New release of Media Player 6.4

[gabest]

iwod: You sound like someone wanting to make a better logo ;) ... and one day, I'm going to add an equalizer code to the audio switcher.

phrentec: Yea, already using upx. It would be 2 megs otherwise.

[phrentec]

oh okay good thanks to UPX. :)

from page 13.
Originally posted by gabest
phrentec: Hm, did I forget to tell you where it was? I can definitly remember that I wrote this down once, but where??? :) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Gabest\Media Player Classic\Settings\LogoFile = "pathtotheimgfile"
(the rm extensions already have their UI in the options.)
Also i can no longer figure out how to disable the logofile either through the registry or the ini. i put logofile=0 under [Settings] but it still shows it up, i also tried several other ways but still no luck. any idea how?
thanks.

[gabest]

Hm, it still works for me. Aren't you using a translated version where maybe this string was also replaced?

[phrentec]

ah nevermind it works. it was because i renamed mplayerc.exe to mpc.exe and so i kept trying to get it to edit/read from mplayerc.ini but where it was supposed to be written to and read from mpc.ini.
problem solved. thanks.

[Sgt_Strider]

@Gabest

I posted this a while ago but I didn't get an answer. Is there a way to adjust brightness/gamma/contrast in MPC? When watching DVD's on my crappy monitor, its really necessary to increase the gamma or brightness to a suitable level for viewing.

[gabest]

Only through the decoder filter, when it offers the needed controls on its property page. Or if you run the renderer with an overlay surface, you can usually change that globally from the display settings.

[Coroner]

@Gabtest

A question for you please.

I got the subtitle option to work in MPC. I loaded an avi and it works fine, however if I load a .vob the subtitle options become greyed out.

Am I right in thinking MPCs subtitle function doesn't work on .vob files?

If it doesn't will you be adding support for this combination in a future release?

I am using the PowerDVD XP 4 filters and lateset MPC 6.4.5.9, VMR9 renderless mode.

Thanks

[gabest]

Is vmr9 renderless loaded at all for vobs? Could you please check it in the filter menu?

[Coroner]

Wow, that was quick!

I have Video Mixing Renderer 9 in the filter list and ticked. It is at defaults with Set merit: 00200000

The following is showing below in the media type window

MEDIATYPE_Video
|
--Any type

Is the above correct?

Thanks

[gabest]

No, not that filter list, I mean in the menu, under play/filters/... You can also force a renderer to be loaded if you add it in the options, but that's not the prefered way. To operate in "renderless" mode and allow subtitling it has to be initiliezed properly, so renderers must be chosen from the combo box at options/playback/videorenderer.

[Coroner]

Sorry,

In menu Play=>Filters I have the following listed

M-Audio Revolution
Video Renderer
Audio Switcher
Overlay Mixer2 (greyed out)
Cyberlink Audio Decoder
Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder
MPEG-2 Splitter
D:\DVD_VIDEO\VIDEO_TS\GITS SAC EP 1.VOB (greyed out)

I could not see VMR9.

In menu View=>Options=>Playback
Output is has the following settings
Zoom 100% Auto-zoom (ticked)
Video: Video Mixing Renderer 9 (Renderless)
Audio: M-Audio Revolution (00200000)

Open settings has the following settings
Use worker thread to construch filter graph (ticked)
Report pins which fail to render (ticked)
Auto-load audio files (ticked)
Auto-load subtitles (ticked)

The subtitles work for avi files just not vob files
Does the above information help?
Thanks.

[gabest]

Interesting... Could you send this version of cyberlink's mpeg2 decoder to my email? "clvsd.ax" is the file in question.

[Coroner]

Gabest, I sent it to the email address at gabest.org

[gabest]

Ok, the answer is simple. It won't connect to anything else than the overlay mixers (normal or 2). I tried dvobsub, vmr7, vmr9, even the null renderer. There must be a simple check for the connecting filter's clsid, but I can't get around this I'm afraid. Use an older version, those work nicely.

[Coroner]

Yes, I tried all those too! Well in a way I'm glad you couldn't get it to work - because it means I'm not going mad.

You mean an older version of the cyberlink decoder?

Or perhaps a different one? windvd, theatertek or something?

[gabest]

Yes, I use 3.5.0.1011. Looks like the 4.* series is not very friendly with other apps.

edit: with newer windvd filters I can only see blackness, but nvidia's was quite ok even if it showed me a BSOD a few times :)

[Coroner]

Thanks for the help. I'll give it a go with the 3.5.0.1011 and see what happens.

