MPlayer 1.5 released!

@Gregor
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First, glad to hear you go to working to your satisfaction!

I don't quite understand your statement above though. How do you lose use of the 0 and 9 keys. All your doing is translating the multimedia keycodes, so they send the same codes the 0 and 9 key produce. Basically, your adding additional 0 and 9 keys. The normal 0 and 9 keys aren't affected at all and still work as normal.

Anyway, Using the Arexx port works great as well, but be aware that it will only work on the first instance of MPlayer that is started. If you have MPlayer running twice, it won't work on the second instance. Also be aware that if MPlayer crashes or doesn't close right for some reason (which I have seen in the past), you will need to kill the MPlayer.1 Arexx port manually or reboot the system. If you just run MPlayer again it will see that the MPlayer.1 port is used and will use MPlayer.2 as the Arexx port. In which case your solution of using the MPlayer.1 port of course won't work. Of course you probably would rarely run into these situations, so it's not a big deal.

@ktadd
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Ah... I misunderstood how AllKeys does the translation, I thought it in the opposite way. Thanks for your clarification!-)

I recently needed some quick-to-use decoding of simple videos on AOS4.
It doesn't have a GUI but MEncoder is tan great and simply configurable , maybe it should be resurrected ?

@smarkusg
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I tried, unsuccessfully, a few times over the years to get someone to update Mendocer as I used to use it with SimpleSub. Being unsuccessful, I ended up convertine SImpleSub t use ffmpeg instead. What is is you want to do with mencoder that you can't do with ffmpeg? .....or is it just that Mencoder might be faster? (Not really sure if it is or not.)

@ktadd

First of all, thank you very much for all the help I got from you with our project.
Without your help, some of the bugs and caveats would not have made it to the new version of Mplayer.
Thank you again for your help

The ffmpeg libraries are currently used by probably all programs that play video files under AOS4.
It uses Emotion, Mplayer. FFmpeg and its libraries are number one in the world of open source video processing software.

Mencoder is geared toward converting video files. Some video codecs can be independent of ffmpeg or use its capabilities.
It also has its own CLI.
Some codecs from ffmpeg may not work properly with Mencoder.
Mencoder itself is a separate program. Mplayer does not need video and audio encoder to play files and when it is compiled, ffmpeg itself has them disabled.

FFmpeg is a powerful tool but in a way Mendocer can develop this under its profile.

I don't know why no one has tried to help you before regarding Mencoder.
It is possible , that it requires double work. You must have a working ffmpeg with video encoder and a working mplayer package.

In SimpleSub it seems to me that the use of ffmpeg is better and you made the right decision to have your program based on it.

Mencoder, if it has a simple GUI and unnecessary encodings disabled, can be a nice program for quick file conversion without delving into the ins and outs of the command line and ffmpeg codec options.

I hope I explained it sensibly

@smarkusg

I have in plan to test SPE SIMD units.
I looked into mplayer source and here is a tons of altivec code.
Pls, can you recommend me the simpliest example of use of altivec code in mplayer package?

I want learn how to make a SPE SIMD version for this.

@sailor
Maybe try some mp3 encoder , lame for starters.
A few months ago I tried to do something with the ffmpeg compilation from this guide
that you provided in that https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=147361#forumpost147361
But without the physical hardware, it's like a telephone consultation with an ophthalmologist I see nothing he sees nothing and you get a prescription sore throat even though you need glasses...

@smarkusgQuote:
good tip, thank you

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exactly.
I have physical hw, so I can test something. It is far from ideal, but better than telephone consultation

Probably best is, if I learn SPE SIMD and try to rework critical calculations suitable for vectors.

@Gregor

Hi Gregor,

Just catching up with threads and I saw the issue with the
MPlayer scripts.

I'm not sure exactly how you're calling the scripts, but if you
want to run the volume scripts, you could wrap the message code
in there with a check for the MPLayer port, like this:

---
if (showlist('p','MPLAYER.1')=1) then do
address MPLAYER.1
VOLUME '-1'
end
---

Of course, if you're using ARexx scripts, it wouldn't be much
of a leap to loop testing for more MPLayer ports and address the
highest numbered port (or maybe even the one that was playing,
if the MPlayer command set allowed).

Alternately, you could use a CLI command line like this to
simply send the VOLUME command directly to the first MPlayer
ARexx port without any script:

---
rx "address MPLAYER.1 VOLUME '-1'"
---

If the port isn't found, you should just get some feedback
about the host environment not found, etc.

Good luck,

PJS

I would like to watch a few TV streams via MPlayer, but no matter how I do it, it doesn't work. I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong or MPlayer simply lacks this function.

On https://gist.github.com/Axel-Erfurt/b4 ... 152e1c2f13259590a135e05f4 there are some TV streams online and I tried to pass them to MPlayer via the shell.

Output of the shell:



The transfer with MPlayer %u streaming address does not work either. The background of the whole thing is that a tool called Mediathek is currently being worked on. With this tool it is possible to watch TV streams and also recorded TV programs.

With Emotion/FFPlay there are no problems when running the live streams.

So if someone knows how to transfer the streams to MPlayer correctly I would be happy about it.

Any help will be appreciated.

@Maijestro

I tried one of the URLs with both MPlayer as well as FFmpeg's
ffplay and neither could play.

With MPlayer it just said "failed to play".

With ffplay it said "Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)".

It looks like a different kind of error than you described.
Maybe I'm geofenced from being able to watch German TV?

In any case, you might want to try the stream URL's with ffplay
instead of MPlayer. FWIW, live video streams on YouTube won't
play in MPlayer either.

Good luck,

PJS

@Maijestro

You can try to directly access the ffmpeg libraries from mplayer via ffmpeg:// and add -cache
It seems to me that this will not work anyway.
If you have the ability to use emotion or ffplay use these programs.

I have no way to check because these stream as "pjs" wrote is for my region/country is blocked.

Interestingly I don't get 403 and can wget the m3u8 but trying to play the URL with mplayer on x86 Linux results in the exact same error message that Maijestro posted above so I think it's not related to AmigaOS.

@balaton
The German government propaganda channels, financed by the "GEZ" taxes that have to be paid by every citizen, such as daserste.de and zdf.de, use geoblocking and can only be accessed from IP addresses within Germany.

@all

I've tested it a little further with FFPlayer and Emotion, there are no problems with TV streaming channels, but I just don't know how to pass it to MPlayer. Or if MPlayer simply lacks this support, YouTube streaming works without problems.

To understand the problems a little better, I recorded it. It can also be tested with English TV channels.

I will delete the video later so as not to slow down the thread.

@Maijestro

Thanks, what source do you use for English TV channels?

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@pjs

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Everything you have described applies exactly. I was just hoping to be able to use MPlayer as a direct player for live streams.

With FFPlay and Emotion it works and there are no problems.

Thank you

@samo79

Probably a stupid question but,

Is this the Mplayer we all use with MickJTMplayer player?

Also, I find Mplayer better to use than DV player or Emotion on a lesser powerful system, I can squeeze 4 music videos to play at once, dv palyer barely gets 2 going, and emotion can do 3 safely, all were mpeg, but still, point was made.

Please keep supporting and updating / upgrading when you see a need for it with this beautiful program.