MPlayer for Windows (2019-10-15)

[rvm]

Can you just confirm the bug in smplayer 0.63 where both -slices and -noslices were sent together?

Version 0.6.3 is very old, I don't remember about such problem.

But if you have the option to include the subtitles on the screenshots enabled and SSA/ASS is not enabled, then -noslices is used even if you have slices enabled.

[avih]

Version 0.6.3 is very old, I don't remember about such problem.

But if you have the option to include the subtitles on the screenshots enabled and SSA/ASS is not enabled, then -noslices is used even if you have slices enabled.
I read the tooltip on the slices checkbox on smplayer and the mplayer man entry for -noslices but failed to see the relation to subtitles...

Regardless, I used processExplorer to check the command line arguments that smplayer used when invoking mplayer, it had both -slices and -noslices as part of the arguments.

Never mind though, smplayer 0.67 doesn't seem to exhibit this issue. Just thought you remembered such bug, but if you don't, it doesn't matter much anyway.

Cheers again for the excellent smplayer and also for mulder's packaging :)

[rvm]

I read the tooltip on the slices checkbox on smplayer and the mplayer man entry for -noslices but failed to see the relation to subtitles...

For some reason (bug?), under those circumstances (SSA/ASS lib disabled, subtitles on screenshots enabled, -slices), ass subtitles don't appear on screen. So in that case -noslices is used to avoid it.

Regardless, I used processExplorer to check the command line arguments that smplayer used when invoking mplayer, it had both -slices and -noslices as part of the arguments.

Never mind though, smplayer 0.67 doesn't seem to exhibit this issue. Just thought you remembered such bug, but if you don't, it doesn't matter much anyway.

I've been revising the code of 0.6.3 and I think that part of the code (passing -slices / -noslices to mplayer) is the same as 0.6.7, no changes. So if there was a bug in 0.6.3 probably it's still in 0.6.7. Anyway I see unlikely that both options can be passed at the time to mplayer.

[avih]

For some reason (bug?), under those circumstances (SSA/ASS lib disabled, subtitles on screenshots enabled, -slices), ass subtitles don't appear on screen. So in that case -noslices is used to avoid it.

Yes, I can see now that if ASS is enabled and slices is enabled on gl(fast) then the playback is jerky, but if I enable subtitles on screenshots, then the playback becomes smooth, and the cli args have only -noslices (0.67)



I've been revising the code of 0.6.3 and I think that part of the code (passing -slices / -noslices to mplayer) is the same as 0.6.7, no changes. So if there was a bug in 0.6.3 probably it's still in 0.6.7. Anyway I see unlikely that both options can be passed at the time to mplayer.
My procedure was simple. I installed mulder's package from 2008-10-15 (includes smplayer 0.63) and apparently had slices+subs on screenshots and gl(fast). I clearly remember that it had both -slices and -noslices literals as part of the cli args. I even saved the cli args to a file for comparison but later deleted the file because I thought it was a bug in 0.63 which was fixed in 0.67. It would take me a long time to reinstall the old package due to the compulsory upx and my slow computer, but if you think it's worth it and you're unable to reproduce it yourself, I'll do it and send you a complete args and configuration.


BTW, I remember that while changing various configurations, the subtitles appeared in native resolution and not in video resolution (i.e. video is resized to full screen but the subtitles are just rendered using larger font and therefore sharp at full resolution, and not resized along with the video. In this native res I also had to enable double buffering or else the subs will slightly flicker), but now I don't seem to be able to reproduce it, and the subtitles are less sharp. Do you know which option will return it to native resolution?

[edit]
ahh.. I found the native res subs.. the include subs in screenshots causes the subs to display in video resolution. Disabling it will cause the subs to display in native resolution. Freetype enable/disable might have something to do with that too (I think disabled -> video res).

[smok3]

The solution for clean uninstall would be (drums): no installer! (just zip/7z the whole thing and thats it) + improves portability. what do you say?