[Coroner]

Gabest,

Which version of Powerdvd has that filter?
The filter in Powerdvd 3.0 is version 2, the subtitles work but the play back looks awful, weird vertical bar atifacts.
Powerdvd 4 XP was the one I was using but didn't work.

Thanks

[gabest]

PowerDVD.exe, 4.0.0.1018, 2001/10/18 .. also labeled as 4.0 XP :)

[Coroner]

Thanks :>

[AtomicDalton]

I was looking through the posts and noticed 6.4.5.9 was released. I was wondering if it fixed the OGM subtitle issue, though the changelog made no mention of it. I'm happy to say that, at least for me, VSfilter is not necessary to view OGMs with subtitles. From the changelog, all I can say is it might be related to manipulating styles on subtitles, or it might just be one of those bug fixes that don't get mentioned in changelogs.

Thanks for the active development, this is awesome.

Now, I still just have to get used to turning off antialiasing when I watch a video. :)

[ryouga]

Nice job on the new version. Especially cool is how RM now hits my overlay catcher :) (I think... haven't done too much testing)

But, now I have a new task for you! I like listening to digitallyimported.com's radio, and I figured I'd run it through MPC...

First, it says it has an unrendered pin (ASF URL Handler::Out) when I put the ASX file into it.

Also... it doesn't show the information about the stream. Just "Playing", where mplayer2 will show "Clip: Vocal Trance @ DigitallyImported.com" "Author:..." etc etc. So now see if you can get it to show the stream info! :)

[chros]

There's a bug in the newest release x.x.x.9 (aug 1):
Shift + <- and -> : not always working (going to keyframes)
Shift + mouse on the slider : never working (going to keyframes)

it was good in the x.x.x.8

[gabest]

AtomicDalton: Ah, I always forgot about the rest of changes :) Once I thought it would be cool to not forward the text samples to the internal script command renderer which is usually connected after mpc's subtitle grabber filter as the stream terminator (the other could be dvobsub), but I forgot that if ISCR doesn't receive one sample it won't let the other renderers go on either. In the end I made another filter just to have a proper ending of text streams and now no more problems...

ryouga: There is a little bug in mpc since .7 or .8 what prevents opening asf/asx off the web when it has a file extension. Don't know if that is the prob here. The meta information is not displayed because I don't know asx very well, I just check the refs and add the files on the playlist.

chros: With the new avi splitter it may not always work, but next time it will do better I hope, even the matroska and realmedia splitter will have this new interface. On the other hand I had to remove the old key frame searcher thread because user complained that it puts too much stress on some cdroms when loading an avi...

[Sgt_Strider]

Originally posted by gabest
Only through the decoder filter, when it offers the needed controls on its property page. Or if you run the renderer with an overlay surface, you can usually change that globally from the display settings.

I'm not sure if this is asking too much but do you think you can implement this feature into MPC? I like how TCMP have the ability to adjust brightness in the program and it would be awesome if MPC have this ability as well :)

[gabest]

Not unless I would be using the overlay mixer exclusively, which I'm trying to avoid since the beginning, even though it is still selectable.

[phrentec]

'it would be good if mplayerc showed the video and audio bitrate of the movie, including the bitrate of real media files.' and quicktime files if possible. also so that one wouldn't have to keep pulling out the calc.exe to figure out the bitrate.

[Safai]

gabest: Is it possible to make jpeg (or any still picture) playback go to the next file in the playlist after x seconds?

[Pasqui]

Using latest MPC version (6.4.5.9) I get a crash when I try to play a MPEG file, whatever video output I use. Everything was working fine with MPC 6.4.5.8. Moreover I do not have problems with AVI or MKV files.
Here is the log taken with Dbgview:
00000012 21:44:42 [536] Process [FDD4CC70] MPLAYERC.EXE registred (C:\DVD\MediaPlayerClassic\mplayerc.exe)
00000013 21:44:42 [536] >>Start process [FDD4CC70] mplayerc.exe
00000014 21:44:46 [3428] DRV_OPEN
00000015 21:44:47 [3428] DRV_OPEN :3403328
00000016 21:44:47 [3428] ACMDM_DRIVER_DETAILS
00000017 21:44:47 [3428] ACMDM_FORMATTAG_DETAILS
00000018 21:44:47 [3428] ACMDM_FORMATTAG_DETAILS
00000019 21:44:47 [3428] ACMDM_DRIVER_ABOUT
00000020 21:44:47 [3428] ACMDM_FORMATTAG_DETAILS
00000021 21:44:49 [536] Process [FDD27C90] DRWTSN32.EXE registred (E:\WINDOWS\System32\drwtsn32.exe)
00000022 21:44:49 [536] >>Start process [FDD27C90] drwtsn32.exe
00000023 21:44:51 [536] >>Terminate process [FDD4CC70]
00000024 21:44:51 [536] >>Terminate process [FDD27C90]

Thanks for your great work !

