work with all (or at least most) hardware configurations?
Or in other words: Is it safe to set that as default values in my installer?

[Reimar]

One question though:
Is the proposed commandline intended to work with all (or at least most) hardware configurations?
Or in other words: Is it safe to set that as default values in my installer?

First of all, you will probably have to leave the -dr out, for MPEG1/2 video it does not work together with ati-hack (which is required for all ATI users at least currently, maybe ATI/AMD will fix it).
Apart from that, it should work with all OpenGL 2.0-compatible hardware (GeForce 4 and higher for NVidia, whatever ATI produced around the same time - though it will probably need more recent drivers than those these cards originally shipped with). I have no idea about Intel cards though - they are not OpenGL 2.0 officially but at least the hardware should be able to do everything that is needed for this command-line, the question is just if it's implemented in the drivers...

[Yong]

mplayer r26853 with mencoder, but i didnt enable runtime cpu detection, so im not sure if its work on intel cpu :(
http://y0ngc6.googlepages.com/Mplayer-r26853.7z

btw ive just tested -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -dr -noslices
output is completely garbled, remove -dr -noslice doesnt help either.
im using catalyst 8.4 :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks Yong. Your build works okay on my Core2 Quad, but won't work with SMPlayer:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r26853-4.2.1-sjlj (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
Unknown option on the command line: -subfont-autoscale
Error parsing option on the command line: -subfont-autoscale

It works with MPUI though and performance with Reimar's parameters looks really good, yes :)

[Reimar]

btw ive just tested -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -dr -noslices
output is completely garbled, remove -dr -noslice doesnt help either.
im using catalyst 8.4 :p

If it's completely garbled, it is almost certainly the problem that ati-hack is supposed to help against. You could try if it works when you scale the video to e.g. 256x256 (-vf scale=256:256), but since it looks very much like another driver bug to me, in the worst case it might not be fixable at all by me.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Here is a new Test release of my installer. Now it's fully translated for ENGLISH and GERMAN language:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-22.Full-Package.zip

If you want to contribute another translation, please contact me via PM. Thank you :)


// EDIT

Now the "Tweaks" page has been translated too:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-22.Full-Package.Updated.zip


// EDIT²

And some more fixes and improvements:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-23.Full-Package.zip

[Yong]

If it's completely garbled, it is almost certainly the problem that ati-hack is supposed to help against. You could try if it works when you scale the video to e.g. 256x256 (-vf scale=256:256), but since it looks very much like another driver bug to me, in the worst case it might not be fixable at all by me.

-vf scale 256:256 does help, but the color still display incorrectly, ive tried both xp and vista with catalyst 8.5,
currectly its only work with yuv=0, yuv=2 or 4 give the same garbled output.

Does force pbo only work with yuv=2?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've uploaded a new test build of my installer, incorporating the latest UltraModern UI update:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-25.Full-Package.zip

Now the language dialog will remember your selection and it will appear every time you run the installer.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Question: Does MPlayer use any method of "queuing" frames, like ffdshow and all those DirectShow renderers do ???

If yes, how to display the number queued frames? If not, are there any plans to implement it?

[Warpman]

is it possible to compile mplayer with fontconfig support?

Also it not possible to disassociate filetypes in smplayer.. or is that just me?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

is it possible to compile mplayer with fontconfig support?
I think RVM has a build with fontconfig enabeld...

Also it not possible to disassociate filetypes in smplayer.. or is that just me?
If you use my installer, please try Start > Programs > MPlayer for Windows > Tools > Set File Associations

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-05-26 :)

[2008-05-26]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1293)
* Ported the installer to NSIS UltraModern UI

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Sorry, I forgot to say: needs at least MPlayer SVN r26713. Seems like that version is not yet available precompiled...
New Win32 builds including the latest OpenGL fixes plus "-volume" patch available now:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

I will update my installer tomorrow. Why does this come a few hours after my recent update :rolleyes:
But I have to say: I love the new OpenGL renderer :D

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-05-27 :)

[2008-05-27]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26874
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.0 (SVN-r1299)
* Ported the installer to NSIS UltraModern UI

This time with "fresh" MPlayer builds, including the latest OpenGL improvements :cool:
Recommended renderer is now "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack" for all users with OpenGL 2.0 capable hardware.
You can enable this by selecting "Use OpenGL renderer" during setup.

