Duncan,
as I stated in the mail it is for video/plugins/mplayer.py. I'll put it
in the bugtracker
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Paul Sijben wrote:
>
> Great work Paul, that must have been quite a job.
>
> I have a problem with patches like this because I don't know which
> mplayer.py you are taking about. There are three:
> ./src/tv/plugins/mplayer.py
> ./src/audio/plugins/mplayer.py
> ./src/video/plugins/mplayer.py
>
> Would you be so kind and do a patch against the rel-1-6 and report this
> as a bug. I will class this as a bug because the old code was horrible.
>
> Duncan
>
>
>> Ok you have been seeing the problem I (and others had with unichrome and
>> freevo). I seem to have got the solution now.
>>
>> A good compile of mplayer 1.0rc1 (for a certain definition of good) and
>> the attached patch for video/plugins/mplayer.py will do the trick (the
>> patch is against freevo 1.6.1). Note I am using a recent unichrome build.
>>
>> Actually the attached freevo patch works for all kinds of video outputs
>> that require a different vo setting for different classes of movies.
>>
>> So if you have a unichrome system (possibly an EPIA board) put this in
>> your local_conf.py in the mplayer section and apply the patch. It tells
>> freevo to use the vo device "xvmc:deint-bob" with option "-vc
>> ffmpeg12mc" when playing mpeg2 (the bob deinterlace option I found to be
>> necessary, it will play with less CPU usage without it but the image
>> will be flickery sometimes, so you may try simply "xvmc" if you want
>> even less CPU usage). For all other movies it will use "xvidix" using a
>> different kind of hardware acceleration.
>>
>> MPLAYER_VO_DEV_HWACCEL = "xvmc:deint-bob"
>> MPLAYER_HWACCEL_SUFFIX=["mpeg","mpg","vob"]
>> MPLAYER_VO_DEV = "xvidix"
>> MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS_HWACCEL='-vc ffmpeg12mc'
>>
>> of course as well as having "mpeg","mpg","vob" in the
>> VIDEO_MPLAYER_SUFFIX list.
>>
>> and put
>> colorkey=0x000000
>> in your .mplayer/config (it always failed when I tried to put it on the
>> command line but this works too)
>>
>> and put
>> libviaXvMC.so.1
>> in /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
>>
>> Now coming to the point of a good build of mplayer may be simple or
>> hard for you. In all cases you will need some patches. Some exchanges
>> with Davin Desborough and myself have resulted in the following recipe.
>> The first three lines are relevant if you are on Ubuntu or some other
>> debian derivative, of you are on another linux flavour, you need to
>> resolve it in another way.
>>
>> add deb-src to /etc/apt/sources.list if you don't have it
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
>> #OK so we now have all the dependencies sorted
>> wget
>> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
>> wget
>> http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-users/attachments/20061023/6cdd63fd/mplayer.tar.obj
>> tar xvf mplayer.tar.obj
>> bunzip2 MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
>> tar xvf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar
>> cd MPlayer-1.0rc1/
>> patch -p1 -i ../mplayer/MPlayer-1.0rc1-openchrome_xvmc_vld.patch
>> patch -p1 -i ../mplayer/MPlayer-1.0rc1-remove_bobdeint.patch
>> patch -p1 -i ../mplayer/MPlayer-1.0rc1-openchrome_bob.patch
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xvmc --with-xvmclib=XvMCW
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> OK, you now may be set, or you may be not. Try to play some audio with
>> mplayer. If it sounds good, you are ready.
>> If it sounds horrible you are likely on a VIA C-2 or AMD CPU. There
>> appears to be a bug in mp3lib that is triggered on CPUs with MMX or some
>> such speedup tech. This is fixed in the svn build of mplayer. so check
>> that out in the way indicated on the mplayer site. I tried applying the
>> unichrome patches manually to the svn tree but that failed, so I ended
>> up configuring that tree too with the same options as I built 1.0rc1.
>> When it is configured copy over the mp3lib directory to the 1.0rc1 tree
>> as well as mpcommon.mak . Now build your 1.0rc1 tree again (a make clean
>> before doing that make might not hurt, I guess). I found that the
>> resulting mplayer works just fine.
>>
>> At this point I am using just some 25% of total CPU power on my 600Mhz
>> EPIA board while playing a recorded TV prog (recorded with ivtv). Using
>> mplayer I can stop the show and can resume playback later. Also I found
>> that mplayer is far more responsive to input from the remote control
>> than xine.
>>
>> So after all the hard work I am a happy camper. So I hope this will give
>> you what you need to!
>> BTW: Davin offered to put all of this in a more verbose version in the
>> Wiki so I'll gladly let him have the honor of doing that :-)
>> BTW2: I suggest this patch to be included in the main freevo tree as
>> many people are running freevo on EPIA and other unichrome setups.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> --- mplayer.py 2006-11-30 17:45:33.000000000 +0100
>> +++ mplayer.py-orig 2006-11-28 12:46:11.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@
>> def __init__(self):
>> # create plugin structure
>> plugin.Plugin.__init__(self)
>> - if not hasattr(config,'MPLAYER_HWACCEL_SUFFIX'):
>> - config.MPLAYER_HWACCEL_SUFFIX=[]
>> +
>> # register mplayer as the object to play video
>> plugin.register(MPlayer(), plugin.VIDEO_PLAYER, True)
>>
>> @@ -110,13 +109,6 @@
>> self.item_length = -1
>> self.item.elapsed = 0
>>
>> - #XXX PS
>> - VODEV=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV
>> - VODEVOPTS=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS
>> - if item.mimetype in config.MPLAYER_HWACCEL_SUFFIX:
>> - VODEV=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_HWACCEL
>> - VODEVOPTS=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS_HWACCEL
>> -
>> if mode == 'file':
>> url = item.url[6:]
>> self.item_info = mmpython.parse(url)
>> @@ -153,8 +145,6 @@
>> additional_args = []
>>
>> if mode == 'dvd':
>> - VODEV=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_HWACCEL
>> - VODEVOPTS=config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS_HWACCEL
>> if config.DVD_LANG_PREF:
>> # There are some bad mastered DVDs out there. E.g. the
>> specials on
>> # the German Babylon 5 Season 2 disc claim they have more
>> than one
>> @@ -205,9 +195,8 @@
>> mode = 'default'
>>
>> # Mplayer command and standard arguments
>> - command += [ '-v', '-vo',
>> - VODEV]
>> - command += VODEVOPTS.split(' ')
>> + command += [ '-v', '-vo', config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV +
>> + config.MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS ]
>>
>> # mode specific args
>> command += config.MPLAYER_ARGS[mode].split(' ')
>>
>>
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