Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-12-20 , 23:13
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#264
Originally Posted by bsterix
With the new mplayer rc1.4 the video play quite faster, but sometimes (mostly) they have a strange flickering (!?) (i.e. sometimesīthe underlying window shines through for some frames). After the video stops the are "black holes" in the windowborders, and other strange things (a nonfullscreen image of the end of the video in the top left windowcorner), which partly vanish after pressing ESC or closing the browserwindow.
That's probably a problem of mplayer losing focus, but keeping video playback using direct framebuffer access. So it interferes with other applications that try to display something on the screen (everything that gets into a rectangle used by mplayer for video playback will be overdrawn). MPlayer still needs to handle losing and getting focus better (switching to other applications and back).

Right now it is better not to switch to other applications while MPlayer is running and everything will be ok (or should be ok ).

I normaly use mplayer with a script which is called directly by clicking on a videolink in the builtin browser (opera).
Just tested it with opera too, it seems to work fine here (unless you try switching back to opera before stopping MPlayer)

Are there any special parameters required in the new version (except -vo nokia770)?
None special parameters are required, but '-vo nokia770' has some suboptions which can be used to tune it. You can set a screen area for video playback in a 'windowed' mode. For example '-vo nokia770:x=174:y=60:w=600:h=360' sets video output area for windowed mode to the dimentions used by default video player. It may be useful for 'slave' mode if somebody decides to implement exact clone of default video player using MPlayer as a backend.

(I already have rebooted since installation of rc1.4, so i thing a upgrade to rc1.5 shouldnt change anything, if i understood the changelog corretly)
Yes, it is only a tweak for the installer, so you can safely stay with version mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.4

As soon as I get some more spare time, I'll add some performance optimizations to the scaling code and video decoder in order to improve performance even more.