[fxtech]

Sherpya have just updated the patch list , may be a new build is coming ! , hope it is the MT branch

http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

Patches]

* 00_flavor.diff [3 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* 01_center_ovl.diff [1 KiB] - May 19, 2008
* 02_color_console_win32.diff [2 KiB] - Apr 13, 2008
* 99_coreavc.diff [740 bytes] - Mar 15, 2009
* 99_matrixview.diff [57 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* 99_vofw4k.diff [390 bytes] - Feb 04, 2009
* sm_ass_mencoder_embedfonts.diff [15 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* sm_runtime_eq.diff [3 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_console_title.diff [829 bytes] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_ctrl_keys.diff [2 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_ctypes.diff [11 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_d3d9_delayload.diff [2 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_dirac_nopkgconf.diff [1 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_dvdnav_win32.diff [2 KiB] - Jan 14, 2009
* xx_fc-list.diff [1 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_fontconfig_check.diff [545 bytes] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_fontconfig_noconf_nocrash.diff [1 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_nomute_atexit.diff [550 bytes] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_pthread_static.diff [2 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009
* xx_reducespam.diff [1 KiB] - Mar 15, 2009

[Reimar]

Yes, I can see now that if ASS is enabled and slices is enabled on gl(fast) then the playback is jerky, but if I enable subtitles on screenshots, then the playback becomes smooth, and the cli args have only -noslices (0.67)


Sorry, my fault, I never tested the combination of -vo gl:yuv=2 -dr -slices (and that is the only one causing the issue).
Fixed in MPlayer SVN r28974

[LoRd_MuldeR]

hope it is the MT branch

I wouldn't be too optimistic :D

[machinesmith]

Hi!
I'm not sure where else to post this since the support for mplayer is, overwhelming, to say the least! However you seem to know what you're talking about and willing to help too so heres the (rather sad) deal:

First my system specs:

AMD K6II ~500Mhz
64MB RAM
Built-in CMI8738 sound
Built-in ArtX VGA display ~8MB shared(no I haven't heard of it either)
Win98 SE
Broken 52x CDROM drive
15GB HDD
No I cannot "seriously need to upgrade" this system (I wish I could, but I can't)

Whenever I try to run mplayer for win32 (just the command line software, without frontends) I get a nice dialog box telling me that `This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down' (because apart from crashing it must've been running a drug ring or whatnot).

I've tried different versions with different results (all were typed in at the command prompt):

Mplayer Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (bundled with your installer): `illegal' crash
Mplayer -rtm-svn-27081: `illegal' crash
MPlayer SVN-r26925 (special version compiled for DOS only): runs once of its own choice after which it will show corrupted graphics if run again (this version usually shows the video and rarely plays the audio)
Mplayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3: plays audio only and displays a few repeating error messages ([mpeg4 @ 0097EF40]header damaged:
and `error while decoding frame'). Also I don't know where the hell I got this version from but I DO know that its old
Mplayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.4: again plays audio only and displays repeating error messages too (`unsupported video codec' and `error while decoding frame'). Also very old!

Now, being a born again 98 user I know that illegal operations are part of the package, but I just don't know which is the best `mplayer.exe' out there for me!

I do know this, judging by the performance of video (no sound) from the DOS version mplayer runs super fast (better than Windows media player 6.4, Media player classic and kb media player) and your installer has to be one of the most detailed installers in history! (how many installers ask you what your CPU type is and then makes recommendations? How many go as far as to compress exe and dll files to make them smaller? None! So I doff my hat to you sir!)

Heres the file I tested these with (took me ages to download - friggin dial up): http://xbox360movies.ign.com/xbox360/video/article/960/960177/sf4_spc_localization1_intro_030609_flvlowwide.flv
(if nothing else give it a watch for a good laugh...or groan)


Anyway let me know your thoughts on this one! Thanks!

[fxtech]

i suggest you to switch to a linux distribution something like sabayon s4

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Machinesmith, if even the RTM build does crash on your CPU with "illegal instruction" exception, it's time to get new hardware ...

[rvm]

Hi!
I'm not sure where else to post this since the support for mplayer is, overwhelming, to say the least! However you seem to know what you're talking about and willing to help too so heres the (rather sad) deal:

First my system specs:

AMD K6II ~500Mhz
64MB RAM
Built-in CMI8738 sound
Built-in ArtX VGA display ~8MB shared(no I haven't heard of it either)
Win98 SE
Broken 52x CDROM drive
15GB HDD
No I cannot "seriously need to upgrade" this system (I wish I could, but I can't)

Whenever I try to run mplayer for win32 (just the command line software, without frontends) I get a nice dialog box telling me that `This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down' (because apart from crashing it must've been running a drug ring or whatnot).

I think a mplayer built with cygwin worked ok with Win98. You can try this one:
mplayer-r27667-cygwin.7z (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/mplayer-r27667-cygwin.7z)

[avih]

machinesmith, I'd second the suggestion to try a light linux distro, or even a LiveCD just for video. The broken CDROM would be an issue, and I'm not sure your system would be able to boot off a USB flash drive, but I think there are linux systems that can boot from a linux image on windows HD/USB flash drive. Ahh I found one, and it's even specially tailored for your task and relatively small in size, GeeXboX (http://geexbox.org/en/downloads.html).