Furthermore the new MPlayer builds finally come with the "-volume" patch included.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I found a possible bug in MPlayer:

I got an AVI file (captured with a digicam) that makes MPlayer crash immediately.
The video format is MJPEG. Audio is not present, although MPlayer seems to detect an "ADPCM" stream.
Sample file is here: crash_sample.7z (http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/crash_sample.7z)

This is what MPlayer puts out, reproduced with several builds from various sources:
C:\Downloads\MPlayer-r26853>mplayer -sound c:\S3000002.AVI
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26853-4.2.1-sjlj (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

Playing c:\S3000002.AVI.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [MJPG] 320x240 24bpp 22.824 fps 1623.9 kbps (198.2 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [imaadpcm] IMA ADPCM audio decoder


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.


It seems to file is strange in some way. This is what AVInaptic says:

[ About file ]

Name: S3000002.AVI
Date: 27/05/2008 13:00:49
Size: 6,786,612 bytes (6.472 MB)

[ Generic infos ]

L'AVI è corrotto: dichiara 1 streams, ma ne vengono trovati 2

Nevertheless this file seems to play 100% fine in VLC Player as well as with MPC+ffdshow.
Also I think it played okay with an older revision of MPlayer a while ago...


[EDIT]

Yes, using an old build of MPlayer (r25803) the file plays 100% fine:

C:\Downloads\oldplayer>mplayer c:\S3000002.AVI
MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r25803-4.2.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Step
ping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing c:\S3000002.AVI.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [MJPG] 320x240 24bpp 22.824 fps 1623.9 kbps (198.2 kbyte/s)
SUB: Could not determine file format
Cannot load subtitles: c:\S3000002.txt
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [directx] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
V: 33.3 761/761 0% 1% 0.0% 0 0

Exiting... (End of file)

[carnage_pl]

Hi. with the newest build every video crashes mplayer
log :
C:/Program Files/MPlayer for Windows/MPlayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -msglevel demux=6 -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -wid 132522 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 -af volnorm=2 -sws 9 -noslices D:\_BAKAW~1.264\_BB22C~1.MKV

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r26874-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Setting process priority: abovenormal

Playing D:\_BAKAW~1.264\_BB22C~1.MKV.
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
Checking for NuppelVideo
Checking for REAL
Checking for SMJPEG
[mkv] Found the head...
[mkv] + a segment...
[mkv] /---- [ parsing seek head ] ---------
[mkv] /---- [ parsing seek head ] ---------
[mkv] \---- [ parsing seek head ] ---------
[mkv] /---- [ parsing cues ] -----------
[mkv] \---- [ parsing cues ] -----------
[mkv] \---- [ parsing seek head ] ---------
[mkv] |+ segment information...
[mkv] | + timecode scale: 1000000
[mkv] | + duration: 92.374s
[mkv] |+ segment tracks...
[mkv] | + a track...
[mkv] | + Track number: 1
[mkv] | + Track type: Video
[mkv] | + Default flag: 1
[mkv] | + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
[mkv] | + CodecPrivate, length 41
[mkv] | + Default duration: 41.708ms ( = 23.976 fps)
[mkv] | + Language: jpn
[mkv] | + Name: H.264 R2J DVD
[mkv] | + Video track
[mkv] | + Pixel width: 848
[mkv] | + Pixel height: 480
[mkv] | + Display width: 853
[mkv] | + Display height: 480
[mkv] | + a track...
[mkv] | + Track number: 2
[mkv] | + Track type: Audio
[mkv] | + Default flag: 1
[mkv] | + Codec ID: A_AAC
[mkv] | + CodecPrivate, length 7
[mkv] | + Default duration: 42.667ms ( = 23.438 fps)
[mkv] | + Language: jpn
[mkv] | + Name: AAC Stereo
[mkv] | + Audio track
[mkv] | + Sampling frequency: 24000.000000
[mkv] | + Channels: 2
[mkv] | + a track...
[mkv] | + Track number: 3
[mkv] | + Track type: Subtitle
[mkv] | + Default flag: 1
[mkv] | + Codec ID: S_TEXT/ASS
[mkv] | + CodecPrivate, length 1024
[mkv] | + Language: eng
[mkv] | + Name: Styled Subtitles (GG)
[mkv] |+ found cluster, headers are parsed completely :)
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[mkv] Aspect: 1.777083
ID_VID_0_NAME=H.264 R2J DVD
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "H.264 R2J DVD", -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_NAME=AAC Stereo
ID_AID_0_LANG=jpn
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC) "AAC Stereo", -aid 0, -alang jpn
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_NAME=Styled Subtitles (GG)
ID_SID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS) "Styled Subtitles (GG)", -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 848x480 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=D:\_BAKAW~1.264\_BB22C~1.MKV
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=848
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7771
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=24000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=92.37
ID_SEEKABLE=1
[gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 848 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7771
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 8
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 8
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 7 -> 6
[swscaler @ 0pe797fc]Lanczos scaler, from yuv420p to rgb24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0pe797fc]using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0pe797fc]using 8-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0pe797fc]using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 0pe797fc]848x480 -> 854x480
VO: [gl] 848x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 [zoom]


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

My graphic card ATI Radeon HD2300 and video output : gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack
it happens even with avi files with xvid and mp3

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@carnage_pl

1. Does your CPU support all the extensions? (MMX, MMX2, SSE and SSE2)
2. What happens if you use "gl" or "directx" renderer?

