I need a video player for MOS which can play back h264.
I have now over 2000 videos encoded with x264.

Since halve a year MPlayer can play back h264.
But IMHO there was never an updated version for MOS.

Can you tell me if there is somewhere a new version which I've missed? BTW Who ported MPlayer to MOS?

Or will be the only way to see the movies install OS4emu and to run the OS 4 Mplayer? Will this work out of the box or is there anything to take care of?


Cheers


[ Edited by BigGun on 2005/8/10 14:52 ]

it will work, but OS4 MPlayer lacks Overlay support.

Hi,

CISC wrote on irc:

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anyone with an MZ account wanna point out to BigGun that although MPlayer has theoretically supported H264 for quite a while it only really became somewhat usable last month (and still has a few minor issues), so he needs latest CVS build ->

..and he can expect it to be shit-slow unless he disables the loopfilter (-lavdopts skiploopfilter=all)

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Gunne

[ Edited by gunne on 2005/8/10 17:23 ]

@ CISC (in IRC)

FACT:
With MPlayer b7 (build 2005-03) running on MAC OS X I have watched hundrets of H264 movies flawlessly.

Its nice to hear that the recent MPlayer versions have improved.
But the old MPlayer was working perfectly for me for a quarter of a year now. Maybe my video files are somewhat more compatible? I don't know. But your claim that MPlayer was not useable for h264 before can't be true.

Cheers


[ Edited by BigGun on 2005/8/11 4:33 ]

BigGun:
Are you surprised with your answer?

Of course it is "too buggy". That's the standard answer you
always get from anyone within the "MorphOS Team".

"GCC 3+ is too buggy"
"MPlayer is too buggy"
"MOS TCP Stack is too buggy"

etc..