[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer & DD5.1 via SPDIF - I have only DD2.0: why ?

[The Wanderer]

On 12/28/2005 04:51 PM, Sasza wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> What's more, looking back at your original post, you are apparently
>> using MPlayer 1.0pre6. 1.0pre7try2 (the most recent actual
>> release) is considered ancient enough that very little support is
>> provided for it; there have certainly been numerous changes since
>> 1.0pre6, and it is very possible that any problem you are having
>> has been fixed in the process. Please consider switching to a more
>> recent version.
>
> Thx for trying help !
> I suspected that it might be problem of old version of mplayer. So at
> the begining I issued:
> apt-get update
> apt-get install mplayer
> Result:
> "Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> mplayer is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 349 not upgraded."
> This lead me to believe that I have most recent version - but it
> looks like not :-(.

Indeed. MPlayer is not ordinarily distributed via Debian package, and
the packages are (varyingly) not supported here AFAIR. In order to get
the most recent versions, you need to install from source. (Or from RPM,
perhaps - I believe that there are more recent versions maintained by
one of the developers, although my unreliable memory does not say
which.)

> Q: I use EPIA (Via Unichrome CLE266 GPU) & MythTV R5A22
> If I will upgrade to 1.0pre7 - what about VIA hw acceleration ? Is
> XvMC for VIA Unichrome build-in into mplayer or somewhere else ?

XvMC video output can be used in MPlayer, but is very limited in some
ways. I don't use it myself, so I can't really tell you more than that.

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