MPlayer for Windows (2019-10-15)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've just put together a package of "MPlayer for Windows".

The "all-in-one" installer includes everything you'll need in a self-contained download (MPlayer binaries + SMPlayer/MPUI front-end + Codecs).

Thought I can share this, as it might be useful for others too...


Download:
https://github.com/lordmulder/mplayer-setup-win32/releases/latest
https://bitbucket.org/muldersoft/mplayer-for-windows-installer/downloads/
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/bs7delk2qqe16/MPlayer_for_Windows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/muldersoft/files/MPlayer%20for%20Windows/
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/mplayer-win32-installer/documents

Sources:
MPlayer on Win32 (http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php) | MPlayer SVN (svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk) | SMPlayer (http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smplayer/smplayer/trunk/) | Install Script (https://bitbucket.org/muldersoft/mplayer-for-windows-installer/src)


https://i.imgur.com/0zNZAGl.png
http://i.imgur.com/ZV3ghQ4.png
http://i.imgur.com/pevMU4L.png


Warning: I recently got report that some antivirus programs (Kasperski in particular) prevent the installer from working properly!
So even if your antivirus software does not display any alerts, it still may be the reason for the installer to fail.
In that case you'll need to disable your antivirus software before installing, until they (the antivirus team) have fixed the problem.

MPlayer for Windows
Packaged and maintained by LoRd_MuldeR
http://muldersoft.com/

Last Update: 2018-03-03 (Build #136)


1. Package Contents
-------------------

* MPlayer on Win32 by Sherpya, SVN-r38018 (2018-02-25)
* SMPlayer front-end by RVM, v18.2.2 (SVN-r8937)
* MPUI front-end by Martin Fiedler, v1.2-pre3 (Build 38)
* Binary Codecs for MPlayer (2011-01-31)
* Installer created with Unicode NSIS, v2.51



2. Acknowledgment
-----------------

MPlayer was created by The MPlayer Project <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/>.
This package contains software by Ricardo Villalba and Martin J. Fiedler.
Special thanks to Gianluigi Tiesi for the Win32 builds of MPlayer.

MPlayer for Windows is free software. Don't pay to download or use it!
We are NOT affiliated with any third-party sites offering payed downloads.
You may consider donating to the MPlayer Project though.


3. Anti-Virus Warning
---------------------

Occasionally your Antivirus program may mistakenly detect "malware"
(virus, trojan, worm, etc.) in some of the files here. This is called a
"false-positive" and the files are actually innocent/clean. It´s an
error in your specific Antivirus software.

In case you encounter such problems, goto http://www.virustotal.com/
and check the file again with multiple Antivirus engines! And take care
with results like "suspicious" , "generic" or "packed". Those are *not*
real hits, they are just wild speculation.

Apparently Antivirus programs tend to suspect installers/uninstaller
created with NSIS. Furthermore some Antivirus programs blindly suspect
all UPX´d (packed) executables of being malware. Obviously this is a
stupid generalization, so please ignore those warnings!

Last but not least: Always keep in mind that this is OpenSource
software! If you don´t trust the people providing the pre-compiled
binaries, download the source codes and compile them yourself.

DON´T SUBMIT ANY VIRUS/TROJAN REPORTS, UNLESS YOU HAVE VERIFIED THE
INFECTION WITH MULTIPLE ANTIVIRUS ENGNINES. THANKS!


4. License
----------

MPlayer for Windows (Installer)
Copyright (C) 2004-2018 LoRd_MuldeR <mulder2@gmx.de>

MPlayer - The Movie Player
Copyright (C) 2000-2018 The MPlayer Team <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/>

SMPlayer - GUI front-end for MPlayer
Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Ricardo Villalba <rvm@users.sf.net>

MPUI - MPlayer for Windows
Copyright (C) 2005 Martin J. Fiedler

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt


5. Copyright
------------

MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy and has been extended and
worked on by many more since then, see the AUTHORS file for an (incomplete)
list. You are free to use it under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
as described in the LICENSE file.

