On 07/08/2010 04:30 AM, 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.
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt
patches, or just ffmpeg-mt?
"mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt.
Do you know what other significant
patches mplayer-uau adds?
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