Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to merit switching. Mplayer2 installs in parallel, so try them both. I moved to mplayer2 some time ago, before the name-change to mplayer2. I've had fewer issues with it than with mplayer but your mileage may vary. After a quick comparison I'd say they use about the same amount of CPU but mplayer still has problems with fontconfig freezing the video for a few seconds whenever fonts change in subtitles. This can be a real problem when subtitles contain a lot of UTF8 extended characters not actually found in the selected font. You also see a lot of Glyf not found in font, choosing another font warnings. Mplayer2 doesn't have this problem as it shifts fontconfig into another thread. Mplayer itself isn't multithreaded yet, just ffmpeg. Mplayer2 also handles mkv chapters, which aren't really all that useful anyway. So I'd say just install mplayer2, add threads=5 to your config and try them both.
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to merit switching. Mplayer2 installs in parallel, so try them both. I moved to mplayer2 some time ago, before the name-change to mplayer2. I've had fewer issues with it than with mplayer but your mileage may vary. After a quick comparison I'd say they use about the same amount of CPU but mplayer still has problems with fontconfig freezing the video for a few seconds whenever fonts change in subtitles. This can be a real problem when subtitles contain a lot of UTF8 extended characters not actually found in the selected font. You also see a lot of Glyf not found in font, choosing another font warnings. Mplayer2 doesn't have this problem as it shifts fontconfig into another thread. Mplayer itself isn't multithreaded yet, just ffmpeg. Mplayer2 also handles mkv chapters, which aren't really all that useful anyway. So I'd say just install mplayer2, add threads=5 to your config and try them both. I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more.
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I have it in the tree here: [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer2-2.0 (0) [-P-] [M ] media-video/mplayer2- (0) They are masked but it is there. Is that the same one? While I am at it, is the plain mplayer going to be phased out and the new mplayer2 take its place? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I only have 2, but I may try it anyway. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2
On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote: On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor) parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file. I've only got 4 processors so I set it to threads=4. You have an i7, so it should handle more. I just tried it also. Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously, but now they are playing smoothly ;-) So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement. After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin.. - du yang -- oooO: (..): :\.(:::Oooo:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/
