[Mplayer-users] new ffmpeg/libavcodec

[Christoph Lampert]

Hi,

mplayer has many many many many more options than it prints with -h 
(or even are in the manpage). Not many of them are needed my users, though.
-vc might be. 

gruel


>mdew at storm:~/X_Men/XMen$ mplayer
>
>
>MPlayer 0.17cvs-010725-21:10(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy <arpi at thot.banki.hu>
>
>Usage:   mplayer [options] [path/]name
>
>Options:
> -vo <drv[:dev]> select video output driver & device (see '-vo help' for list)
> -ao <drv[:dev]> select audio output driver & device (see '-ao help' for list)
> -vcd <trackno>  play VCD (video cd) track from device instead of plain file
> -dvdauth <dev>  specify DVD device for authentication (for encrypted discs)
> -ss <timepos>   seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
> -nosound        don't play sound
> -stereo         select MPEG1 stereo output (0:stereo 1:left 2:right)
> -fs -vm -zoom   fullscreen playing options (fullscr,vidmode chg,softw.scale)
> -x <x> -y <y>   scale image to <x> * <y> resolution [if -vo driver supports!]
> -sub <file>     specify subtitle file to use (see also -subfps, -subdelay)
> -vid x -aid y   options to select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
> -fps x -srate y options to change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
> -pp <quality>   enable postprocessing filter (0-4 for DivX, 0-63 for mpegs)
> -bps            use alternative A-V sync method for AVI files (may help!)
> -framedrop      enable frame-dropping (for slow machines)
>
>no -vc i can see....what needs configuring?
>
>> > 
>> > > Hi,
>> > > 
>> > > Gerard Lantau just merged & fixed some things of libavcodec
>> > > in ffmpeg's CVS to get it working well wiht MPlayer.
>> > > I didn't updated (or removed) old version in MPlayer tree, because
>> > > it may contains some optimization not yet merged into ffmpeg tree.
>> > > (I hope that Nick will do it soon)
>> > > 
>> > > Please try the new lib! It plays those problematic fivx files
>> > > which are wrong with old libavcodec and projectmayo's divx4linux.
>> > > 
>> > > 1. get latest mplayer from cvs.
>> > 
>> > done..
>> > 
>> > > 2. get ffmpeg from cvs:
>> > >     cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg 
login
>> > >        (press enter for password)
>> > >     cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg 
co ffmpeg
>> > 
>> > done..
>> > 
>> > > 3. replace libavcodec dir in mplayer tree with the new one from ffmpeg 
tree.
>> > >    warning: symlink is NOT enough! (include ../config.mak will point to
>> > >    ffmpeg's config.mak instead of mplayer's config.mak if you're using 
symlink)
>> > >    so, copy/move libavcodec to mplayer.
>> > > 4. compile mplayer:  ./configure ; make
>> > 
>> > same..
>> > 
>> > how do you get the option -vc ...i dont seem to see it in the latest CVS
>> 
>> 
>>        -vc <name>
>>               force usage of a specific video codec, according to
>>               its name in codecs.conf, for example :
>>                   -vc divx       use VFW DivX codec
>>                   -vc divxds     use DirectShow DivX codec
>>                   -vc ffdivx     use libavcodec's DivX codec
>>                   -vc divx4      use ProjectMayo's DivX codec
>> 
>> 
>> works fine for me :) (except Linux-only divx4)
>> 
>> 
>> best regards
>> 
>> hmm today.ffmpeg.CVS is sloooooooow :( ( about 40% slower than
>> yesterday.ffmpeg.CVS)
>> 
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