On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:21PM +0100, Michal Varga wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Frank Staals <fr...@fstaals.net> wrote: > > On 12/29/09 14:31, Lars Engels wrote: > >> > >> Quoting Frank Staals <fr...@fstaals.net>: > >> > >>> I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy need > >>> the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solution. > >> > >> > >> Are there any killer features missing in our old version from ports? > > > > I don't really know. The reason that I used svn snapshots in the past was > > that my machine in combination with the mplayer port was unable to decode > > relatively high res h264 video while with the svn version there were some > > improvements which did make it possible. But that is a long time ago. > > > Related to that, VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ) is > definitely "the killer feature", though I'm not sure how well (and if) > it works on FreeBSD. For what I know, it works miracles on Linux > (well, at least Linux people say that). Quick google turned out this, > so I guess it's a start: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4756 > > For anything else "killer-grade", I'm not really sure, but since the > dawn of time, mplayer code base has always been a bit flaky (well, "a > bit" itself is a bit too generous here). I guess all of us keep at > least one other "backup" movie player (Gnome's Totem, XINE before > that, etc.) for files that make mplayer die horribly in a ball of fire > (recent youtube formats, I'm looking at you!) and vice versa - so one > can reasonably assume that sticking to a 3-year old code base is not > the very best we could do here and in the long term, unmanageable. It > will only get worse.. 4 years? 5 years? Eventually other apps that use > mplayer as their backend will start to fail, dtto various mencoder > frontends (I'd say 'video editing software', if we only had any), and > we will get stuck with gstreamer-powered crap (ok, not exactly bad, > but even now in 2009, it's light years far from anything that 3-year > old mplayer can do, and, you know, even a bad timed sneeze or an > unfavorable lunar phase can make Totem crash).
Thanks a lot for the information on the new features. I hope we can find a solution to use the svn version.
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