MPlayer as a whole is copyrighted by the MPlayer team. Individual copyright
notices can be found in the file headers. Furthermore, MPlayer includes code
from several external sources:


6. Version History
------------------

[2018-08-08]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r38018
* SMPlayer updated to version v18.2.2 (SVN-r8937)
* Some installer improvements

[2016-12-11]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37905
* SMPlayer updated to version v16.11.0 (SVN-r8243)
* Now shipping Qt5 Runtime Libs (v5.6.0)

[2016-05-04]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37853
* SMPlayer updated to version v16.4.0 (SVN-r7558)
* OpenSSL libraries updated to v1.0.2-h

[2016-02-27]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37802
* SMPlayer updated to version v16.1.0 (SVN-r7439)
* OpenSSL libraries updated to v1.0.2-f

[2016-02-10]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37653
* SMPlayer updated to version v16.1.0 (SVN-r7318)
* NSIS updated to Version 2.50-0

[2015-11-07]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37451
* SMPlayer updated to version v15.9.0 (SVN-r7212)
* Various installer improvements/fixes
* Revamped auto-update tool
* Qt Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.8.7

[2015-02-06]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37368
* SMPlayer updated to version v14.9.0 (SVN-r6719)

[2014-09-29]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37260
* SMPlayer updated to version v14.9.0 (SVN-r6406)

[2014-07-27]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37242
* SMPlayer updated to version v14.3.0 (SVN-r6270)
* Qt Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.8.6

[2014-05-16]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37199
* This update contains a bugfix for DVD playing

[2014-05-05]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r37182
* SMPlayer updated to version v14.3.0 (SVN-r6219)

[2014-02-12]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r36816
* SMPlayer updated to version v0.8.6 (SVN-r6023)

[2014-01-13]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r36573
* SMPlayer updated to version v0.8.6 (SVN-r5971)
* The WMV playback issues should be fixed now


7. Web Links
------------

MPlayer - The Movie Player:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

MPlayer binaries for Win32:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

SMPlayer front-end for MPlayer:
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

MPUI front-end for MPlayer:
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

Doom9's Forum - Discussion on Multimedia Technology:
http://forum.doom9.org/


8. Help and Support
-------------------

For MPlayer usage questions, feature requests and bug reports use the mailing list:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users

SMPlayer bug reports and feature requests belong to:
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/

For feedback about this packge, please visit the thread at Doom9's Forum:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=138725


eof

[Sefyu]

Not to be disrespectful or anything like that, but I was wondering:

What seperates this player from other players available?
What is better?
Why is it not the 13th one in a dozen?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Not to be disrespectful or anything like that, but I was wondering:

What seperates this player from other players available?
What is better?
Why is it not the 13th one in a dozen?

1. OpenSource Software
2. Cross-Platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS
4. More than 192 Video- and 85 Audioformats supported natively (that is: without additional software)
5. 100% Stand-Alone: No Plugins, Filters, Codecs or whatever needed
6. Several Front-Ends available: SMPlayer, MPUI and many more. Plus you can easily create your own!
7. No dependency on DirectShow or other proprietary technologies (huge difference to most players on Windows)
8. Several video renderers supported (Overlay and OpenGL on Windows)
9. Good playback performance

Need some more? ;)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2006-06-16 :)

[2006-06-16]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r27081
* Uninstaller bugfix (reported by Guti)

[Clobon]

Hi

* Uninstaller bugfix (reported by Guti) Little late for me *GRRR* but thanks for fixing that>_<

HF, Clobon

[avih]

Is there a specific reason you opened a new thread for that? After all, your releases are quite regular (cheers for that! :) ). Anything different on this release? Major changes or version?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Is there a specific reason you opened a new thread for that? After all, your releases are quite regular (cheers for that! :) ). Anything different on this release? Major changes or version?

Yes, there is a specific reason:

The thread was older than two years, I lost ownership and couldn't rename the thread title any more :rolleyes:
So the mod (foxyshadis) suggested creating a new thread and close the old one...

Sharktooth ran into the same problem recently: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=138726

[avih]

K. I was hoping there was something radically new ;)
Thx again for your frequent updates of mplayer and avidemux :)

[johnsonlam]

Hello,


This definitely doesn't happen here. Maybe a bug in NSIS or UMUI ???


Previous version also got crash, I just forgot to report it immediately, a day later I think next version may be it'll be fixed, but I still got crash ... until I install with default.


Also SMPlayer fail to remove association of filetype.
Maybe a SMPlayer problem or an incompatibility to my own FileAssoc code...


It's easy to try, just start SMPlayer and go to file associate, click remove and then apply, all association will be back again ... click OK then check again got same result, that mean it's not working, but the installer really work fine and change all my associations.