[carnage_pl]

CPU Z says yes (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3)
with directx everything is ok

[LoRd_MuldeR]

CPU Z says yes (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3)
with directx everything is ok

And what happens with "gl" renderer only, without "force-pbo" or "ati-hack" ???

[carnage_pl]

with gl only works but very slowly. Is cause of that may be old drivers for mobile version of my graphic card?

edit: ok I know what casues that. Old drivers. I used 8.5 modded and everything works. But I won't use it because it breaks DXVA.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

with gl only works but very slowly.

That's what "force-pbo" is supposed to fix. It seems "ati-hack" is also required for some ATI cards.

Is cause of that may be old drivers for mobile version of my graphic card?

Always try latest drivers first...

[carnage_pl]

Always try latest drivers first...
But i use the latest drivers but for mobile verson the latest was a long time ago...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

But i use the latest drivers but for mobile verson the latest was a long time ago...

ATI's driver support really sucks :rolleyes:

At least the latest Catalyst drivers seem to work more or less okay, but still special workarounds are needed ("ati-hack").
In your case I can only recommend to either use the modded drivers or to stick with DirectX renderer ....


[EDIT]

From what I see on the AMD/ATI page, there is "ATI Catalyst™ 8.5" as well as "ATI Catalyst™ Mobility 8.5" available.
So using the latest (Mobility) Catalyst driver package should support your "mobile" card.

[petran79]

I have another problem with the new installer.
While in the Complete installation it installs flawlessly, when I select custom installation, to uncheck the "set file assosiations" box and "Start Menu folders", the installer crashes the moment the extraction begins

"The instruction at "0x7c911e58" referenced memory at "0x0000000". the memory could not be read. " message appears

Both in the Full and Light package. Another time it gave a ntdll.dll error and only once the Custom installation in the light package worked correctly.

Has to do with the AMD Athlon Processor?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have another problem with the new installer.
While in the Complete installation it installs flawlessly, when I select custom installation, to uncheck the "set file assosiations" box and "Start Menu folders", the installer crashes the moment the extraction begins

You mean you check all section on the components page, except for "Set File Associations" ???
And you also select "Do not create shortcuts" on the startmenu page ???

Seems to work 100% fine here. And no, this should no happen. With no type of CPU.
If the installer crashes like that, this would indicate a bug in NSIS and/or UMUI and there's not much I can do :o

Can you give some more system info please?
And did you check the stability of your machine with Prim95 and/or Memtest86+ ???

[carnage_pl]

From what I see on the AMD/ATI page, there is "ATI Catalyst™ 8.5" as well as "ATI Catalyst™ Mobility 8.5" available.
So using the latest (Mobility) Catalyst driver package should support your "mobile" card.

saddly only for XP. I have vista home 32 bit

[LoRd_MuldeR]

saddly only for XP. I have vista home 32 bit

And another reason for not going Vista :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Here is a new test release:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-30.Full-Package.zip

This is the first release with automated CPU detection in the installer code.
So please tell me: What is your CPU (use CPU-Z to get the info) and what build does the installer recommend.

Some more info in this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=41

[Eragon4ever]

Works here. I have a Core 2 and it selects the P4 build.

Also a small question: Does setting file associations still override old associations? If yes, could you please deselect it by default? A long time ago it set all types to open with mplayer and I had to set them back. Since then I always deselect this option but I fear to forget it one time.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Also a small question: Does setting file associations still override old associations? If yes, could you please deselect it by default? A long time ago it set all types to open with mplayer and I had to set them back. Since then I always deselect this option but I fear to forget it one time.

Well, it will associate all Audio, Video and Playlist files with MPUI/SMPlayer, but it makes backup for every extension.
On uninstall or when you run the SetFileAssoc tool again, all associations are restored to the previous state.

Of course I can't guarantee anything! It's tested here on WinXP Pro x64 and it seemed to work. That's all I can say.
Also I'm not sure how well it works together with SMPlayer's internal "File Type" manager....

