[OFFICIAL] MPlayer.dll development branch feedback.

Been testing these new builds out against various streams from my STRM pack lately. 01/07/2007 and 01/08/2007 revisions seem to have borked streaming video (mms://) a bit; connects fine and stops, going back to the menu.

Reverted back to the first experimental revision for now -- it helped fix a ton of demuxing issues indeed. I'm grateful.

right, could you give me a sample stream?

<edit> never mind, fixed now. new dll available </edit>

elupus, thanks a ton and I'll check it out tonight. Have there been any voice sync issues in streams other than RealMedia that anyone else has noticed? (I'll look into this more tonight on some WindowsMedia streams -- I've noticed a slight delay now and then on some of them (like RTR Planeta (240k) in Russia).

Really looking forward to your continued work on mplayer. Meanwhile, my STRM pack if you need any to test can be found at http://www.op9.net/files/XBMC/XBMC-TV.zip -- hope this helps, and I don't mean this link to advertise. There's a ton of different kinds in there to test with.

vanadium Wrote:like RTR Planeta (240k) in Russia).

Actually, a better example would be MIR TV Russia: mms://213.232.226.11/MIRTV_300

Rabomil Wrote:In some cases I get strange artefacts when I'm using lavdopts=skiploopfilter=all. The actual situation is worse than the picture shows. By changing the the line to lavdopts=skiploopfilter=bidir, the artefacts are gone. Too bad that only the deblocking of b-frames will be skipped then.

still, just having lavdopts=skiploopfilter=bidir as an option (or default for H.264) might be an acceptable compromise(?)

Works great on h.264 so long as it's not packaged with AAC audio, and with AC3 it still drops a few frames. Seems like with some heavy optimization of AAC and a liittle tweaking of AC3 all could run smoothly on alot of h.264 files without even having to optimize the h.264 codec any more.

I found another bug:

I have some AVIs with external subtitle-files.

Like

Movie.avi
Movie.idx
Movie.sub

The subs are not displayed with the new mplayer-build.

I have no clue what feature of the newer version of mplayer allows playing through corrupted videos, but I have several videos that work fine in mplayer for win32. In XBMC these videos always skip over about 5 minutes or they simply stop playback completely. Here is a link to the log file from one of the videos that skips 5 minutes:

http://pastebin.ca/312627

Hopefully this will be helpful to a developer because I don't understand it. All I know is that this and other videos have similar problems in XBMC but not in any video player I've tried in Windows.

joe4444:
so could you tell how the new mplayer.dll does on those in comparison to old? that is really the only thing i'm interested in at this stage.

mironicus:
yea, noticed. if you are able to select another subtitle then they start showing up. ie a srt or maybe even another stream on the same..... hmm odd now they always show up. might know why..

I've done some more testing, and it appears the issue is actually related to an error in the FTP, although I'm not sure if it's XBMC or my client. Apparently when transferring some video files to my xbox they were corrupted. I verified this by running a checksum on the video files. The ones with problems do not match the originals I downloaded.

Sorry!