BTW: If you attach images, I cannot see them (unless a mod approves your attachment). If you use Imageshack everybody can see them immediately


Sorry. I've forgot attachment in THIS forum need to approve, next time I'll use my hosting instead.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Previous version also got crash, I just forgot to report it immediately, a day later I think next version may be it'll be fixed, but I still got crash ... until I install with default.

Obviously it crashes in one specific plugin: NSISArray.dll
Since I'm neither the author of that plugin nor do I call the plugin explicitly in my install script, there's not much I can do about it :o
Most probably that's a bug in NSIS, in the NSISArray plugin or in UMUI.

It's hard to tell, since the crash is not reproducible on my machine. And I got no other reports so far...

It's easy to try, just start SMPlayer and go to file associate, click remove and then apply, all association will be back again ... click OK then check again got same result, that mean it's not working, but the installer really work fine and change all my associations.

Well, I only wrote the "File Association" code for my installer. Some of that code was ported into SMPlayer, but later it was modified again.
So I'm not sure how well my association code works together with SMPlayer's now. I'll give it a look when I have some time...

[RNiK]

Just upgraded without problems. :thanks:

[johnsonlam]

Most probably that's a bug in NSIS, in the NSISArray plugin or in UMUI.

It's hard to tell, since the crash is not reproducible on my machine. And I got no other reports so far...


If you have no problem, then let it be :)
It's not a major problem, just causing minor troubles and I can solve it.
Maybe you can consider provide ZIP packages for people like me, then I can just overwrite the changed files.


Well, I only wrote the "File Association" code for my installer. Some of that code was ported into SMPlayer, but later it was modified again.
So I'm not sure how well my association code works together with SMPlayer's now. I'll give it a look when I have some time...

That's means you code solid, they work fine :)
If it's out of your reach then just leave it alone, again ... minor nuisance only.

Thanks for your reply.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-06-27 :)

[2008-06-27]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1505)
* Installer improvements

[daleinrolla7]

LoRd_MuldeR
Hi, first off, I appreciate all your work with MPlayer for Windows. I first learned of this great package via MajorGeeks.com sometime in November 2007. I love this package for all the reasons you stated in link #3 of this thread. Here is my issue (of course) that I can't believe nobody else has come across apparently, seeing as I have read all the posts of the 1st thread (which is now closed) after 05-27-2008.
Two different machines:
Machine 1) 700 MHz PIII, 256 MB RAM, Intel 810 Onboard Video AGP 2x (cough) running PIII optimization.
Machine 2) 2000 MHz AthlonXP, 1024 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9550 Video AGP 8x running AMD optimization.
Fresh installs of WinXP SP3 on both machines.
The issue is that "certain" "older" asfs/wmvs (encoded with WMV1 & WMA2 according to G-Spot) immediately (or shortly thereafter) crash MPlayer ever since MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r26874 and newer, ie since 05-27-2008, where there has been a flurry of activity regarding MPlayer binaries.
Both MPUI & SMPlayer log output is virtually identical on both machines with the following run on machine 1...
MPUI Log Output:
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal -ao dsound:device=0
-sws 9 -af volnorm=2 "C:\Downloads\Evanescence - My Immortal.wmv"

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27081-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
Setting process priority: abovenormal
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing C:\Downloads\Evanescence - My Immortal.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
ID_VIDEO_ID=2
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
Assertion failed: len2 > 0 && len2 <= asf->packetsize, file libmpdemux/demux_asf.c, line 505

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 22 in module: demux_open
ID_SIGNAL=22
- 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.

SMPlayer Log Output:
C:/Program Files/Multimedia Apps/SMPlayer/MPlayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -wid 393650 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-color ffff0000 -ass-border-color 00000000 -subfont-autoscale 1 -ass-font-scale 1 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -af volnorm=2 -sws 9 C:\DOWNLO~1\EVANES~1.WMV

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27081-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
Setting process priority: abovenormal

Playing C:\DOWNLO~1\EVANES~1.WMV.
ASF file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
ID_VIDEO_ID=2
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
Assertion failed: len2 > 0 && len2 <= asf->packetsize, file libmpdemux/demux_asf.c, line 505

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 22 in module: demux_open
ID_SIGNAL=22
- 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.