Pasqui.

[stax76]

I have a few problems with tags described here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59063), probably a bug but I don't know exact from which software

[alx]

Oh well, one more.......i just uninstalled Tiny Personal Firewall 4.5 and installed the new one (5.0) and when i try to open any file asociated with MPC, MPC shuts down.
I burnt MPC in a cd with an avi that i made, and made an autorun.inf file that calls a .bat file........when i insert the cd in the drive and MPC should start, a message box appears saying "Abnormal program termination"........if i copy all the cd to the hdd, and run the bat file, movie plays ok...

Any Ideas?
Thanks a lot.
Alx


PD, Sorry about my poor english

[mrchisholm]

Stream 0
MPEG-2 Demultiplexer

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_DVD_LPCM_AUDIO {E06D8032-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 18

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x0000
nChannels: 2
nSamplesPerSec: 48000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 192000
nBlockAlign: 0
wBitsPerSample: 16

When i play this M2V clip there is no sound, what codec do i need? I have WinDVD installed, all other m2v files work fine but not this one? :(

[uneasy]

gabest: in 6.4.5.9 still no option to play multiple video files from explorer context menu? :(

[jonas]

Hi Gabest,
I think OSD has been a feature request before. Since I started watching TV with mplayerc again I miss seeing the Volume level and channel Number, so I was thinking this morning whether it would be very hard to implement the on screen display using the players subtitling engine. Either having > (play) and ||||….. (Volume) displayed or even making a new font.
Of course this is just an idea and I have no clue if this is possible or not.

thanks, jonas

[mhe]

Originally posted by jonas
Hi Gabest,
I think OSD has been a feature request before. Since I started watching TV with mplayerc again I miss seeing the Volume level and channel Number, so I was thinking this morning whether it would be very hard to implement the on screen display using the players subtitling engine. Either having > (play) and ||||….. (Volume) displayed or even making a new font.
Of course this is just an idea and I have no clue if this is possible or not.

thanks, jonas

Yes OSD would be nice, this could also make it possible for OSD menus. Like the filemanager OSD in zoomplayer where you can browse to mediafiles, very useful when you use the computer as TVout only with remote.

[arman68]

Originally posted by mhe
Yes OSD would be nice, this could also make it possible for OSD menus. Like the filemanager OSD in zoomplayer where you can browse to mediafiles, very useful when you use the computer as TVout only with remote.

I totally agree.

However I don't think comparing to Zoomplayer is good: all of zoomplayer OSD, cropping and aspect ratio correction does not affect the video overlay, which means if you want to have the best tv output possible and use DVDMax (Matrox) or Theatre (ATI) features, the OSD is not visible on the TV and the image size and aspect ratio remains unchanged. IMHO zoomplayer is one of the worse players for these reasons.

I think the key is to use the subtitling engine since it is displayed in the overlay.

Have a look at Crystal Player from http://www.crystalplayer.com if you are looking for an OSD on TV.

[CruNcher]

@arman68

indeed crystalplayer has some nice features but did you ever watched the memory footprint only @ startup is ridicolus and if you play it fills even more.

[mhe]

Originally posted by arman68
I totally agree.

However I don't think comparing to Zoomplayer is good: all of zoomplayer OSD, cropping and aspect ratio correction does not affect the video overlay, which means if you want to have the best tv output possible and use DVDMax (Matrox) or Theatre (ATI) features, the OSD is not visible on the TV and the image size and aspect ratio remains unchanged. IMHO zoomplayer is one of the worse players for these reasons.

I think the key is to use the subtitling engine since it is displayed in the overlay.

Have a look at Crystal Player from http://www.crystalplayer.com if you are looking for an OSD on TV.

Didnt know that, i`ve pretty much only dealt with nvidia cards and all has been fine with zoomplayer. But since mpc also plays .rm / .qt and zoomplayer has gone the payroute instead of the opensource route, ive switched.

Another feature that would be immensely useful is the ability to play common image files directly. Like bin files & img files.

