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MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here
bfree writes "Now on your favourite mplayer mirror you can find the 1.0Pre1 release of Mplayer! While work is underway on a second-generation version of Mplayer, I have already fired off emails to my Windows-based friends to let them now that the one player to rule them all now has (preview) support for their OS (I've only looked at a precompiled command line version on Windows but it handled everything I threw at it so far except DVDs). Big changes include Windows (via mingw32 and cygwin) ports, as well as Mac OS X (with extra-accurate Darwin timers). Now if only all those legal questions would go away, perhaps we could have a new killer Free Software application to save people installing Real, Quicktime and Windows Media Player (on Linux!?) or perhaps it's the one application to finally tell the **AA where the world wants to go today!"
Mplayer rule them all? Yeah right, I guess Linux that zealots haven't ever heard Zoom Player. (It rules already)
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Unfortunately I only saw the Linux player there and source. I believe the OSX binary is still the July version. So there may be a delay before it is available.
OSX MPlayer
I agree gmplayer is a very poor interface.
I much prefer Totem - although that's Gtk+ based.
You could try KPlayer or eMotion - the only KDE/Qt alternatives I'm aware of.
Or <flamebait>you could just switch to a better desktop</flamebait> - the perfect time now that the 2.4 release is imminent!
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You mean something like this?.
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For Windows, I would suggest using Media Player Classic. It's made to look like the good, light and fast Media Player 6.4 but it includes support for all the new codecs (including an automatic search from the web if you feed it a video with uninstalled codec) and has a ton of nice features. The updates come rather regularly.
I don't know about this new mplayer on Windows, but the 0.9 at least was very slow on my computer. On FreeBSD it works fine.
Have a look at VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/ and don't be confused by the name :-)
If you want to see some windows-users' jaws drop, wait until one of them complains he cannot see some movie or the subtitles and show them one of the jukebox-on-a-CD linux distributions based on mplayer.
They boot, they play. No installing, no fuzz.
They can play anything mplayer 9x Can.
You know the simultaneous best and worst thing about GNU/Linux/OSS etc is there is always another option...
There was a new beta of Totem released yesterday too - it's a GNOME 2 media player based on Xine (it doesn't attempt to reinvent the wheel). The author is also working on a Gstreamer back end for it.
Why do I like it? A quote on their webpage sums it up: "Totem is the only media player I've seen that doesn't attempt to have skins or look like a reject from a 1971 Kenwood catalog." For those of us who like Windows Media Player (pre 8) for its clean and consistent interface and were annoying that Linux doesn't have anything like it, Totem's your project.
Mplayer does some files better than Totem, but if you want to do more than "mplayer This.divx", check it out.
(standard "I have nothing to do with this project other than thinking it's really cool" disclaimer)
Throwaway Question that will Undoubtedly Get Dozens of Answers while the Rest of the Post Goes Unread: Why doesn't Mplayer disable XScreensaver while playing?)
rpm ftp://ftp2.nectec.or.th/pub/linux-distributions/L
and install the following:
- mplayer-common-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-BlueHeart-1.4-2
- mplayer-skin-Cyrus-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-hwswskin-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-neutron-1.4-2
- mplayer-skin-slim-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-xine-lcd-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-avifile-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-CubicPlayer-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-gnome-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-netscape4-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-proton-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-xanim-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-AlienMind-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-CornerMP-aqua-1.0-2
- mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-MidnightLove-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-plastic-1.1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-WindowsMediaPlayer6-1.2-2
- mplayer-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-CornerMP-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-default-1.6-2
- mplayer-skin-mentalic-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-phony-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-trium-1.0-2
- mplayer-tools-0.90rc4-2_4tle
You should then have my setup, which plays everything I have thrown at it.Put identity in the browser.
Nah, probably something like this Availiable for major destkop platforms.
It is called Media Player Classic. It's hosted on sourceforge and is open source! It also conviently doesn't include Quicktime or Real codec's but a quick search on google for Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative gives you those codecs! It can play everything provided you have the proper codec installed including DVDs so everyone on windows enjoy. Appropriate links follow below:
Media Player Classic
Real Alternative
Quicktime Alternative
mencoder http://some-stream/ -oac copy -ovc copy -o somefile
that works here quite nicely for saving video streams
Well, mplayer is mostly usable without any win32 lib and that means there are no copyright problems. All you really need is libavcodec: and there are no problems with that aside from the patents, and, as of this time, these are not enforcable in Europe and I hope that it stays so.