Here is a downloadable link to the above file (~12MB)...

http://www.mediafire.com/?89yxddntzgz

This file plays perfectly with WMP9, MPC-2008-06-12, VLC 0.8.6H and of course Mplayer for Windows prior to 2008-05-27. Even if I set ao & vo = null, I get the same error message. I realize that this is probably an MPlayer issue and that you are not said developer, I was just wondering if you had any suggestions, or for that matter, is it just me and indeed this this is NOT reproducible by anyone else and I must be on drugs!

Thanks for your time & patience on my ramblings,
Stuck with 05-13-2008 (build 16).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Please use [CODE] (http://forum.doom9.org/misc.php?do=bbcode#code) tags to post your logs. Or even better use pastebin. Otherwise your post is terrible to read ;)

I can reproduce your probem, apparently it's a bug in the ASF parser:
http://pastebin.org/46757

Assertion failed: len2 > 0 && len2 <= asf->packetsize, file libmpdemux/demux_asf.c, line 505

You'll have to report that on the MPlayer mailing list or you must hope Reimar will read it here...

BTW: You can update to the latest build and then downgrade your MPlayer.exe to the latest "working" revision easily:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248631




Your WMV files plays fine with the latest revision of MPlayer, but you must enforce the "libavformat" demuxer instead of the default ASF demuxer:
http://pastebin.org/46760

[daleinrolla7]

Wow, that was fast...

Thanks for your suggestions on proper posting, my only defense... I'm an ignorant noob, I will certainly check out pastebin!
Thanks for your verification of my issue, and the tip on downgrading MPlayer.exe, I will probably be implementing this.
Let's see how many rules I can break reporting this to the MPlayer mailing list :-(

Once again, thanks for your timely & informative response.


Whoa, I couldn't even respond fast enough to your reply before I found out that apparently I can have cake and eat it also.
What can I say, except now I won't have to bother anybody else?
Thanx

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Wow, that was fast...
Thanks for your suggestions on proper posting, my only defense... I'm an ignorant noob, I will certainly check out pastebin!

You can still edit your previous post ;)

Whoa, I couldn't even respond fast enough to your reply before I found out that apparently I can have cake and eat it also.
What can I say, except now I won't have to bother anybody else?

Well, the bug in MPlayer's ASF parser should still be reported, investigated and fixed.
Using the "lavf" demuxer is only a temporary workaround...

[daleinrolla7]

Hmmm...
This "temporary workaround" has "magically solved" the only other real issue I have had since I started using your package in November 2007 (it involves the avi demuxer). I understand it is my duty to report what I have found for the sake of bettering MPlayer for everyone. This has essentially opened a new door for me, but now I need to do some investigating so that I can present by observations in a logical, concise & accepted manner. Once again,
Thanx

[LoRd_MuldeR]

The problem is: Forcing the demuxer to "libavformat" won't work with all file types. You will have to toggle it on and off, depending on what kind of file you want to play!
So I don't think this can be called "magically solved", it really isn't more than a workaround. I personally don't use any WMV files, so it's not an issue for me...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-07-02 :)

[2008-07-02]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1515)
* Installer improvements

This apparently fixes the problem mentioned in this (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1151051&postcount=615) thread.

[Reimar]

Just FYI in MPlayer's SVN the problem with the ASF/WMV file and -vo gl's ati-hack not working reliably should be fixed.
Note that ati-hack scales the width up to the next power of two, so it might almost double the amount of RAM needed by the vo (not that it should matter on any non-ancient PC).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just FYI in MPlayer's SVN the problem with the ASF/WMV file and -vo gl's ati-hack not working reliably should be fixed.
Note that ati-hack scales the width up to the next power of two, so it might almost double the amount of RAM needed by the vo (not that it should matter on any non-ancient PC).

Thanks for the info. Waiting for new builds to test that now... :)

[Reimar]

Thanks for the info. Waiting for new builds to test that now... :)

In addition in r27216 I disabled PBOs with ati-hack if the width is < 512. This is because:
1) there seems to be yet another problem, the texture upload does not seem to work reliably (starting from the certain line, the same line is repeated all over) - this seems to be a different bug, since the stride/layout of the PBO does not matter at all, but it seems to only happen when copying from an offset in the PBO.
2) PBOs quite a bit slower for these dimensions on ATI cards anyway.

