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  • From: Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:17:40 -0400

David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>


You seem to have greater luck building with more options so I'd recommend people use your build.


Progress! I have gotten the MPlayer configure script to detect the
existence of the X11 libraries. I will now need to get some
additional libraries (ogg, aalib, sdl) that people are requesting.
More as it develops.

If you're going to continue building MPlayer binaries, I'd ask that you build one with ogg and libcaca support built in. If you build in libcaca support then aalib is a little useless.


MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team



I have 1.0pre5. I didn't notice this until you pointed it out.



Might want to get the new version although I'm not sure what benefits you'll get besides bugfixes.


From the MPlayer site:

If you have a slow machine you should check out low resolution decoding with
libavcodec (-vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=0-3).

^ This is a big one for me. This will probably help a lot with speed on
my slower PC. This came with pre6.


CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.



I'll need to figure out why it says this is not optimal.



Because I used --enable-runtime-cpudetection so that it would work on more CPU's.


I would expect it to work as well as the other method, at least on
some CPUs.


Is a 486 a good enough low end since that is the target of BL3?

Maybe. MPlayer isn't really intended for slow CPUs.



MPlayer is intended for quality not performance.


The developers don't ignore performace, though: There are many
optimizations, and the feature I mentioned earlier certainly
trades quality for performace.

I realize that, but I'm saying that quality comes before performance although they do not completely ignore performance.


I do consider something like AAlib or libcaca necessary myself. Also, SDL's sound output I find works no matter what, it's quite good.



What are all of these used for?



AAlib/libcaca is for converting video into text. Have you seen so-
called ASCII art? It's mainly useful when you want to send video
to a terminal (which Steven (Clement) has said he wants to do).



It's also quite useful on older computers.


I'll have to try watching a DVD in text mode. :)

Let me know how it looks ;)

David

Stephen Clement




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