BTW: There is no way to set new file associations without "overwriting" the old ones ;)

[Eragon4ever]

Isn't it possible to only set associations for types which don't have any already? I thought you might do this.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Isn't it possible to only set associations for types which don't have any already? I thought you might do this.
That would be possible indeed. But most media files will already be associated with WMPlayer, Winamp or alike.
I think most people that use MPlayer as their primary player want to open all media files in MPlayer, not only previously unassociated files.
Maybe I will add your suggestion as on option, but that would make my FileAssoc code even more ugly :p

BTW: You can already keep that option disabled during install and use SMPlayer's preferences to associate only specific file types...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Latest MPlayer build (SVN-r26924) crashes on attempt to play a web-stream :(
http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayercrashpf5.png

Appears to be a cache related problem, as "-nocache" prevents the crash...


[EDIT]

New test release, including latest MPlayer build:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-30.Full-Package.Updated.zip

[rvm]

Latest MPlayer build (SVN-r26924) crashes on attempt to play a web-stream :(
http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayercrashpf5.png

Appears to be a cache related problem, as "-nocache" prevents the crash...

It has been fixed in r26929.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

It has been fixed in r26929.

:thanks: for the info.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The installer has been fixed to work properly in "silent" mode again:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/beta/MPUI.2008-05-31.Full-Package.zip

Use the "/S" option to run silent and use the "/NOPACK" option to skip packing the EXE files during install. Can be combined.

[agressiv]

Tried this package for the first time. Currently I am a ZoomPlayer user.

With the installer under Vista, you won't get any buttons visible (Back/Next/Cancel etc) Tried both classic mode (my UI looks like Windows 2000) as well as Aero mode. Tried multiple Vista machines as well. On XP it is fine.

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7463/mplayer1ml1.png

In addition, I want to use CoreCodec for playing H.264 streams. I can select it as a choice, but it never renders video. I have it selected with ZoomPlayer and it works no problem. Is there some guide to setting this up? In addition, how do I retain the setting? It always reverts back to the libavcodec - FFMpeg H264. Couldn't find anything in the INI files, and checked out the mplayer documentation (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/codec-importing.html)

Didn't see anything that stood out other than recompiling mplayer.exe.

Thanks!

agressiv

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer only uses it's own "built-in" decoders. It does not use DirectShow, so it's doesn't use any DirectShow filters (like CoreAVC Decoder) for decoding.
I know that there are patches to modify MPlayer to use CoreAVC Decoder, but the preferred way to use CoreAVC Decoder would be a DirectShow-based player.
One of MPlayer's policies is: Only use "proprietary" decoders if no "free" implementation is available yet...

If the buttons are missing, this is either a bug in NSIS or UMUI. There's nothing I can do to fix it, because I'm not a NSIS dev :(

[agressiv]

Ahh thanks for the info. Makes sense about the directshow bit, and I can just "use the force" on the buttons which works fine :)

agressiv

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-06-01 :)

[2006-06-01]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26924
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1321)
* Added CPU detection code to the installer

[Marbrye]

After using the subject file to update my MPlayer folder I note that some of the files were replaced by files having the same date but different (smaller) sizes. Is this correct? or should I be concerned.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

After using the subject file to update my MPlayer folder I note that some of the files were replaced by files having the same date but different (smaller) sizes. Is this correct? or should I be concerned.
Not all files change with every update. Updating only the "changed" files would save some bandwidth, indeed.
But currently the Autoupdater will simply download the latest installer package.
So all files will be reinstalled. The "changed" files are replaced with new versions, the "unchanged" files are overwritten with same version.

BTW: Files might have become a bit smaller, because I decided to let UPX run in a better/slower mode...

[Clobon]

Hi^^

During the installation there's a minor misspelling
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/clobon/MPinst.png

I shall choose a langage^^

It's just cosmetic... And yeah this is also in the latest package.
Or maybe this text can't be edited???

But now the most important thing: thanks for your good work^^

HF, Clobon

PS: Why doesn't this forum use spoiler tags? It's just nice for hiding pics

[LoRd_MuldeR]

This is not a text I have written, it's a standard page and the text comes from the NSIS/UMUI language files ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows (2008-06-14) :)

[2006-06-14]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1390)
* Installer updates

[johnsonlam]

MPlayer for Windows (2008-06-14) :)

Thanks for your work.

Bug report:

When I choose "custom" install, the setup process will crash.
Also SMPlayer fail to remove association of filetype.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

When I choose "custom" install, the setup process will crash.

This definitely doesn't happen here. Maybe a bug in NSIS or UMUI ???

Also SMPlayer fail to remove association of filetype.

Maybe a SMPlayer problem or an incompatibility to my own FileAssoc code...


BTW: If you attach images, I cannot see them (unless a mod approves your attachment). If you use Imageshack (http://imageshack.us/) everybody can see them immediately ;)