How I wish for OpenSource drivers, then at least I can find out myself wtf they are doing!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

In addition in r27216 I disabled PBOs with ati-hack if the width is < 512. This is because:
1) there seems to be yet another problem, the texture upload does not seem to work reliably (starting from the certain line, the same line is repeated all over) - this seems to be a different bug, since the stride/layout of the PBO does not matter at all, but it seems to only happen when copying from an offset in the PBO.
2) PBOs quite a bit slower for these dimensions on ATI cards anyway.

Thanks for your explanation!

How I wish for OpenSource drivers, then at least I can find out myself wtf they are doing!

:rolleyes:

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows installer with new CPU detection code:
MPUI.2008-07-09.Full-Package.TEST-2.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?zkjz5xzihcm)

Feedback welcome :)

[Divet]

I've download MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27081-4.2.3 and I've found this message is displayed in console many times during playing many .avi movies:

[mpeg4 @ 0pee9970]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

What is it?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Maybe it's "packed bitstream", as found in AVI's created by DivX. This "feature" will pack several frames into one frame, which is required to workaround technical limitations in Video for Windows (VfW).
You can use Avidemux to "unpack" such AVI files. Simply open the "packed" AVI and you will be asked to unpack. Simply agree and save the AVI. That's it...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Another attempt to fix the CPU detection in my MPlayer for Windows installer:
MPUI.2008-07-12.Full-Package.TEST.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?xkwyytmb9ex)

Screenshots of the "Please select CPU type" page would be welcome :)

[Razorholt]

Here it is... Nice work!

http://70.86.69.186/~matrix/mplayer_ss.png

[Divet]

Maybe it's "packed bitstream", as found in AVI's created by DivX. This "feature" will pack several frames into one frame, which is required to workaround technical limitations in Video for Windows (VfW).
You can use Avidemux to "unpack" such AVI files. Simply open the "packed" AVI and you will be asked to unpack. Simply agree and save the AVI. That's it...
I did it!
Naturally, I was asked to unpack!
But FOURCC in source file was "xvid", not "divx"...
And after saving I've found FOURCC become "divx"!
Why?
After saving my problem was solved. Thank You very much!
But I want to know why this message about "Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames" didn't appear in previous mplayer versions? Maybe, it will be solved in next versions?.. Because it's very hard to me - to open and save in avidemux about all my .avi files - about 100 files!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

But FOURCC in source file was "xvid", not "divx"...
And after saving I've found FOURCC become "divx"!
Why?

Because there are several FourCC's that are commonly used to identify MPEG-4 ASP streams.
For example DIVX, XVID, DX50 and so on. But those FourCC's can be used interchangeable. There is not one "offical" FourcCC for MPEG-4 ASP video :angry:
Nevertheless some Hardware-Players won't accept the stream, unless it uses the "DIVX" FourCC as used by DivX, that's why Avidemux defaults to that one.
It's no problem, your stream was MPEG-4 ASP before and it is MPEG-4 ASP afterwards. Don't worry about it...

But I want to know why this message about "Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames" didn't appear in previous mplayer versions?!

Obviously your previous version simply didn't complain about the "packed bitstream" AVI file and accepted it silently.
Nevertheless "unpacking" is proper way to fix those files...

BTW: Are there any playback problems on the "packed" files or is there just the error message?
In the latter case, you can simply ignore the error message, if you don't want to unpack all of your files :p

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-07-13 :)

[2008-07-13]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1566)
* Tweaked automated CPU type detection

[hkazemi]

I'm getting a crash when trying to install 'MPUI.2008-07-13.Full-Package.exe' on WinXP SP3.

I did the following during a Custom Installation attempt:
-unchecked 'Set File Associations'
-unchecked 'Create Shortcuts' (included Desktop and Quicklaunch icons)

I get the crash right after I click next on the installation location screen. (MPUI.2008-07-13.Full-Package.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. ...) The detail is a crash in nsisarray.dll, offset 00001da8

The crash also leaves remnants in
C:\Documents and Settings\ (UserProfile) \Local Settings\Temp

I did not try a 'Complete' install because I do not want my file associations changed.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I do not call the NSISArray plugin directly in my installer code.
Obviously "Ultra Modern UI" (UMUI), on which my installer is based, is using the NSISArray plugin in it's "internal" code.
So most likely this is either a bug in UMUI or NSISArray, so I don't know what I could do about it...

