Latest OS tools (ffmpeg, mplayer, tsmuxer, ...) discussion

[slooff]

Anyone else seeing this currently? I've tried to compile mplayer-mt from source today with the following sources:

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git clone git://git.gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
rm -r mplayer/ffmpeg
cp -r ffmpeg-mt/ mplayer/ffmpeg
cd mplayer
./configure
make

but even though it compiles fine, the resulting binaries are not capable of multithreading. I verified this with the following benchmark:

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./mplayer -vc ffh264 -vo null -benchmark -nosound -lavdopts threads=4 sample.mkv

This is on an opensuse 11.4 32-bit linux system with a 4-core AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 Processor. I've been trying to find older source code snapshots of ffmpeg-mt but wasn't successful...

[mazey]

new mencoder is out, this one looks really good..

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

[SubJunk]

None of the bugs that are preventing us from updating have been fixed yet.

[mazey]

None of the bugs that are preventing us from updating have been fixed yet.

ohh bummer it looked good in theory esp the deletion of mt.

[SubJunk]

well the guy who compiles them is expressing more interest in fixing ASS subtitle support now, so with a bit of luck the next build will support that and then i will submit more issues to the tracker for some of the other bugs and we can start moving towards a release we can use
you're right about the mt thing, i would love to be able to use 1 mplayer file instead of 4 :p

[G-rom]

Did you check out mplayer2 ?

[slooff]

mplayer2 looks good but does not bundle mencoder...

[mazey]

since i dont use subtitles i been trying to get the newer then 32735 mencoder builds to work but i keep getting no sound. does pms code have to be altered in someway in the future if we use the newer ones, or is it yet another new bug introduced.

[SubJunk]

since i dont use subtitles i been trying to get the newer then 32735 mencoder builds to work but i keep getting no sound. does pms code have to be altered in someway in the future if we use the newer ones, or is it yet another new bug introduced.

I'm waiting until VOBSUB support is added before seeing what is causing no sound, so I don't know.

An upcoming SubJunk Build will add support for another project called MPlayer2 which will - if all goes well - replace MPlayer/MEncoder in PMS.
The short story is that the reason MPlayer has kept getting worse for over a year is because the best devs left to make MPlayer2.

[chocolateboy]

An upcoming SubJunk Build will add support for another project called MPlayer2 which will - if all goes well - replace MPlayer/MEncoder in PMS.

As mentioned above, they've jettisoned MEncoder, and their proposed alternative isn't even vapourware at this stage.