Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2006-12-21 , 22:04
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#267
Originally Posted by bsterix
Is it possible to see if mplayer is still starting up, when i clicked a link, or if it already crashed because the video was not playable or some other reasons keep mplayer from working correctly (i.e. to less memory or so).
I'll try to make mplayer (command line binary, not a gui frontend) add some icon to the taskbar when it is running, that should solve some of the most annoying problems.

By the way, did this new mplayer package install fine for everyone? I could not test all the possible system configurations such as mistral or scirocco and r&d mode turned on or off. It should be easy to notice if the new video output code is working by looking into 'Report' after watching some video. You should see something like this there ('nokia770' video output driver and 'yuyv422' as target colorspace):
VO: [nokia770] 336x176 => 336x176 Planar YV12 [fs]
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2

SwScaler: FAST_BILINEAR scaler, from yuv420p to yuyv422 using C
SwScaler: using FAST_BILINEAR C scaler for horizontal scaling
SwScaler: using 2-tap linear C scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
SwScaler: 336x176 -> 400x210
In the case of any troubles with accessing framebuffer, mplayer may fallback to x11 or sdl output drivers, it is not good for performance as nokia770 driver should be the fastest right now and is set to be used by default. So please report if mplayer refuses to use this new driver with yuyv422 colorspace on your system for some reason.

In addition, this new video output code has better scaling support. While using software scaling introduces some noticeable but not critical performance degradation for non-optimal resolutions, at least image quality is good. That means mplayer is less picky about video resolutions now.