BTW: I never encountered that crash on my machine :confused:


[EDIT]

The page right after "Install Location" page is the "Strat Menu Folder" page. Is there something unusual in your Startmenu folder at:
C:\Documents and Settings\John Doe\Start Menu\Programs

Like a great number of items (folders or shortcuts) or very long file/folder names or foreign characters ???

Anything that might cause an array to overflow ???


[EDIT²]

It's normal that a crashed installer will leave some files in $TEMP, because the installer doesn't get a chance to clean-up...

[The_Rebel]

Is anyone one else experiencing video playback issues with h.264 videos? I keep getting black screens with no picture.

I haven't read all of this thread yet, but i will soon..

[LoRd_MuldeR]

1. What video renderer did you select?
2. What does the log show ???
3. Can you provide a short sample file?

[The_Rebel]

1. What video renderer did you select?
2. What does the log show ???
3. Can you provide a short sample file?

I recently installed klipfolio.. turns out it was a directx overlay issue.

Thanks for your reply though.

One thing i have noticed.. h.264 looks a lot better with MPC/dshow then it does with the open source decoders. (i just wish i had the power for smooth playback with dshow)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I recently installed klipfolio.. turns out it was a directx overlay issue.

Try OpenGL renderer in MPlayer, it's much better now :p

gl:ati-hack:force-pbo:lscale=5

One thing i have noticed.. h.264 looks a lot better with MPC/dshow then it does with the open source decoders. (i just wish i had the power for smooth playback with dshow)

Every H.264 decoder delivers exactly the 100% identical output for the same input file, so this statement doesn't make any sens.
Also MPlayer uses "libavcodec" as H.264 decoder, that's the very same decoder as used by MPC-HC (internal) and ffdshow :rolleyes:

[The_Rebel]

Try OpenGL renderer in MPlayer, it's much better now :p

gl:ati-hack:force-pbo:lscale=5



Every H.264 delivers exactly the 100% identical output for the same input file, so this statement doesn't make any sens.
Also MPlayer uses "libavcodec" as H.264 decoder, that's the very same decoder as used by MPC-HC (internal) and ffdshow :rolleyes:

Thanks this works perfectly.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-07-17 :)

[2008-07-17]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r27305
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1573)

[Romario]

What's going on with Mplayer for Linux, can you compile it, dear LoRd_MuldeR ?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What's going on with Mplayer for Linux, can you compile it, dear LoRd_MuldeR ?

When using Linux you should get MPlayer via your Package Manager.
Also compiling MPlayer yourself is much easier under Linux, because most distributions come with the required tools and libs.

I'm not planning to offer binaries for Linux. I don't make the Windows binaries either...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-07-19 :)

[2008-07-19]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r27323

Note: This release is supposed to fix a crash regarding font-config.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'm getting a crash when trying to install 'MPUI.2008-07-13.Full-Package.exe' on WinXP SP3.

I did the following during a Custom Installation attempt:
-unchecked 'Set File Associations'
-unchecked 'Create Shortcuts' (included Desktop and Quicklaunch icons)

I get the crash right after I click next on the installation location screen. (MPUI.2008-07-13.Full-Package.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. ...) The detail is a crash in nsisarray.dll, offset 00001da8

This crash most likely was caused by a limitation in NSISArray! A workaround has been added to UMUI recently:

The crash happened when the script tried to read items (with the NSISArray:Read function) added in the eighth lists. To corrected it, I simply limited the search of subdirectory to only 7 levels instead of eight as before. NSISArray is limited to eight lists, I did not understand why it crashed when it read items at the eighth...

So the potential installer crash will be fixed in next release of MPlayer for Windows ...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Here is a new experimental test build of MPlayer for Windows:
MPUI.2008-07-21.Full-Package.TEST-1.exe

1. Updated NSIS to 2.38 and also updated UMUI to 2008-07-19
2. I disabled "skinned" buttons, because some people seem to encounter problems
3. The potential crash in NSISArray should be fixed

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2008-07-26 :)

[2008-07-26]
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.1 (SVN-r1583)
* NSIS updated to v2.38, UMUI updated to 2008-07-19
* Workaround for "Vista missing buttons" bug

[Clobon]

Hi,

I'm sorry to be troubling you again, but the newest package is crashing
no matter what...
It would only play back mp4 files but only after 30sec of... initialisation??