Good luck..

[fxtech]

here the list almost complete

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html



CD Based Distributions

* eMoviX, MoviX, MoviX2
Slackware Linux based bootable CD distributions for playing movies
* Womp
Linux based bootable CD distribution for playing movies
* GeeXboX
very small bootable CD to play movies and music
* DirectPresenter
bootdisk for fullscreen presentations featuring MPlayer
* Cool Linux CD
Red Hat based bootable live CD containing MPlayer
* LitriX
Brazilian Slax/Slackware based bootable live CD containing MPlayer
* DeadCD
Debian-based minimalistic Linux live CD with MPlayer
* Limp
Linux Multimedia Player, tiny multimedia distribution with MPlayer on it
* Linux Console
LinuxConsole is a modular live CD distro containing MPlayer
* Slax
Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux live CD with MPlayer.
* SliTaz
SliTaz is a micro French/English live CD containing MPlayer.
* xPUD
small and fast Linux live USB distribution containing MPlayer
* Sabayon Pod
Sabayon Linux live CD distro containing MPlayer

[Reimar]

Mplayer Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (bundled with your installer): `illegal' crash

Now, being a born again 98 user I know that illegal operations are part of the package, but I just don't know which is the best `mplayer.exe' out there for me!


This one:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mplayer-win32/MPlayer-rtm-svn-28311.7z
works just fine for me with Win98SE (with the exception of -vo direct3d), original Athlon 800 MHz (MMX, MMXEXT, 3DNOW, 3DNOW2) and GeForce 3.
I would recommend removing fontconfig=yes from the configuration though, fontconfig tries to create its cache in %USERPROFILE%, which means on Win98 you will have it messing its files all over the place and you will have a huge startup delay all the time.

[fxtech]

i think that the smplayer ini use false or true and not no or yes

[sba]

Hello, I have two questions:

Does anyone know how I can turn off Mplayers's automatic update box, which appears everytime I boot my Windows computer? I looked, but couldn't find an "updates" option.

The second question is sort of off-topic. After having loaded a music video to my computer (in .flv format), I'm wondering how to extract the audio and place it in itunes, or even just have it as a wav file on the computer. I use a pre-video version of itunes, 4.7

Thanks....and special thanks to Mulder for putting together such a nice package.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Does anyone know how I can turn off Mplayers's automatic update box, which appears everytime I boot my Windows computer? I looked, but couldn't find an "updates" option.

You could have disabled it during install. Now the only option is uninstall -or- manually remove it from the registry.

I recommend Sysinternal's "Autoruns" tool for that purpose, have a look at the "Logon" tab:
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Anyway, MPlayer for Windows definitely should NOT run the update reminder at every reboot :eek:
If no update is found, you will be reminded to check for updates in 14 days. Are you sure it happens at every system startup?

The second question is sort of off-topic. After having loaded a music video to my computer (in .flv format), I'm wondering how to extract the audio and place it in itunes, or even just have it as a wav file on the computer. I use a pre-video version of itunes, 4.7

Avidemux may be your friend for this purpose:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126164

Open the FLV file, set "Audio" to "Copy" (should be the default anyway) and finally goto "Audio" -> "Save".

[machinesmith]

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the input! I wanted to first try out all the alternatives you guys offered before posting again (with the hope that the next time an ancient Win98 user needs to play videos on an underpowered machine he or she will type in something like "fastest media player for old computer / Win98" and this thread would pop up with a (if not THE) solution.)

Unfortunatly my bandwidht is limited to 1GB a month and having recklessly downloaded various Mplayer's before asking for help has left me with a few precious MB's to spare. so until next month rolls around here's what I do know:

Reimar - I tried the build you provided, but it ended with yet another `Illegal operation' crash (yes I did remove the `fontconfig' line too. Thanks for the recommend though!

rvm - I would've tried your suggestion had it not been for my download cap, will give it a shot though thanks!

avih - Bloody Hell! Now THATS what I call an eye opener mate! I didn't think a mini media center would be tailored for weaker systems! To be honest GeeXbox is what I'm actually waiting on the bandwidth for.

Just so you know, I'm a freelance training processes instructor and I needed to document the information I've added to the training videos. The video are in the `.flv' format and luckily I'm able to hear the audio portions which are detailed enough which means I'll be able to get the documents out in time. This also means that by the time I'll be able to try out the variants you guys mentioned the immediate need for Mplayer on Windows 98 would've passed.

