On 07/07/2010 08:46 PM, Grant wrote:
Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay
that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt :
media-video/mplayer-uau.
It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates
a binary called "mplayer-uau" which can be installed at the same time as
the official mplayer package.
I gave that a try and it smoothed everything right out, so I guess it
was a CPU issue after all. Thank you for your help. How is
mplayer-uau different from mplayer-mt? Maybe mplayer-mt can't be
mplayer from multimedia overlay is a replacement for the regular,
official mplayer with the only change being ffmpeg-mt. It can't be
installed alongside regular mplayer because it's a replacement and
multithreading can be enabled/disabled at runtime.
mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git",
before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown
reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt patch,
mplayer-uau adds more patches.