Ausgewählter CPU Typ:
·Intel Pentium 4 (MMX, SSE, SSE2)

Ausgewählte Einstellungen:
·Benutze 'Lanczos' Software Skalierung (Hohe Qualität)
·OpenGL Renderer anstatt Overlay benutzen (besser, aber benötigt OpenGL 2.0)


If I try to play back any other file it would tell me:

C:/Programme/MPlayer für Windows/MPlayer.exe
-noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo
gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect
-priority abovenormal -framedrop -wid 1446766
-monitorpixelaspect 1 -fontconfig -font Tahoma -subfont-
autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos
100 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -af
equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -sws 9 -noslices
J:\_HL_FU~2.OGM

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27323-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11)
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 J:\_HL_FU~2.OGM.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[Ogg] stream 0: video (FOURCC DIV3), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
[Ogg] stream 1: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[Ogg] stream 2: audio (Vorbis), -aid 1
[Ogg] stream 3: subtitles (SRT-like text subtitles), -sid 0
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=English
ID_SID_0_LANG=English
[Ogg] Language for -sid 0 is '-slang "English"'
Demuxer info Language changed to English
Ogg file format detected.
VIDEO: [DIV3] 640x480 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Language: English
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Language
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=English
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=J:\_HL_FU~2.OGM
ID_DEMUXER=ogg
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=DIV3
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=640
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=vrbs
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=1408.61
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: [ffdivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MSMPEG-4 v3))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffdivx
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders


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.


The CPU was detected correct (Intel P4)...
The 2008-07-17 package (which I reinstalled) works perfectly.
Btw: OS is XP Pro 32, GraCa is a NVidia 8800 GS 320, driver version is 175.16
(drivers are working fine so far).

Does anyone else experience such behavior?

HF, Clobon

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well, between the "2008-07-17" release and the latest release, I have updated the MPlayer binaries:
MPlayer SVN-r27305 versus MPlayer SVN-r27323

The only problem I encounter with the latest builds so far is that some (most) of my Ogg/Vorbis files won't play :(

I tried to report the problem in the MPlayer IRC channel, but I didn't get much attention, because I use Sherpya's patched builds.
Already filed a bugreport on Sherpya's tracker at SourceForge, but no replay so far...

You may join the discussion here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=992986&group_id=205275&func=browse

[Hogge]

Hi mulder!First of all thanks for a great mediaplayer the greatest i think.But the last 3 build i think is crashing,when starting avi files,sometimes it sound like an old vinyl hacking,like it trying to start,and then it crashes.I get the error code 62097.Now im using a build from 0426-2008 and its working flawless.Can you please check the logs Mulder.

C:/Program Files/MPlayer for Windows/MPlayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 2 -identify -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -fontconfig -font Tahoma -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -channels 6 -af volnorm=2,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -sws 9 -noslices C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.avi

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27323-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 1)
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
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 C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.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: [XVID] 672x368 12bpp 23.976 fps 996.5 kbps (121.6 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=XVID
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=996480
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=672
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=368
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=256000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=4642.14
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: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=256000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 672 x 368 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.83:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.8261
[swscaler @ 0pecdba4]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
[swscaler @ 0pecdba4]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter
VO: [gl] 672x368 => 672x368 Planar YV12 [zoom]

And here is the other.

C:/Program Files/MPlayer for Windows/MPlayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 2 -identify -slave -vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -ao dsound -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -fontconfig -font Tahoma -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -volume 100 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -channels 6 -af volnorm=2,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -sws 9 -noslices C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.avi

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27323-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 1)
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
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 C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.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: [XVID] 672x368 12bpp 23.976 fps 996.5 kbps (121.6 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=C:\Users\Hogge\Desktop\The.Key.2008.STV.DVDRip.XviD-DOMiNO\domino-thekey.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=XVID
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=996480
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=672
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=368
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8192
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=256000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=4642.14
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: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=256000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=a52
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 672 x 368 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.83:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.8261
[swscaler @ 0pecdba4]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
[swscaler @ 0pecdba4]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb24 special converter
VO: [gl] 672x368 => 672x368 Planar YV12 [zoom]



I would be happy if we can solve this i love your mplayer full version.Thanks Hogge

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Your logs don't show any errors :confused: