Howto: Utilise the svn MPlayer to Improve Karmic Koala's 'mplayer-nogui' Package

[andrew.46]

Hi Arup,

Thanks so then for latest mplayer compile requiring vdpau, 190xx series drivers should be a prerequisite then.

Some final confirmation here:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/...er/078126.html

Interesting times indeed .

Andrew

[Arup]

Hi Arup,



Some final confirmation here:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/...er/078126.html

Interesting times indeed .

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, will be watching that thread.

[bofphile]

Andrew, I've successfully compiled mplayer with ffmpeg-mt but I have some problems. When I play Bluray files, frames are dropped while my dual core CPU is not fully used and the load is not spread evenly between the 2 cores. By default the governor is set to ondemand but even when I fix the frequency of my 2 cores at their maximum speed, the problem remains.

I've tried several options like noframedrop and cache size, but the issue remains. Here is a screenshot to show the CPU load when playing a m2ts file: http://bofphile.free.fr/Images/Capture-1.jpg

I'm using a Thinkpad T500 with a 2,67GHz dual core CPU and an integrated intel 4500MHD graphic card.

Any idea what could be the problem ?

[andrew.46]

Hi bofphile,

Andrew, I've successfully compiled mplayer with ffmpeg-mt but I have some problems. When I play Bluray files, frames are dropped while my dual core CPU is not fully used and the load is not spread evenly between the 2 cores. By default the governor is set to ondemand but even when I fix the frequency of my 2 cores at their maximum speed, the problem remains.

I am afraid that my knowledge of MPlayer-mt is confined to the single time I have successfully compiled it, and to tell the truth I immediately returned to the standard MPlayer once I was satisfied of my success. Perhaps there are some dedicated MPlayer-mt users here or on the thread dedicated to the subject that can help out? This thread is here:

HOWTO: Compiling mplayer with multi-core decoding support
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049449

I note on this thread there is a manual replacement of the static FFmpeg with FFmpeg-mt files, a technique I have not tried myself.

My apologies,

Andrew

[bofphile]

Thanks for your help anyway .
I'll try to ask on the thread you suggested above.

[zackiv31]

This might be outside the scope of this guide, but I want to compile mine with mencoder as well. You listed:

$ cd $HOME/mplayer
$ ./configure --cc=gcc-4.3 --confdir=/etc/mplayer --disable-mencoder
$ make
$ sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" \
   --pkgname mplayer-nogui --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default \
   --pkgversion "3:1.0~svn-`grep "#define VERSION" version.h | cut -d"-" -f2`"
$ make distclean

I changed the configure line to this:

./configure --cc=gcc-4.3 --confdir=/etc/mplayer

Do I need to alter the checkinstall line (or have two?). Example appreciated!

[Arup]

I have mencoder working here with Acidrip, during the compilation omit the --disable mencoder from ./configure line and then for install use

sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" \
--pkgname mplayer-nogui --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default \
--pkgversion "3:1.0~svn-`grep "#define VERSION" version.h | cut -d"-" -f2`" --provides "mplayer,mencoder"

[zackiv31]

Well that got mencoder installed... but I'm having trouble with the encoding itself... mencoder is Skipping Frames like crazy on my video. This use to happen on both mplayer/mencoder with the 9.10 builds...

Funny thing is, mplayer can play the file fine now (which is a step in the right direction), but mencoder is still choking.

[Arup]

Well that got mencoder installed... but I'm having trouble with the encoding itself... mencoder is Skipping Frames like crazy on my video. This use to happen on both mplayer/mencoder with the 9.10 builds...

Funny thing is, mplayer can play the file fine now (which is a step in the right direction), but mencoder is still choking.

Try using all the cores of your CPU, also can you tell me what video card you have on your system.

[andrew.46]

Hi zackiv,

Well that got mencoder installed... but I'm having trouble with the encoding itself... mencoder is Skipping Frames like crazy on my video.

I will admit that I gave up on MEncoder a while back and pretty much exclusively use FFmpeg. I am not sure what level of commitment the MPlayer developers still give to MEncoder...

Andrew