Top 10 Tricks and Tips for the svn MPlayer

[andrew.46]

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[jpeddicord]

Nice tips. Thank you for your contribution!

[andrew.46]

Hi jacobmp92,

Nice tips. Thank you for your contribution!

Thanks for your kind words,

Andrew

[fillintheblanks]

hey, my DVD menus work

[Nepherte]

Perhaps it would be more useful to save the dvdnav options in the dvdnav protocol profile itself. That way you don't need to specify which profile you want to use. Like this:

[protocol.dvdnav]
profile-desc="Profile for reading DVD menus"
mouse-movements=yes
nocache=yes

Usage:

mplayer dvdnav://

Anyways, I find the usage of profiles in MPlayer a highly underestimated feature. Great that you mention it!

[andrew.46]

Hi Nepherte,

Perhaps it would be more useful to save the dvdnav options in the dvdnav protocol profile itself. That way you don't need to specify which profile you want to use. [...]
Anyways, I find the usage of profiles in MPlayer a highly underestimated feature. Great that you mention it!

I was a little torn with this as my original goal with this one was to highlight the use of profiles rather than delve into dvd menus as such. However you have a valid point and I shall add this is an alternative. Thanks for drawing my attention to this!

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi fillintheblanks,

hey, my DVD menus work

Supposedly the dvd menus are still a little hit and miss but I have had no trouble. I did not mention in this guide that of course there are also the 'keypad' keys:

keypad 8 Select button up.
keypad 2 Select button down.
keypad 4 Select button left.
keypad 6 Select button right.
keypad 5 Return to main menu.
keypad 7 Return to nearest menu (the order of preference  
         is:  chapter->title->root).
keypad ENTER Confirm choice.

which I don't use myself as I use a laptop with a few key sets missing .

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi jamiyoel,

Good Tutorial. Thanks

My pleasure . This guide is proving to be something of a 'sleeper' but I hope one day it will take off!

All the best,

Andrew

[mocha]

Andrew,

I know you don't have an nvidia 8xxx/9xxx card as you've mentioned numerous times, but "Tip 11" would definitely be VDPAU. It's revolutionary for desktop linux, IMHO... Splurge the $50 to get something like a 9500GT with 512MB or greater RAM, you'll really thank yourself if you watch a lot of videos on your desktop.

[andrew.46]

Hi mocha,

Good to hear rom you again!

I know you don't have an nvidia 8xxx/9xxx card as you've mentioned numerous times, but "Tip 11" would definitely be VDPAU. It's revolutionary for desktop linux, IMHO... Splurge the $50 to get something like a 9500GT with 512MB or greater RAM, you'll really thank yourself if you watch a lot of videos on your desktop.

Have a mentioned my modest hardware that many times . A laptop at that which will not actually take an upgrade video card... But your point is well taken and for my next computer I would be foolish not to get one with a decent card and definitely vdpau would be in there.

To move a little OT: I mentioned on another guide that in fact I have finally made a decision to retire from the svn installation guides for MPlayer that I have undertaken for several years now. In part because I have slipped behind the times with vdpau, FFmpeg-mt, coreavc and the like but mostly because Karmic is shipping with a decent MPlayer package. And of course rvm has a PPA with a decent copy as well .

All the best,

Andrew