Mplayer 1.0 Pre 8 Alpha1 Released

[EvilDragon]

Waninkoko released a new port of MPlayer. Not based on the GPH version but on the latest PC version.
Plays xVids and MPG already, but it's still in an alpha state.

Download: MPlayer 1.0 pre 8 Alpha1 released
News Source: http://www.gp32spain.com

 

[Wite_Noiz]

Excellent! Is he (she?) planning on making it a drop-in replacement for the GP2X version, so that it will run from the video menu?

 

[Lettuce Dude]

Lookin pretty good.

 

[Shikaku]

Excellent! Is he (she?) planning on making it a drop-in replacement for the GP2X version, so that it will run from the video menu?

It's probably as simple as finding where it is and making a script to copy it to that spot...

I can make that really quick, but it's pointless now because of the alpha status.

 

[garengarch]

Great work, thanks for this

 

[aapje89]

This is the start to something big

 

[K0K0NUT_h3lmut]

Yes...it's the start of something big.
8===D Alpha
8========D Beta
8=========D~~~ Finished



xVids yay! Any reports on how well this works? i would test xVids right now, but i only have 10 minutes till i go to work.

 

[Wite_Noiz]

It's probably as simple as finding where it is and making a script to copy it to that spot...

I can make that really quick, but it's pointless now because of the alpha status.

Possibly. I know where the mplayer is, but I'd read about people saying the way it interracted with the GP2X menu was funky weird

 

[emumanx]

errr? why is it coming up as GNGEO? and acts just lke the GNGEO ? is it a fake?
all i get is a black screen when i pick a video of any kind. (strange) and it has GNGEO frontend too

 

[sephiroth111]

now, assuming the merger (or at least looking at the interface code) of the GPH and the Mplayer alpha it shouldn't be that hard to replace the actual mplayer.

 

[Sonic-NKT]

it uses the same selector as gngeo and just uses also the same background...
it has nothing to do with mplayer, but i have the same problem, it doesnt work, just gives me a black screen after selecting any kind of file.

 

[djchk]

You have to wait a while...it's very slow loading the videos. Once they are loaded they play really slow...maybe 1-2 frames per second.

 

[nubie]

now, assuming the merger (or at least looking at the interface code) of the GPH and the Mplayer alpha it shouldn't be that hard to replace the actual mplayer.

pthhhsfff. Yes, you heard me. I don't give a crap how you run it, but for the love of god get it to use the hardware MMSP2 video Decoder/Encoder processing core(see my sig, first link, there are like 5-6 cores in the chip, 2 ARM9's a couple video processors, a 2d blitter a post processor, etc. There is a picture too.)

Apologies if it is already accelerated with the hardware decoder, but i sincerely doubt that is the case this early in the game. (to clear up further that is NOT the second ARM, it is another core for MPEG2 Divx, and general video math.)

 

[nickspoon]

If it's not accelerated, then it'll only play movies as fast as FFPlay does now, maximum.

 

[nubie]

If it's not accelerated, then it'll only play movies as fast as FFPlay does now, maximum.

Exactly, but cheers for the work, it can only help us get a real accelerated version sometime down the road.

 

[chipan]

If it's not accelerated, then it'll only play movies as fast as FFPlay does now, maximum.

Exactly, but cheers for the work, it can only help us get a real accelerated version sometime down the road.

In the spanish forums where waninkoko is used to post; there is an explanation of the way to get the player working quicker and some stuff about a paralel work on the same player by uncanny; they reached fullspeed in some videos.

 

[Eso Rimmer]

I've tried 320x240 mpeg-1 video with 1024kbit/s and it plays 1-2 fps like some said here already.

 

[nubie]

some videos.

Okay, that was some helpful information. Some Videos doesn't tell us anything, I am sure it already goes fullspeed on an uncompressed 50x50 AVI.

I have many Ideas on full speed, did they mention at all the fact that there is a HARDWARE DECODER?

That means a special chip inside the GP2X whose only job is to make Divx play full-speed (AND MPEG2 and etc.)

I would just use that, it is impossible for a VIA mini-ITX @533mhz or 600mhz to do full-speed Divx at TV-Res (I just built 2 of them, and sold them again cause they couldn't do the Divx) how can we expect 2x ARM9's @ 200mhz to do better?

There is a real movie chip in this, I hope that is what is being discussed on those forums, any USEFUL information you could give us would be nice, I guess I will head over there armed with Babelfish.altavista and give it a read.

Anyone have a clue why no english speaking person is doing the video players and stuff? I would like information on things but there are precious few poeple on both boards to send the info back and forth.


Edit: Thanks I guess, now I will go read them for myself and bring back the information for those curious .

 

[nickspoon]

I'm English, from England, so that makes me even more English, and I'm looking at the MPlayer stuff. It seems trivial to convert it into a library so a programmer could merely build it in and play fullspeed DivX in their program. I should be able to get MPEG/MPEG-2 to work also, but no promises.

 

[nubie]

I'm English, from England, so that makes me even more English, and I'm looking at the MPlayer stuff. It seems trivial to convert it into a library so a programmer could merely build it in and play fullspeed DivX in their program. I should be able to get MPEG/MPEG-2 to work also, but no promises.

Sweet, I love the sound of using this to full-speed render a movie onto a polygon surface as a texture .

Here is news via Babelfish from Uncanny: post in gp32spain.com

That if, I do not see that it uses codecs "extra" (in fact they use less and older versions), so if is able to use the same functions and the use of the acceleration and process of video by hardware that uses the MPlayer of the GP2X in a more modern MPlayer (like which we are proving) would obtain to the same or greater quality level and fluidity of reproduction, better support of codecs (as one is well, WMV1/2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, H.264, etc.), presumably greater stability, and some extras more (for example, in my port of MPlayer I can reduce or to increase the brightness, resists and other values of video).

He seems to be saying something about the source uses old versions of the codecs yet seems to be accelerated fine, so maybe the port he is making or "proving" can achieve full compatability and not freeze or crash like the current GPH one does now . AND, greater functionality "(for example, in my port of MPlayer I can reduce or to increase the brightness, resists and other values of video)"

I also like this post, just for the interesting language that Spanish is to me. By _ Deu _ via Babelfish on gp32spain.com

As they already comment by above, gentlemen, unite their forces and remove the definitive reproducer for GP2X.

Greetings.

Edit:

They say that FHM magazine has run a piece on it and claim it is for hackers, here is titerote's excellent response to that :

Then clear that it is the console of hackers: of the people to whom it likes to program, to prove all the possibilities of the console, to take it to where was not thought of factory, etc. - > Hacker

How Rude FHM, and at least some of them ask why sexy women would want to make us buy a GP2X . I don't think a sexy woman would make me want a GP2X.