[uneasy]

I have a problem with external subtitles while watching DVD as well. I tried NVDVD 2.55, WinDVD 4.0.65.0 and 5.0.26.23, PowerDVD 4.00.2417 and 5.0.0.602 codecs, but with little success. PowerDVD codecs doesnt allow to load external subtitles (option is greyed out), with other codecs subtitle loads but it never shows up (tried all video modes from overlay to vmr9). What am I doing wrong?

Another question - I have problems with NVDVD codec. The picture is too bright and misplaced. Does anyone else have those problems?

[Lobuz]

I think the solution could be done by Gabest in his own oryginal great style. That's by making own MPEG2 video DirectShow decoder from sources of MPEG2Dec3. It's quite fast on modern systems. So should work without problems.:D

Regards
Lobuz

[Animaniac]

A Super all MPEG parser would be sweet. MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4. *drools* It will fix the nasty MP3 playback bugs... *prods Gabest*

[rakaz]

Originally posted by iwod
who design the logo?? It is not that i don't lke it.......but i think it could be better.....

How about a logo contest??
A while ago I created a new logo for private use on my own computer, so it matches the other icons on XP better. I created a mockup of how it could be used by MPC.

http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.jpg

The .ico file, which contains icons in 8 bit and 24 bit and has 16, 32 and 48 pixels versions can be downloaded here (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.ico). The bitmap I used as the logo can be downloaded here (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.bmp).

As you can see, it is inspired by the old MPC icon and complies with the Microsoft icon design guidelines for XP.

[athos]

rakaz > that looks really really good! clean and nice, but not dull. you got my vote.

[Animaniac]

Originally posted by rakaz
A while ago I created a new logo for private use on my own computer, so it matches the other icons on XP better. I created a mockup of how it could be used by MPC.

http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.jpg

The .ico file, which contains icons in 8 bit and 24 bit and has 16, 32 and 48 pixels versions can be downloaded here (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.ico). The bitmap I used as the logo can be downloaded here (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.bmp).

As you can see, it is inspired by the old MPC icon and complies with the Microsoft icon design guidelines for XP.

Incredible. I love it. I hope it gets implemented. Could you do file icons as well?

Edit: Just one for all file types would be fine for me.

[Schultz]

Originally posted by Animaniac
Incredible. I love it. I hope it gets implemented. Could you do file icons as well?

Yes it looks nice i would like to see file icons for Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Mpg to easily seperate them..

[rakaz]

First of all, thanks for all the positive replies. Although I did some icons and artwork for my open source project (not av related), I am not a professional icon creator.

Could you do file icons as well?
The mockup (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc.jpg) is updated to include a general file icon. The icon can also be downloaded as an ico file here (http://www.creatype.nl/mpc/mpc-doc.ico). Just like before, the file icon is complient with the Microsoft XP guidelines and should fit in nicely.

Yes it looks nice i would like to see file icons for Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Mpg to easily seperate them
I do have some plans to create new icons for Real and QuickTime, but I am currently too busy for other icons. Perhaps in a week or two I have more time.

[V_ICE]

I know MPC can play Gifs so is it possible for the logo to be an animated Gif instead of just playing the first frame ?
The best media player out there by the way.:)

[chros]

There's a neew release: MPC 6.4.6.0

Change log:
- built-in mpeg1/mpeg2 decoder (also for dvds)
- file open dialog will open all files from the current directory when the "open" button is pressed without choosing any file.
- new column for app command buttons at options/player/keys
- logo chooser

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&release_id=179339

[BRMSlash]

built-in mpeg1/mpeg2 decoder (also for dvds)

Well I just did a fresh install of Windows XP and updated it and it can't play dvd's without an external dvd player installed. This is the error message I get.

The following pin(s) failed to find a connectable filter:
DVD Navigator::AC3

Stream 1

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_DVD_ENCRYPTED_PACK {ED0B916A-044D-11D1-AA78-00C04FC31D60}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_DOLBY_AC3 {E06D802C-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 18

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x0000
nChannels: 6
nSamplesPerSec: 48000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 0
nBlockAlign: 768
wBitsPerSample: 0

Another point to note is that it does play decrypted vobs on my hard drive, although with no sound, after a simliar message.

So I guess the built-in mpeg1/mpeg2 decoder is only the video portion of the relevant standards. All we need now is an in-built ac3/dts decoder :)

[Schultz]

well you can just get a free ac3 filter from ac3filter.sf.net which will solve those issues for yea..