[Mplayer-users] 0.18pre4 released with native divx codec :)

[Felix Bьnemann]

Hello Nick,

Friday, July 06, 2001, 12:41:34 PM, you wrote:

NK> Hi, Arpi!

NK> On 2001-07-06 05:42:42 you wrote:

>>Just made 0.18pre4 public.
>>
>>News:
>>
>>- new switch to workaroudn window manager bugs: -fsmod <n>
>> (try n value 0-7)
>>
>>- included libavcodec from Gerard Lantau's FFmpeg package
>>  it has native (not Win32 hack) DivX ;-) and OpenDivX codec!
>>  I made some measurements, and DivX seems to be even faster
>>  than DirectShow codec without preprocessing, and only a few
>>  percent slower than ProjectMayo's opendivx decoder.
>>  It uses YV12 pixel format, so old Voodoo users can use it for YUV.
>>
>>If you have problems compiling it (it requires nasm, for example)
>>then simply rename or delete the libavcodec subdirectory and
>>re-run ./configure
>>(compiler/environment detection has not been done for libavcodec)
>>

NK> Good news! But it seems that new codec is useless for me.
NK> Sample of mplayer output:


NK> MPlayer 0.17cvs-010706-09:13(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy <arpi at thot.banki.hu>

NK> Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 15 audio & 32 video codecs
NK> Font /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (117 chars)
NK> Detected AVI file format!
==>> Found video stream: 0
==>> Found audio stream: 1
NK> VIDEO:  [DIV3]  640x480  24bpp  23.98 fps  800.2 kbps (97.7 kbyte/s)
NK> [V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x33564944  size:640x480  fps:23.98  ftime:=0.0417
NK> Found audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
NK> dec_audio: Allocating 4608 + 65536 = 70144 bytes for output buffer
NK> mp3lib: Processor ID: 631
NK> mp3lib: Using AMD 3dnow-dsp(k7)! optimized decore.
NK> AUDIO: srate=48000  chans=2  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 12000->192000
NK> Found video codec: [divxds] drv:4 (DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))
NK> Loading DLL: /usr/lib/win32/divx_c32.ax  OK
NK> Using DirectShow codec: divx_c32.ax
^^^^^^^^^
That's divx direct show codec, not ffmpegs one, change your codecs
conf (ie. uncomment divxds andf vfw or put ffmpeg one first in list
(maybe you didn't update codecs.conf at all?).

NK> Is new codec in the same state as odivx or problems in my Videocard?
NK> Altrough I used -vo null for this sample.

NK> Best regards! Nick (2001-07-06 10:36:59)


-- 
Best regards,
 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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