Real life is overrated.
No need to wait. You have to download Apple's latest gcc.
GCC Segfaulted? Can you say "that's most-likely a GCC or hardware problem"?
I have to hand it to these guys. I've tried all the other gpl'd players and they don't come close to mplayer. It just works. Sound is good, video is good. The only thing I haven't got it doing is oggs and I think thats just cause I haven't compiled it in (playing wma's on it is good tho!). It is certainly one of the more interesting ones to compile from souce because of the libraries etc.. but once you get past that hey it's all good.
:)
Sure the interface needs some work, like a dockable playlist etc... but man... I'm still blown away... I think I need to sit down... I'm getting hot flashes just thinking about mplayer v1.0
Perhaps it's worth mentioning that Windows Media Player does not download divx? Perhaps it's also worth mentioning that "Joe Windows" somehow always manages to get hold of the divx codec anyway?
All the codecs are available for download off the mplayer site, along with the program itself. There's no problem here.
- Totem (for GNOME)
- Kaffine (for KDE3)
- OpiePlayer2 (for handhelds even!)
Even more are listed on xine's website here. Totem is the only one there I can vouch for, being a gnome user myself, but the point remains that you don't have to stick with the xine-ui one.And what would be the problem with libcss in Europe? I am not aware of any decision against it.
Real life is overrated.
Which is what I did, and it worked fine with Windows 98 and 95, after I just deleted a registry setting. However, 2000 and XP are, in my experience, a lot more tricky and recreated the registry setting on reloading and needed some DVD Genie style software to work. It seems later vers of Windows do more to stop you playing DVDs you legally own yet which the manufacturers have decided should be viewed only in certain countries.
from man mplayer
-stop_xscreensaver
Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.
The Mplayer software is absolutely brilliant, when running using the VESA driver (under bash), I managed to get my old Cel 500mhz laptop to play Dual-pass XVid at 30fps, without a problem. Plus the steady and all-in-one approach to drivers is a solution to the horrible driver mess that forms on any windows machine.
-Gwala
#!/bin/csh cat $0
If you go to:
http://www.freecodecs.com/
you'll find a few programs called Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative. It has everything you need to replace your Real and Quicktime codecs plus it comes with a fairly recent version of Media Player Classic.
I tried it out and found that it worked and seeked better than RealPlayer.
anyone that wants to see the greatness of mplayer on windows, check out http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-bet a/ and grab the mingw32-dev-CVS-... package. you can even add the realplayer and quicktime codecs from the download page and have real/quicktime working without having to install the horrible realplayer/quicktime players.
I don't know whether this was something intentional (i've been trying to find out) but somewhere in the last couple of minor releases I have no longer been able to play a group of files by doing 'mplayer *' on the command line. I have to make a playlist file and then play them.
There's another good KDE/QT player: Kaffeine http://members.chello.at/kaffeine/ is a Xine based player
I did a successful flash and now my LG DVD-ROM 8161B works perfectly! The auto-reset firmware sets the available number of region changes to the maximum every time I boot the computer. Neat!
BOO! TERRO
They can't fix what they can't see.
MPlayer have a bunch of good and useful "hidden" (as in you have not yet read the man/info page) features, my favorit is -dumpstream to grab video files and trailers of the net. :)
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I don't understand. MPlayer *does* actually play files. It can stream any normal format as well. It plays all files except really obscure and useless formats.
I've found that MPlayer is more stable than XINE, and it plays video with a lot less CPU load. However, on one occasion, I had to use a XINElib based player (Totem) to play a really messed up WMV file that didn't seem to be properly encoded. Totem (XINElib) could play it, but MPlayer gave no video, even though they were using the same codecs from the same directory.
MPlayer is my default player of choice, without the GUI (I prefer to use the arrowkeys for file navigation). It's associated in Nautilus to play all of my files. However, I keep Totem as my backup, though I've only had to use it once (in two years). I've found XINElib stuff to hard-lock my machine on multiple occasions, though in recent tests its been much more stable.
One final thing about MPlayer. It, and its encoder, MEncoder, are great programs. You can have MPlayer send the output of an audi file to a raw PCM or WAV format, and convert it into OGG or MP3, so that you can play the files back in XMMS or something. I used it recently to convert some WMVs into OGG, for testing, and it sounded great. I couldn't notice any real difference between the files, and all of my Linux players could then handle the file.
