It is downloadable from http://www.amigasoft.net site the new version of mplayer.

It has many new features and i have mada a lot of bug fixing.

** REMEMBER THAT IS ALWAYS A BETA VERSION **
** THIS IS A VERSION WITH ALTIVEC ACTIVE. SO G3 USERS PLEASE REPORT ME PROBLEMS**

now:

the dvd can be viewed with:

-dvd-device a1ide.device:x dvd://1

and vcd with:

-cdrom-device a1ide.device:x vcd://1

where x is the cd/dvd that you want use.

to play files there are same parameters

mplayer -vo cgx_vmem|cgx_wpa|cgx_overlay::ALWAYSBORDER|THINBORDER|NOBORDER -ao ahi|ahi_dev

remember that there are a lot of parameters that you can use. Go to mplayer site and read the documentation.

Now it is possible to use with full screen with -fs parameter or pressing key 'f' or clicking on video during playing.

The net is not active yet (i'm working for the next release)

Altivec is not active on all lib. i'm working on it. This version is the 1.0pre6 + last CVS of FFMPEG and MPLAYER (so most advanced tha 1.0pre6).
DTS on DVD is not active yet, AC3 yes.

mmm.. maybe other but I don't remember now..

please report to me all bugs..

Bye,
Andrea

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@afxgroup

great! , will test it asap!

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Great!!!

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@afxgroup

am getting it right now will test as soon as its here

@afxgroup

Yeah!

This is great news! Good work!

MPlayer (the previous version) had really good image quality
I thought, compared to my PC media players.
But that can be my Amiga eyes wanting it to better also


/Harry

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@afxgroup

Works well here so far -G4 Radeon

Still needs quite a bit of speed when playing "The killer".

Fullscreen works nicely using the F key but not when clicking on the window.

Keep up the good work.

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@afxgroup

Great! Thanks ever so much for your hard work!

FuZion.

@cap

try with double-clicking

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@afxgroup

Thanks for the update. I have a G3SE. I played a test vob file with this version.
But still very slow to watch DVD on my machine. Full screen works but picture size is same as the windowed version. Why can't I see the movie "full screen"?
Also I only hear the sound of vob file (which has ac3 track) from my left speaker.
Is there any special thing to hear proper sound from DVDs?

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@afxgroup

Nice one :) Fullscreen works and it says also altivec is enabled.
As i copied over the config with yours (default) i forgot how to
do the config. Insteaf of "-vo" i had to use "vo=" so it works
nice again.

Dopus4 + mplayer = :D

As im lame in all this i wonder what screenmodes is standard
to use for movies. I have only 320x240/640x480/800x600/1024x768.
Some movies will have a black background as i belive i dont have
the right size. So therefore i check with you people what more
screensizes i must have.

Thanks

@Kicko & Image

Simply wait for the overlay support for Radeon cards - I will, at least. That should solve most issues with framesizes, especially for mpeg files, because these usually have aspect ratio set so the player can scale correctly automatically. Then, you will probably need a separate screen only for multitasking reasons.

For now I'm quite content to view in 1:1 sizes.

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@afxgroup

I just tried again. It works when viewing a file but if i start a DVD it
does not. (Switching to Fullscreen)

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@cap

When overlay will be active the speed will be increased. Another important thing. remember that (except for beta testers), now there isn't DMA on DVD/CD so it decrease the speed considerably. Whene we can have a full DMA system the speed will be more. And now the libavcodec (the library of codecs) is not compiled with altivec because it crash on a function. So i have disabled it. When the altivec will be active on this library, we have more speeeed..
Idem for postproc. This not crash, but the colors go wrong when compile with altivec. Idem for liba52 (the ac3 library). When i compile this library with altivec the sound are distort.

I think there are some mistake with gcc 3.4 and altivec because MacOS users has no errors,

next thing to do are the net support, the double buffer for the full screen and the altivec for the rest of the libraries,

Another thing. Try to run mplayer with:

run >nil: mplayer ...

it increase the speed considerably

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@afxgroup

avi's and mpegs are damn smooth now, superb.

but dvd's has issues here, i guess altivec aint enabled there yet? , sound and picture is offset (worse than earlier mplayer versions) ...

anyway great work, mplayer is my main player now, dvplayer i use for dvd still.

rock on!.

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@afxgroup

Great work :))
Especially the FullScreen flag ;) It's nice to watch video fully on my 17" Flat screen rather on tiny windows :)

Just One problem : DVD suport.
When I use your Mplayer flag "-dvd-device a1ide.device:3 dvd://1" the DVD is seen. Mplayer find the angle, chapters, but when it comes to play, all freeze.
No window opened. I have to reboot.
I tried this with DVDs that "worked" with the previous release.
And if I use the Mplayer.gui, it's a different problem : window open, but the sound is trashed.

µA1-C 750FX

@Toaks

it is strange. i have no much dvd's to test so i usually use same dvd.. so my brain is conformed to this dvd..

another important thing. Mplayer has tons of function that i haven't tested.. so there are

this link and this link

that allow to tune mplayer. So if anyone wants to try this commands can report me what work and what doesn't work

thank you

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@Kicko

I typically add a few of these: 352x240 (VCD NTSC), 352x288 (VCD PAL), 480x576 (SVCD PAL), 480x480 (SVCD NTSC), 720x576 (Full-size capture PAL), 720x480 (Full-size capture NTSC) and for widescreen PAL DVD I just use 1024x768 (the resolution is 1024x576, black bars up and down make it 1024x768). Don't know what you would use for NTSC Widescreen DVD to avoid vertical stretching to correct aspect ratio (which is the devils work).

You get pretty far with just 1024x768, 640x480 and 720x576/480 (typically need both of those). Then you can watch VCD with pixel doubling, SVCD with horisontal stretch, 4:3 DVDs with only the 768 to 720 (or 704) pixel resampling (DVDs are actually 5:4 resolution so need rescaling WHATEVER you do ), DivX in 720 and 704 (16 pixels worth of black bars isn't too bad) pixels, and widescreen DVD. Whatever you do, try to avoid doing anything else than 1x, 2x or 3x number of lines. Vertical scaling can be a total BITCH to look at

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@Kicko

That actually depends on the movie resolution.

Most movies will have to be stretched to fit the screen.
Every zoom or increase/decrease in size will deform
the movie in some way. Some players zoom good
others worse.

The vertical resolution is the thing to check.
As movies often have aspect of 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 you
should not choose too low resolution. Actually not
less than 800x600 when viewing widescreen (16:9)
material. Ordinary fullscreen (4:3) material should be
viewed in the screen size it is encoded in.
PAL DVDs is best viewed in 800x600 or 1024x768.
NTSC with it's lower resolution will always have to be
stretched. Best is to choose a resolution not deforming
the movie too much. Maybe 1024x768 atleast. Do not
choose too low resolution on NTSC as this will remove
too much material from the picture making it fuzzy.

Also too high resolution will make everything wrong
with the quality show even more.
So it's a balance. Maybe 1024x768 is the best alround.


Btw black borders on fullscreen mode in MPlayer (and
on TV sets) will always show black borders over and under
the actual movie playing. Assuming it has a widescreen
aspect ratio.


/Harry

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@Tonton_Pascal

i'll check the dvd code this evening

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