Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:58:37 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <20091229195837.GC66391@e.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0912291103q41c5731av7463994ff9d071dc@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912130841040.19087@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> <4B38F3BB.3020303@fstaals.net> <20091229143152.l2g246ti808w8cw0@0x20.net> <4B3A44DF.6080904@fstaals.net> <3f1fd1ea0912291103q41c5731av7463994ff9d071dc@mail.gmail.com>
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--QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:21PM +0100, Michal Varga wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net> wrote: > > On 12/29/09 14:31, Lars Engels wrote: > >> > >> Quoting Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net>: > >> > >>> I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy ne= ed > >>> the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solutio= n. > >> > >> > >> Are there any killer features missing in our old version from ports? > > > > I don't really know. The reason that I used svn snapshots in the past w= as > > that my machine in combination with the mplayer port was unable to deco= de > > relatively high res h264 video while with the svn version there were so= me > > improvements which did make it possible. But that is a long time ago. > > > Related to that, VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ) is > definitely "the killer feature", though I'm not sure how well (and if) > it works on FreeBSD. For what I know, it works miracles on Linux > (well, at least Linux people say that). Quick google turned out this, > so I guess it's a start: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D4756 >=20 > For anything else "killer-grade", I'm not really sure, but since the > dawn of time, mplayer code base has always been a bit flaky (well, "a > bit" itself is a bit too generous here). I guess all of us keep at > least one other "backup" movie player (Gnome's Totem, XINE before > that, etc.) for files that make mplayer die horribly in a ball of fire > (recent youtube formats, I'm looking at you!) and vice versa - so one > can reasonably assume that sticking to a 3-year old code base is not > the very best we could do here and in the long term, unmanageable. It > will only get worse.. 4 years? 5 years? Eventually other apps that use > mplayer as their backend will start to fail, dtto various mencoder > frontends (I'd say 'video editing software', if we only had any), and > we will get stuck with gstreamer-powered crap (ok, not exactly bad, > but even now in 2009, it's light years far from anything that 3-year > old mplayer can do, and, you know, even a bad timed sneeze or an > unfavorable lunar phase can make Totem crash). Thanks a lot for the information on the new features. I hope we can find a solution to use the svn version. --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks6X20ACgkQKc512sD3afjXpgCggsH/FOsFRVndBlygFpZ9smKn y0kAoMZMHCsEK1JjTu8i94BLHYjl6UhQ =mexq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QRj9sO5tAVLaXnSD--
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