mplayer2 (MPlayer fork)

[anonova]

I recently discovered that there's a new MPlayer fork called mplayer2.

http://www.mplayer2.org/

It looks like the main goal of this project is to clean up a lot of cruft that remains in the original MPlayer project. Thoughts?

Edit: Here are a few differences from MPlayer (http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html).

easy to build with ffmpeg-mt support
not dependant on the ffmpeg tree or internal symbols
better handling of Matroska files (including ordered chapters)
precise seeks
gapless audio playback
improved audio/video syncing

[bernd_b]

Up to now there is not much noise about mplayer2?!?

I did some tests using the patched one with the mencoder replacement. It seems to be a "mplayer pipes to ffmpeg" solution. At least codecs and options available seem to me to be the same as ffmpeg itself supplies.

So far so interesting, as long as mplayer(2) gives you some more video filter and options (delogo or -speed e.g.) as ffmpeg itself and direct access to DVD e.g.

My results are very promising up to now. Reading several times on the mencoder-user mailing list, that mencoder is not maintained any more, this gives hope that the double pack mplayer as player and encoder may survive...

[JEEB]

Up to now there is not much noise about mplayer2?!?
Mostly because mplayer2 as a name is rather new, until now it's been called mplayer-uau etc., a fork of uau's developments on the original mplayer (some being rather big changes). It's been used by people whom wanted more features etc. for around two (?) or so years already.

This year the project finally got a new name, and a more official stance.

I did some tests using the patched one with the mencoder replacement. It seems to be a "mplayer pipes to ffmpeg" solution. At least codecs and options available seem to me to be the same as ffmpeg itself supplies.
It's not exactly like that (no piping related), but yes -- it uses ffmpeg/libav in the background to access things and encode.

[Selur]

"precise seeks" with precise position indication would be nice for EDL creation,..

[smok3]

any ubuntu ppa's that would allow having mplayer2 installed next to 'ordinary' mplayer?

[Chikuzen]

any ubuntu ppa's that would allow having mplayer2 installed next to 'ordinary' mplayer?

Why do you need ppa ?
There is already well maintained git repo for compiling yourself.

$ sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion gitcore yasm autoconf libtool
$ git clone git://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2-build.git
$ cd mplayer2-build && ./enable-mt && ./init
$ echo --prefix=$HOME >> ./mplayer_options
$ make -j4
$ make install
$ mv $HOME/bin/mplayer $HOME/bin/mplayer2

[smok3]

Chikuzen: cool, :thanks:

[SubJunk]

I'm definitely interested in a branch of this project called mplayer-uau-vo-lavc as a replacement for MEncoder.
lachs0r is releasing a new build of it sometime today and I'll get some testing done.

[lachs0r]

Just FYI, I publish Windows builds on http://mplayer2.srsfckn.biz

There are also experimental builds which support the new high bit depth stuff in libav (that means they can play 9/10-bit h.264, but it will not look very good since swscale does not do dithering yet).

[SubJunk]

Still just waiting for Avira to stop detecting -vo-lavc as a virus before delving into it, like we discussed on IRC. Silly Avira!

[lachs0r]

Well, you can always pester them here (http://analysis.avira.com/samples/index.php) (it takes them a few hours to process requests), but all they’ll do on false positives is to add specific files to the whitelist with the next VDF update (I gave up after like 20 files).

[SubJunk]

I just hope they fix the actual problem instead of excepting it

[ckmox]

Just FYI, I publish Windows builds on http://mplayer2.srsfckn.biz


thanks for this, and just suggesting to make your builds available to the official mplayer2 site so that more people can download it :)

[roozhou]

Hi lachs0r,

Could you tell me how to compile mplayer2 under Windows? I have MinGW and all dependent libs and headers. I have downloaded all source codes from git. The old version of mplayer is very easy to build(running configure with my settings and make). But I have no idea how to build the new git versions?

Thanks in advance.

[lachs0r]

I didn't build mplayer2 under Windows yet, but for cross compiling, the dependencies and mplayer2 itself need an awful lot of patching. Building mplayer2 is very easy once everything is in place; you just have to run the usual configure && make && make install. It autodetects and enables as much as possible, so you don't need a lot of switches for the configure part.

[roozhou]

I didn't build mplayer2 under Windows yet, but for cross compiling, the dependencies and mplayer2 itself need an awful lot of patching. Building mplayer2 is very easy once everything is in place; you just have to run the usual configure && make && make install. It autodetects and enables as much as possible, so you don't need a lot of switches for the configure part.
I don't use linux at all. I am quite interested in porting some useful patches to mplayer2. So what should I do? Can you list the dependencies? I'd prefer a portable MinGW, with all dependency libs and headers, in a 7z archive that can be used compile mplayer/ffmpeg on any computer.

[DGMurdockIII]

is there a gui that comes with mplayer2?

[Zarxrax]

Wont people get this confused with the old mplayer2 that used to come with Windows? :)