But I dont want to be left unarmed when confronted with this situation again - so heres to next month, GeeXbox, and to ALL of YOU for being there to help out!

[Reimar]

Reimar - I tried the build you provided, but it ended with yet another `Illegal operation' crash (yes I did remove the `fontconfig' line too. Thanks for the recommend though!


Try with "-vo directx" or "-vo gl", maybe it improves something. Or -nosound or -novideo for testing.
I'd strongly recommend to use a memtest (e.g. http://www.memtest86.com/), let it run at least for several hours.
I too had all kinds of mysterious failures and had to find out that over the years, out of the 5 SDRAM modules I have 4 are no longer working correctly.
Now that I am only using the single working one things are ok again...

[sba]

LM,

Autoruns disabled the autoupdate feature. What a nice little tool ! Thank you.

As for extracting audio files from flv videos using Avidemux, I ran into an "audio decoder not present" dialog box. When I have time I'll look into this further and post over in the Avidemux forum.

Thanks again

[LoRd_MuldeR]

As for extracting audio files from flv videos using Avidemux, I ran into an "audio decoder not present" dialog box. When I have time I'll look into this further and post over in the Avidemux forum.

What application gave that error message? And when you did what?

[sba]

Using Avidemux 2.4.4, I immediately get a "No audio decoder found for this file" when opening my flv files (which had been saved from YouTube). The files play fine with MPlayer.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Using Avidemux 2.4.4, I immediately get a "No audio decoder found for this file" when opening my flv files (which had been saved from YouTube). The files play fine with MPlayer.

So what is the audio format? In my experience FLV files from YouTube use MP3 as audio format. And Avidemux does support that just fine...

[DarkZell666]

So what is the audio format? In my experience FLV files from YouTube use MP3 as audio format. And Avidemux does support that just fine...

Youtube also broadcasts AAC+h.264 in MP4 (when in HQ mode), but that is also supposed to be supported :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Youtube also broadcasts AAC+h.264 in MP4 (when in HQ mode), but that is also supposed to be supported :p

Yes, it should. But maybe Avidemux' FLV demuxer isn't prepared for AAC in FLV ??? :confused:

Anyway, this is becoming off-topic. If the OP expects help, he should post the problem in the Avidemux forum and provide a sample...

[Milardo]

Hi, how well does the dvd menus work? Does vcd menus work too? I haven't yet tested the latest version. Also, how is the support for nsv files? I can get them to play but seeking doesn't work.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

See this post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1237412&postcount=274

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2009-04-27 :)

[2009-04-27]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r29238
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.7 (SVN-r2987)
* QT Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.5.1

[nijiko]

What are you doing...
I am using IE8 without compatibility view.
Why your website always says the wrong detecting?
Not welcome any one the access???
That happens with newest Chromium(dev)!!!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What are you doing...
I am using IE8 without compatibility view.
Why your website always says the wrong detecting?
Not welcome any one the access???
That happens with newest Chromium(dev)!!!

IE7 and older are no longer supported. I recommend all IE users to update to IE8 now or to try another browser.

IE8 finally has a less broken rendering engine than its predecessors. But when running in "IE7 compatibility view", it still uses the old borked engine.
Hence IE7 compatibility mode should really only be used for web-sites that depend on the old IE7 behavior. Please disable that mode for my site and everything will be fine.
Also I don't see any reason why Chromium should be effected, unless you modified its User Agent string to let Chromium pretend that it is IE7 ;)
Note that Chromium is one of the browsers that I use to validate my HTML/PHP code, besides Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera and IE8. And I don't see any problems!

If you still think that something is wrong with my browser detection code, please open the following URL in your web-browser and post a screenshot:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/navigator.php

--[EDIT]--

Okay, I just got home and checked it again. It definitely works 100% fine with the latest Chromium build and with IE8:

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3327/chromevalid.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3327/chromevalid.jpg) http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7513/ie8valid.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7513/ie8valid.jpg)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2009-05-10 :)

[2009-05-10]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r29280
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.7 (SVN-r3017)

[lansing]

is it a bug in SMPlayer or is it just me, when I try to choose "select none" in the file association tab, after I click apply, nothing change, many of the file type are still checked.

also is there an option to hide the status bar?

[nijiko]

Ok.
You are not trusting me.
I will show the scr. shot.

I can't get in.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7241/cantgetin.jpg

This setting means not use compat. view.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1849/settingx.jpg

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Unfortunately I can't read that language, so there is absolutely no information for me in these screenshots.

