Agreed. Excellent work. using AUR package with SMPlayer svn.
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I seem to recall that the same guys who were the main driving force in the ffmpeg 'fork' also took over certain administrative parts of the mplayer project earlier. I can't help but wonder if mplayer2 is a fork by them or caused by them or non-related. I'll try digging up the blog posts were I read about this and see if I can get some sort of overview of what (if anything) is going on.
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Well, I don't like this fork very much because of these facts:
1) I've to use a statically linked ffmpeg (if using mplayer2-git), whereas I prefer to compile ffmpeg with my own options and dynamically link mplayer against shared ffmpeg.
2) Doesn't support vaapi, so it's useless for my Desktop with a HD4650AGP card. (I don't want to decode a 720p H264 video in a [email protected] using 100% of the CPU)
But other than that, I think the project can succeed.
Cheers
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Originally posted by brent View PostYou can link against your system ffmpeg just fine. The mplayer2-build repository is just meant to provide a self-contained mplayer that doesn't have any special dependencies. You don't have to use it.
How about compatibility with vaapi patches? Has anyone tried so far?
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Originally posted by timofonic View PostFirst FFMpeg got forked, then MPlayer too.
Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostI seem to recall that the same guys who were the main driving force in the ffmpeg 'fork' also took over certain administrative parts of the mplayer project earlier. I can't help but wonder if mplayer2 is a fork by them or caused by them or non-related. I'll try digging up the blog posts were I read about this and see if I can get some sort of overview of what (if anything) is going on.
Originally posted by Wyatt View PostWait, you can still build mplayer with gui support? And people USE it? What.
Originally posted by evolution View PostOh, I see!
How about compatibility with vaapi patches? Has anyone tried so far?
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You can always send a feature request on their bug tracker too (http://devel.mplayer2.org/wiki/Bugs).
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And now mplayer and mplayer2 both are forked. From the mpv-player site:
🎥 Command line video player. Contribute to mpv-player/mpv development by creating an account on GitHub.
Why this Fork?
MPlayer wants to maintain old code, even if it is very bad code. It seems mplayer2 was forked because MPlayer developers refused to get rid of all the cruft. The mplayer2 and MPlayer codebases also deviated enough to make a reunification unlikely.
mplayer2 development is slow, and it is hard to get in changes. Details withheld as to not turn this into a rant.
MPlayer rarely merged from mplayer2, and mplayer2 practically stopped merging from MPlayer (not even code cleanups or new features are merged)
mpv intends to continuously merge from mplayer-svn and mplayer2, while speeding up development. There is willingness for significant changes, even if this means breaking compatibility.
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