[MPlayer-users] rec for wnXP

[Adam]

On Friday 11 July 2008 03:25 pm, Henry Garcia wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend which pre-compiled package(s)
> > I should look at first, for maximal MPlayer and MEncoder
> > functionality.   Most important is VOB -> AVI transcode,
> > then single frame grab, VOB dump audio to file.
> >
> > Am on Intel with Win XP .
>
> Pentium III, Pentium IV,
>
> Take a  look here. See what you like.
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#windows
> _______________________________________________

I grabbed the one from the top of the list;

MPlayer on win32  by  Gianluigi Tiesi
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
MPlayer-p4-svn-27081.7z 

There are no Win specific instructions with that package. 

When I unpack, I notice the codecs directory is empty. 
Although -vo help outputs a short list of things. See below.  

When I try to play a dvd, I get various failures. So have not been 
able to play one yet.  Depending on the contents of the conf file, 
it either plays the dvd intro poorly first, then stops. Or plays only 
audio and no video. 

Presently my conf file contains, 
quiet=yes 
msgcolor=yes 
dvd-device=e:
cache=8192
ao=win32      # which improved matters greatly
vf=pp,eq,spp,scale  
# variations on vf= makes slight changes, but none plays. 

My Intel P4 machine has a twinhead Matrox Millenium G550 card, 
working at 1024x768 pixels. The one-page manual says that that 
should work with -vo mga_vid     

So must I install a Win version of that codec in codecs ? 
I unpacked the file win32codecs-20040703.tar.bz2  into codecs, 
but perhaps mga_vid is in the win-essential-codecs pack ? 

Here are some outputs; 

mplayer dvd://1

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27081-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Playing dvd://1.
There are 11 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   Cache fill:  
8.30% (696320 bytes)   
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  9000.0 kbps (1125.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/14.58% (ratio: 28000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [win32] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
a52: CRC check failed!  
a52: CRC check failed!  
a52: CRC check failed!  

Exiting... (Quit)



mplayer -vo help

MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r27081-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Available video output drivers:
	directx	Directx DDraw YUV/RGB/BGR renderer
	gl	X11 (OpenGL)
	gl2	X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
	matrixview	MatrixView (OpenGL)
	caca	libcaca
	null	Null video output
	mpegpes	Mpeg-PES file
	yuv4mpeg	yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
	png	PNG file
	jpeg	JPEG file
	gif89a	animated GIF output
	tga	Targa output
	pnm	PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
	md5sum	md5sum of each frame

Any help appreciated.