Anyway, I already asked you to post a screenshot of this (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/navigator.php) page in order to get help, but you didn't do that until now.

Without that info I cannot analyze the problem on your side...

[nijiko]

Unfortunately I can't read that language, so there is absolutely no information for me in these screenshots.

Anyway, I already asked you to post a screenshot of this (http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/navigator.php) page in order to get help, but you didn't do that until now.

Without that info I cannot analyze the problem on your side...

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8038/useragent.jpg

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Obviously either you or some software you installed screwed up your "User Agent" string! There are two contradictory MSIE versions specified :rolleyes:

I can't help you with that, but the string "http://bsalsa.com" may be a first hint. And since this is problem of yours is not related to MPlayer for Windows, this shouldn't be discussed in this thread.

You may want to create a separate thread in the "PC Hard & Software" sub-forum or refer to the Micorosft support (or use one of the alternative browsers).

[nijiko]

Last post.
Which I am using is offical IE8 RTW. And without any changes to IE8, such as the Usaer Agent.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Last post.
Which I am using is offical IE8 RTW. And without any changes to IE8, such as the Usaer Agent.

That (http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8038/useragent.jpg) user string undoubtedly is broken: Not only the syntax is abnormal, also the contained information is contradictory!

Unless your browser uses doublethink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink), it can't believe to be "MSIE 8.0" and "MSIE 6.0" at the same time :D

Sending an invalid "User Agent" string like that to the web-server will lead to undesired results for obvious reasons...

How a proper string looks is defined here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537503.aspx

[avivahl]

Last post.
Which I am using is offical IE8 RTW. And without any changes to IE8, such as the Usaer Agent.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/09/the-internet-explorer-8-user-agent-string-updated-edition.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537503.aspx

Read both links and fix your user agent. Some software must have corrupted it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Last post.
Which I am using is offical IE8 RTW. And without any changes to IE8, such as the Usaer Agent.http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/09/the-internet-explorer-8-user-agent-string-updated-edition.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537503.aspx

Read both links and fix your user agent. Some software must have corrupted it.

Anyway, I added a hack to better deal with broken user agent string (hopefully). Now the first occurrence of "MSIE" will be evaluated instead of the last one.

This shouldn't encourage people to use improper user agent strings though !!!

[nijiko]

Well. I fixed the problem now. Sorry for troubling you.
Now we can stop talking that travelling out from this thread.

[Surf]

Hi Mulder,

I probably "broke" something on the second last version and the latest is the same. It won't play anything mpeg-2, vob, ifo....anything from dvd related files...

Sorry for being so vague for I wish I knew what I "broke" and won't even have to ask you. So, any idea what I did or did not "check"...?

TIA

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I probably "broke" something on the second last version and the latest is the same. It won't play anything mpeg-2, vob, ifo....anything from dvd related files...

You didn't configure MPlayer to use more than one thread for decoding. Did you?

[Surf]

Hey thanks for the quick reply!

Come to think of it but not 100% sure, I may have....thinking that I need to tell Mplayer that I have a Q6600? Threads as in cores?

Forgive, me no techno-savvy. Monkey reads monkey does.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hey thanks for the quick reply!

Come to think of it but not 100% sure, I may have....thinking that I need to tell Mplayer that I have a Q6600? Threads as in cores?

Forgive, me no techno-savvy. Monkey reads monkey does.

Set the number of threads to 1, because Sherpya's MPlayer builds don't use ffmpeg-MT yet anyway and because the MPEG-2 decoder seems to be broken with more than one thread currently...

[roozhou]

Set the number of threads to 1, because Sherpya's MPlayer builds don't use ffmpeg-MT and yet anyway and because the MPEG-2 decoder seems to be broken with more than one thread currently...

The simplest way is to use libmpeg2 as default MPEG-1/2 decoder. It is faster and more stable than libavcodec's MPEG12 decoder.

And i don't think any multi-core CPU needs more than one core to decode MPEG1 and MPEG2, even 40 MBps @ 1920x1080.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2009-05-18 :)

[2009-05-18]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r29312
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.7 (SVN-r3042)
* Fix buttons for Windows 7 (and Vista)

[petran79]

In the Lite Installer when I check the UPX option, it requires 4 TB! :scared:

When not, only 34 MB. And I wondered why the next button wasnt clickable in the install menu.....

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/6002/mplayer.jpg[/URL]

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Thanks for reporting that. I will look for a solution...