Microsoft DVR-MS video container support request

yup, i'v already applied the mplayer demuxer part, and getting ready to make prelim mplayer our standard. I'm abit hessitant to update lavf/lavc in at the moment since that could break other things, so it will not contain the fix for now, but that shouldn't matter too much.

John Donaghy Wrote:Jon Elwood (DVRMSToolbox) has been creating Windows builds of MPlayer with my changes as well as a few of his own tweaks. You can download a prebuilt binary here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GODTUZ2H

Jon told me that the original link is broken. Here's one that should work:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GODTUZ2H

(Can I edit my posts?)

elupus Wrote:yup, i'v already applied the mplayer demuxer part, and getting ready to make prelim mplayer our standard. I'm abit hessitant to update lavf/lavc in at the moment since that could break other things, so it will not contain the fix for now, but that shouldn't matter too much.

That's great news. We dont really need lavf demuxer to play dvr-ms files. Things like seeking dont work as well in dvr-ms files plus I've seen it crash on samples that the native demuxer handles fine. The only advantage it has currently are:

• a/v syncing is slightly better in some circumstances - sync sometime goes out with the native demuxer but it recovers in a few seconds
• my recent lavf patch means that it can detect audio better but I'm working on porting that to the native demuxer and should have a patch for you soon
  

The megaupload link says that the file is unavailable.

I have been trying for the last 3 days to compile a win32 binary under mingw but all I get is undefined references complains.

I Svn'ed the latest from mplayer.hq.hu and the error references are in :

libavcodec/libavcodec.a(parser.o):parser.c.text+0xec4): undefined reference to `ff_ac3_freqs'.

I cannot find where ff_ac3**** calls are implemented. They are defined on the source as extern subroutines (extern const uint16_t ff_ac3_freqs[3];)

But, what library or package implements them ?

fvfv Wrote:The megaupload link says that the file is unavailable.

I have been trying for the last 3 days to compile a win32 binary under mingw but all I get is undefined references complains.

I Svn'ed the latest from mplayer.hq.hu and the error references are in :

libavcodec/libavcodec.a(parser.o):parser.c.text+0xec4): undefined reference to `ff_ac3_freqs'.

I cannot find where ff_ac3**** calls are implemented. They are defined on the source as extern subroutines (extern const uint16_t ff_ac3_freqs[3];)

But, what library or package implements them ?

Oops, I sent you the wrong link. Sorry. This should work but if not let me know. Building mplayer isnt straightforward if you havent done it before. Plus, large file support is broken in MINGW but I know Jon's version includes a workaround for that.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=61SK2JIK

Thanks a lot !!!!

This version plays dvr-ms, same as the xbox. There are still some sync problems and shuttering, but I guess this is to be expected from cutting edge development.

How do I keep up with development ?

Will new changes be reflected on this thead or is there anywhere else I can get news on new changes , straight from the mplayer developers ?

Thanks for your support.

fvfv Wrote:Thanks a lot !!!!

This version plays dvr-ms, same as the xbox. There are still some sync problems and shuttering, but I guess this is to be expected from cutting edge development.

How do I keep up with development ?

Will new changes be reflected on this thead or is there anywhere else I can get news on new changes , straight from the mplayer developers ?

Thanks for your support.

I occasionally post fixes to the Mplayer developers list if you want to monitor that. I havent seen anyone else send patches for dvr-ms in quite a while.

I'm always interested in samples that dont play well so if you want to post a short clip to somewhere like megaupload.com I'd appreciate it, plus it'll increases your chances of getting it working properly. About a minute in length with people talking is good enough.

I just got a 2 minute recording off an ATI HDTV Wonder.

Here is the link

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8B0XFH2M

It plays out of sync as it starts and then it fixes itself.

John. I was wondering if you could help me here.

I would like to be able to implement what xbmc does when pressing the "Enter" button on the DVD Remote, which causes mplayer to cycle thru different aspect-ratios. I know that mplayer has the "c" command, which supposedly cycles on "fullscreenmode", but is only available with the -vo sdl output driver.

I have not been able to get mplayer with sdl on windows. Is there any other way I can accomplish this on the current svn mplayer, that is, cycle aspect rations with a key press ?

Thanks.

that isn't done using mplayer, that our video output that does the cycling. and no there is no such function in mplayer on windows. you have to specify aspect on commandline.