On AmigaSoft site it is possible to download the new mplayer version.
This is a major version and it is base on original mplayer CVS downloaded yesterday.

These are the major improvements:

*** First of all the speed. You can notice speed increased of a 25-30%. And if you think that the video drivers works in software mode.. This thanks to new Olaf Barthel's clib2-thread safe.

*** New video drivers and audio drivers:

-vo sdl
-ao sdl
-vo jpg
-vo png

The SDL video drivers allow to see video at full screen without problems. The only problem is that the video driver starts in fullscreen mode. If you press 'f' key it switches on Window Mode. This driver allow to cycle the WB screen modes pressing 'c' key. So when in fullscreen you wanna change the screen resolution just press the key.
The SDL driver in full screen resolution (the first resolution) is slow because there is no hardware acceleration (no overlay, you know? ;) ). So switch to window mode or change resolution
The SDL audio drivers works like ahi driver. You can mix video and audio drivers as you want.

f.e.
-vo cgx_vmem -ao sdl
-vo sdl -ao ahi

and so on..

The jpg and png drivers write the selected video on single frames in the video directory. So you can save the video in single frames. They cannot be used with other video and audio drivers. Just:

mplayer -vo png Drive:video.avi

*** The network streaming
Now it is possible to use the audio and (i think..) video streaming simply using this syntax:

mplayer http://www.mystreamingsite.com[:port]

or better:

mplayer -playlist http://www.mystreamingsite.com[:port]/mylist.pls

look that many site has other extension than pls. Even asp or php (with parameters included) pages can be viewed with -playlist option.

*** Playlist support
the -playlist option is useful when you want to use a playlist file. Just edit a files wth songs or videos filename

example:
list >ram:myplaylist.txt Video: LFORMAT %f%s
mplayer -playlist ram:myplaylist.txt -vo sdl

*** New codecs supported

and many other things.

The known bugs:
*** When you use SDL video driver and in the system is not present a large enough resolution, the video driver doesn't start. So it is recommended to create in the Picasso 96 a large resolution.
***If you wanna use CGX video drivers and want a fullscreen video that fill entire screen, you must create on Picasso 96 mode a resolution that has the same video width (and height). This because the CGX video is buggy.. and i'm working on it.
***Some DVD's reader signal a GetBusykey error. Please report to me the model
***There are many other bugs. So please report to me.

With Daniel we are working on a new skinnable GUI. The GUI is almost ready (but ask to Daniel). There is no arexx port in mplayer but i'm working on it so will be possible to seek the video directly from the GUI.

I think I have forgot other things..

For the Faq use this Page
Bye!

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@afxgroup

Your LhA download link isn't working.

My DVD drive isn't working either:
Liteon LDW-411S

Error getbuskey: 45
libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open si680ide.device:2 for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: si680ide.device:2

My other drive (an Afreey 10x) seems to work, but has problems such as repeating the same two-second loop. Neither of these drives worked properly in the previous version either.

The SDL output seems to be working.

Nice work.

Chris

Last edited by Chris_Y on 24-Mar-2005 at 08:48 PM.

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Many thanks, you just made this grumpy old man's day much brighter

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GOOD Andrea!
I'm just downloading it now!
Then I'll try it! :)

GOOD WORK!

Tuxedo.

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@afxgroup

gday lha link dosent work and i cant unpack rar file either

@poweramiga2002

i have upladed the lha version on os4depot. i have made the rar version with winrar and it doesn't work on os4.
i will make a new rar version.
please wait

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@afxgroup

I downloaded the rar version and here works(unpaked it with os4 unrar from os4depot)...

Tuxedo.

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@Tuxedo

Grazie caro..

So please download the rar version from os4depot. Even because i have problem with windows..

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@afxgroup

10x

^_^

ShInKurO

Now we should have a GUI with playlist

Ciaooo

@afxgroup

Thank you!

Quote:

With Daniel we are working on a new skinnable GUI. The GUI is almost ready (but ask to Daniel). There is no arexx port in mplayer but i'm working on it so will be possible to seek the video directly from the GUI.

I'm waiting for new GUI now

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@afxgroup

The previous version (p#3) still works here well as always, but this doesn't succeed with video, only audio works moderately. It also outputs error messages when stopping playback.

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@afxgroup

Sdl video driver is slow and cgx_vmem crashes everytime with alert number 80000004.

My DVD drive is Liteon LDW-451S and I get that "Error getbuskey: 45" too with movie DVDs. Some music video DVDs works OK (but very slowly).

(A1SE + Radeon, AOS4.0-pre-upd1/upd2)

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@Thematic

are you playing it with the gui? if no, what is the output of mplayer?

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@Tomppeli

as I wrote, SDL is slow when you start the video. If you change the resolution you should see it more speedly.

The Getbusykey is known. I'll add your DVD player to the list.
To see the DVD a bit speedy use the -framedrop options and CGX_VMEM in window mode.
remember to redirect the output on >NIL: if you are not using the GUI.
remeber even to se the resolution to a 32bit BGRA

It is strange that CGX_VMEM crashes. I can see all the video (with different video formats) without problems.
Anyone has the same problem?

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@afxgroup

What Tomppeli said, it crashes with cgx_vmem, and also sdl video output so far. I don't want to use a GUI for this.

If I play mp3 or ogg audio files, it will print the usual "mplayer crashed" etc. when exiting with ctrl-c (I didn't have time to actually get to the end of the file ;).

Last edited by Thematic on 24-Mar-2005 at 11:10 PM.

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@Thematic

the "mplayer crashed" it is normal because it is a linux port and the ctrl-c is taken as a abnormal close. But don't worry for this

instead for the video what is the problem? It starts and crash? in fullscreen or in windowed mode?

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@afxgroup

Both, I tried -fs option as well. You mentioned large resolutions, since my TFT does 1280x1024, that's the largest display I have in Picasso96 settings. Is that relevant?

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@Thematic

it is really very strange that CGX_VMEM crash because is the same of the previous version.
The SDL can be buggy. Try with other videos if you can. Even video of smaller resolutions.

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@Thematic

i have understand your problem. If you use ahi (not the dev version) and mplayer crash, the audio hardware is no more usable and so you have to reset the A1

If you use the ahi_dev there is no problem, even if mplayer crash.

So, try the videos with ahi_dev audio driver and tell me.

Bye!

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@afxgroup

Using gui 1.2 here and alls good very much faster smoother
good stuff