And for the many users of Mandrake, MPlayer with the proper codecs (and many other good programs) are available as rpms at PLF
I've only recently (a few weeks ago) got into DVD-ripping under *NIX (using FreeBSD) and I found mencoder to be the most intuitive cli tool to use. Just thinking about trying to remember all cli switches to transcode makes my head hurt.
u bcmp=258:vmax_b_frames=1"
Mencoder with libavcodec/ffmpeg provide good quality video encoding at decent speed. I am using the following -lavcopts to archieve the best results:
"vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:trell:precmp=258:cmp=258:s
Make sure you pick a good video bitrate and rip the audio at good quality. Personally, I suggest 192 kbps CBR MP3 to prevent any kind of compatibility issues.
Xine already does these things for Linux. Uninstall your old version of xine, then go to http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ and get the latest build. Plays QT6 files, divx, WMP, DVDs, etc. Also works much better for Freevo if you're into that. RPMs only here (wish the source would be out to manually compile, but oh well). Works on RH9, Mandrake 9.1, and SuSe.
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concatenating mpegs is trivial.
.avi files, use avimerge:
1. cat 1.mpeg 2.mpeg > big.mpeg
2. mencoder -idx big.mpeg -ovc copy -oac copy -o mybignice.mpeg
There, that wasn't too hard was it.
For
avimerge -i 1.avi 2.avi -o big.avi
I would love to be able to use MPlayer on my OS X box. The interface, however, is one of the worst example of bad design I think I have ever seen. The program truly has to be seen on OS X to see how bad it is.
Opening a movie opens the movie in another running program. The controls, on the other hand, are still in the original mplayer application.
Menus are empty and unusable in the movie's application.
There are other problems, these are just the major ones.
Until Mplayer fixes some very serious UI issues in the OS X version, my money (figuratively) is with VLC. VLC also does one required thing - plays movies in full screen on one screen, while allowing me to work on another application on another screen. Mplayer takes over all monitors when in full-screen.
In order to be accepted across the board, GPL software needs to remember UI. Maybe Mplayer is better on other platforms. It still has a long way to go under OS X.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
I did the install from the RPM's on the MPlayer site instead of doing my own build, they have lots of dependencies, some apparently circular, so installing everything from one rpm command seems to work best. The one library that I didn't already have on my system and wasn't in the RPM's was libfaad, which I quickly found with a little Googling.
The only other setup I had to do to get MPlayer working was that it expects the DVD drive to be /dev/dvd by default, so I made a symlink for that. MPlayer also lets you set the DVD drive via the settings menu or a command line switch, so this is not a big deal
The DVD I watched was Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". Yes, I know, evil company. Playing title 1, chapter 1 only showed a Walt Disney logo then playback stopped. I tried various other titles until finally discovering Title 17 was the movie itself. I didn't figure out how to bring up the main DVD menu, which would have hopefully made figuring out where on the disc the movie was trivial.
Playback was initially jerky and poor. Toggling a couple of the playback / frame dropping options fixed this and playback became flawless on my system.
I did experience some cryptic error messages and a couple crashes (application crashes, not lockups) so I would characterize MPlayer as very usable but not completely stable.
As far as user interface, it was good, and similar in layout to Windows Media Player and such. My main complain about the GUI was that many of the buttons are labelled only with a symbol, and hovering the mouse pointer over them did not bring up any kind of help bubble to explain them, so using the GUI involved more trial and error than it should have.
The other feature I tried out was MP3 playback. It sounded good, but when I associated MP3's in Nautilis with MPlayer and clicked on a second MP3 while the first was playing, it didn't switch songs or enqueue, but rather started up a second instance of MPlayer playing a different song at the same time, which sounded terrible. I'm sure there's a way to fix this (if nothing else, a shell script wrapper would work), but compared to WinAmp doing things right from the start, it still came as a disappointment.
I haven't tried the other features out (skins, encoding, etc.) but all in all, I was impressed with what I have seen so far. For people looking to play DVD's and other types of media under Linux, MPlayer is well worth downloading.
If anything deserves to be mentioned along with mplayer, it's Xine. In fact, I think it's been better than mplayer for quite a while now.
Oh god, the moderators got it wrong again. VLC can't circumvent your drive's firmware, which is the only way to get rid of region-coding on all drives. CSS isn't the same as region coding.
- Chris