FFmpeg: New Official Mplayer, Mplayer 1.0pre5 Released

[rds_correia]

Greetings,
The Official MPlayer team has recently released an update for one of the best movie player/encoder in the face of earth.
It was baptized MPlayer 1.0pre5.
Visit the MPlayer site at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/.
Download 1.0pre5 at http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/.
Have fun

[kwag]

Thanks Rui

-kwag

[Prodater64]

The Official MPlayer team has recently released an update MPlayer/Mencoder. It is not in main page, but changelog file refers to it as pre6

When install it take a look and install drivers in MPlayer\Drivers\ folder for full windows functionality.

http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...CVS-041104.zip

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Originally Posted by Changelog file.............................................. .....

Player (1.0)

pre6:

Security:
* buffer overflow in mp3lib fixed
* many memleaks fixed

DOCS:
* finally all options are documented
* man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity
* all audio output driver suboptions documented
* all video output driver suboptions documented
* XviD documentation completed
* French man page in sync again
* German man page updated
* new Czech and Swedish man page translations
* fixes and updates in various places

Ports:
* full x86_64 support
* -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver
* key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver
* "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset
* fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution
* VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)
* fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW
* support for -rootwin in the DirectX video output driver
* improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver
* new DirectSound audio output driver
* support for ZetaOS (mostly working)
* mouse support in Windows

Drivers:
* fixes in the VESA video output driver
* JPEG video output driver suboptions
* improvements for Blinkenlights
* JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes
* OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with :manyfmts)
* aspect, panscan, Hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver
* new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5
* alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver
* ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3
* support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver
* jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories

Decoders:
* "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)
* libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b
* libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot
* DTS decoding via lavc
* Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Picture Codec support via binary DLL
* VDOWave video support via binary DLL
* Miro VideoXL video support via lavc
* Creative ADPCM audio support via lavc or binary DLL
* IBM Ultimotion video support via lavc
* Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL
* H.261 video codec support via lavc
* TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via lavc
* sonic audio codec support via lavc
* snow video codec support via lavc
* QuickDraw video support via lavc
* Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg

Demuxers:
* fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV
* subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska
* support .vp5 file format (AVI variant)
* seeking for audio-only ASF files fixed
* improved MP3 detection
* AVC in .mp4 files
* raw H.261 files via lavf
* improved seeking precision in MPEG files
* better subtitle language code handling for MKV files

Streaming:
* -cache-min and -cache-prefill options added
* compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions
* make ASF without ECC work
* support for MMS on non-standard port
* EOF detected in Real RTSP streams

FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* reduced resolution decoding
* new experimental wavelet-based snow video codec
* new sonic audio codec
* TechSmith Camtasia video decoder
* IBM Ultimotion video decoder
* QuickDraw video decoder
* Creative ADPCM decoder
* Miro VideoXL decoder
* Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder
* Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer
* H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder
* fix VIS accelerated code
* DTS support via libdts
* many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files
* support AAC in MOV files
* RV10 fixes
* AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support
* iTunes metadata support
* HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing)
* SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function
* epzs motion search enhancements
* quad tree based motion compensation
* MPEG4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
* H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
* AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support
* H.264 qpel motion compensation
* Indeo3 grayscale decoding
* preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder
* avizlib encoder fixed
* trellis quantization support in H.263
* DCT optimizations
* AltiVec support on AmigaOS4
* adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64
* seeking fixes
* better and faster audio resampler
* New dc1394 grabbing interface
* preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames
* dvr-ms suport in ASF demuxer
* MJPEG-B fixes
* range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by snow and ffv1
* ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes
* as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations

Filters:
* software volume control when no hardware support
* high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample
* cropdetect rounding parameter
* missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters
* sine sweep generator audio filter
* big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter
* yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes

Others:
* -loop and -shuffle now work together
* GUI unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA
* GUI redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case
* x264 encoder support
* better EDL support
* some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2)
* framestepping
* changeable playback speed
* some crashes with binary codecs fixed
* subtitle alignment support for SAMI files
* MEncoder can encode MP2 with libtoolame
* MPlayer -af help
* also support Windows path separator '\'
* lavc "turbo mode" to speed up 2-pass encoding
* support for 3-pass encode for lavc and x264
* XviD encoder and decoder frontend updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x)
* flush remainig frames at end of encoding process
* VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed
* VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga
* VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes
* CLE266 VIDIX driver
* -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions
* FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles
* -crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes
* gcc 4 compilation fixes
* compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory

[Prodater64]

Pre6 officially released.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

[Encoder Master]

Pre7 released.

Same link as above.

[Zyphon]

Did any1 read the distressing news on the Main Homepage about the EU software patents threatending free programs like Mplayer and FFMpeg and the other's mentioned.

This will be a sad day indeed if it were to come about.

[Encoder Master]

I see we can set the dc precision with commandlines. This is very good. I made some tests and the quality looks very good but I don't know the rate control problem. But what means this:

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FFmpeg/libavcodec:
RV20 fixes
many H.264 fixes
B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support
a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes
32 bit RGB support in TSCC
multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4)
3g2 support
ALAC audio decoder
LOCO video decoder
WNV1 video decoder
shorten audio decoder and demuxer
AASC video decoder
AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders
significantly faster snow decoding
experimental ratecontrol for snow
countless bug fixes all over the place

EDIT: I cant' see any peaks at the moment. Also nice new feature: Multipass encoding. But 3 passes is the best. Tested with 10 passes.

[Encoder Master]

Hey guys.

I've a question:

On the MPlayer homepage I can download the normal Pre version and new the CVS version. What is better for me? Where are the differences?

Thank you.

[rds_correia]

Hi EM ,
This is a pretty much "dead" part of the forum, right?
Not much people still testing ffmpeg or ffmpeg based encoders.
MEncoder used to be updated almost every hour.
And a new build (CVS) would be automatically generated everyday.
But there used to be problems with the CVS because it wouldn't be properly tested.
So to go on the safe side, go with the Pre version.
Cheers

[Encoder Master]

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This is a pretty much "dead" part of the forum, right?

Yes, I know. But hope MEncoder will be stable in the future.

Thank you for your answer. This help me a lot.

[Dialhot]

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Originally Posted by Encoder Master

[Yes, I know. But hope MEncoder will be stable in the future.

Obviously not in the MPEG2/MPEG1 part. People a more focused on more attractive (for their eyes) codecs. But I did not check since a long time.

[Encoder Master]

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Obviously not in the MPEG2/MPEG1 part.

Oh, this aren't good news. But in this version there are so many new things for MPEG-2 so I thought it will be more stable.

[rds_correia]

@EM,
They used to release a lot of fixes to addressed to MPEG2.
But when you went to look closely most of them were directly related to MPEG4 similar issues.
Last time I checked there was still a BIG bug in the ratecontrol and VBV buffer providing lot's of overflows on specific cases...
But I'll try to find sometime to check this Pre.
Cheers

[Encoder Master]

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Last time I checked there was still a BIG bug in the ratecontrol and VBV buffer providing lot's of overflows on specific cases...

Yes this is/was one big problem so I tested the new versions of MEncoder.

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But I'll try to find sometime to check this Pre.

I hope.


The newest Pre version looks very good. At the moment I have no buffer overflows or to high peaks. I like that I can do a DC Precision and more then 2 passes.