[MPlayer-users] MPLAYER GOING DOWNHILL ... i.e. Windows Vista playback problems

[Reimar Döffinger]

I repeat: please try to quote in a way that makes your mails not a pain
to read. Using a mailer that does not break threading would be a really
big plus, too.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 02:44:18PM -0500, John Smith wrote:
>>   As said rc2 is much too old for this to work. Unfortunately I know of
>>   nobody who provides sufficiently new builds for Windows currently as
>>   the
>>   whole MinGW toolchain seems to have serious issues currently.
> 
> I hope the powers that may be rise up to fix this important product.

Well, this the wrong list for that, we can neither fix MinGW/gcc nor can
we fix ATI's drivers. The problems you have are not our fault, there is
only so much we can hack around the issues.

> I think it is strange hi-def discs cannot even be played proper...
> as well as more
> than 6 channel audio which is more typical than unusual in the
> modern world (these days).

Given that I encountered no single file with more than 6 channels it can
not be that common. Also except for some audio filters there is no
particular reason why it should not work, it just was never tested.

> I think it is bad a same video file plays 20 times slower with the
>   same memory and
> same CPU on Vista over XP no matter what you do.

No, that is not accurate. It plays so slow because you are using OpenGL
with an ATI card.

> It sounds like maybe these bugs are being fixed or
> aware of by reading this forum.... but
> I hope RC2 is followed up by a RC3 or a official 1.0 soon.

I doubt it, but your problem is already fixable (only ATI's 8.9 drivers
are a nearly unfixable problem on Windows right now).
Get e.g. the MPlayer version here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248631&release_id=614242
use
-vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack
and if it still does not work, install the 8.7 or 8.8 ATI drivers.
Unfortunately it is impossible to use ATI and NVidia cards together
(what a mess once more! And also not MPlayer's fault ;-) ) otherwise
I would suggest to just buy an additional cheap NVidia card for video stuff.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger