hi all,

i'm not sure, if this was discussed here, but i have one small problem... when i launch mplayer (10p4?) to play dvd directly, it's too slow. the video and audio isn't synchronised, cpu usage is about 50%. when i enable the frame skipping, then it's okay, but the skipping looks sometimes really bad. and while i launch it by selecting the vob files, it's fast and smooth also without frameskipping. what's the difference between these two 'modes'?

anyway, mplayer is still the best movie player i have ever seen

bye, MarK.

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on MOS u mean ?
because on other platforms (linux, windows, macosx...) the best one for me is VLC.
once again a VLC port for MOS would be amazing *sigh*

Someone should add this to a FAQ, I've answered this question a few times now... ;)

Anyway, the reason direct mode is so slow/choppy is because the MorphOS version of MPlayer has the cache2 module disabled, thus there will be no caching of the deviceblocks as they are read (there is just a very crude per-block async reading which I wrote that speeds it up slightly (reading the blocks off the device will block MPlayer as little as possible)) .. and the reason playing back the VOBs directly (when possible (although this will cripple the DVD features)) is so much faster/smoother is because it will then use asyncio.library's caching instead (only possible at file level), effectively doing what cache2 would have done...


- CISC

@SoundSquare

ViPlay is the king of players


http://www.urusoft.net/

1.0p4, you compiled this yourself or someone put up some newer
binaries somewhere than 0.91?

@ MarK
anyway, mplayer is still the best movie player i have ever seen

'Cause you didn't see the DVPlayer

Pegasosforum/Files

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Well, MPlayer has a whole bag of tricks that DVPlayer doesn't, the only advantage it might have is that it's possibly slightly faster at pushing pixels to the screen because it doesn't have the advanced filter-layer that MPlayer does .. however it seems to be abit buggy at that, as it doesn't seem to support all pixel-modes.

..besides DVPlayer is legally questionable in the way it relies on GPL code to deliver what it promises (but I understand, users don't care) .. and please, don't start yelling and screaming and calling me a troll, we had enough of that the last time this issue was brought up, and it was sad enough to see how people (and their little armada of trusty friends) caught red-handed dealt with it then.


- CISC

@ merko

> 1.0p4, you compiled this yourself or someone put up some newer
> binaries somewhere than 0.91?

For MPlayer 1.0 Pre4 and Mencoder 1.0pre3:

http://www.pegasosforum.de/dload.php
--> Programme
--> Video

For MPlayer-1.0pre7 and MEncoder-1.0pre7:

http://fabportnawak.free.fr/mplayer/MPlayer-1.0pre7.lha
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/mplayer/MEncoder-1.0pre7.lha

Enjoy...

Has anybody figured out what causes the `memory leaks' in these. I have both 1.0 Pre4 and 1.0 Pre7. For every clip I watch it eats ram. A 610k avi will cost me 4M or ram each time it's played. Watch enough clips and you run out of ram.

I am running both of these with MPlayer-GUI 1.13

Furvert

[ Edited by Furvert on 2006/5/21 8:59 ]

I would say the GUI have a memory leak, cos when i play it without the GUI MPlayer don't eats the Memory up.

I'd have to agree with the player on this one... i've used mplayer extensively and do not recall "memory leaking" so stop using the gui and just launch movies with asl requester...

magnetic

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Well, DVPlayer probably supports all the basic formats I need (You know, avi, ogm, mkv and mpg) that mplayer supports, which means it would probably be "good enough" for me, but I still can't see why I would want to buy it to use it instead of mplayer (even if I could)

And yes, we have Frogger too

Yes we have Frogger but afaik it's dead, the frog didn't get accros the street. The only thing i would wish is a nice GUI like DVPlayer has one for the MPlayer.