News
better support for 16-bit-per-component formats and formats with alpha channel better out-of-the-box support for compiling for ARM, IA64, MinGW32 and MinGW-w64, MinGW has ASLR enabled with recent enough binutils libdvdcss synced with upstream Subversion snapshot MEncoder:
- add -tsprog for demuxer lavf
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Some work is being done to the MPEG subtitle code, but we need more samples of DVB and VBI-coded teletext as well as other MPEG-TS/PS subtitles which currently do not work in SVN or which work with -demuxer lavf but not with MPlayer's demuxer.
Just some random notes and changes. In SVN the lavf demuxer is now default for Matroska files. We are trying to fix the problems in it, so please report some bugs if you run into them.
If you just want to undo this change, add the following to the end of your config file:
[extension.mkv]
demuxer=mkv
MPlayer now has the ability to use FFmpeg's network code to access streams. Use mplayer ffmpeg://rtsp://example.invalid/stream.mov syntax to try it.
In general most users should be using SVN MPlayer, as rc3 is over a year old.
Godot has arrived.
1.0rc3 was intended to be rolled out over a year ago, but got delayed again and again. Since it is designed to be compatible with the FFmpeg 0.5 branch, it will be useful to distros and other users still tracking said branch. Thus we are now publishing it even though it is outdated even before the day of its release. For general usage current Subversion snapshots should be a better fit, as many bug fixes and new features are available.
This release adds support for a ton of new binary codecs and leverages all the stuff added to FFmpeg. Hardware-accelerated video output over VDPAU is now possible, as is audio output through PulseAudio. MPlayer now runs natively on 64bit OS X, the Wii and on OS/2.
We have switched to the libavformat MOV/MP4 demuxer to avoid maintaining the duplicate MOV/MP4 code. This breaks binary audio/video codecs with MOV/MP4 files. Please use '-demuxer mov' if you still require the binary decoders.
Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all around. External library copies have been synchronized with upstream.
There is no need to download binary codec packages if you already have an older version. The codec packs have not been updated.
Note that this code is ancient, e.g. it still contains this long-fixed bug. Unless you are at least deadly allergic to it, use latest SVN instead.
MPlayer 1.0rc3 can be downloaded by HTTP or FTP.
MD5SUM: e1221be5fcad74a2a4185f67ba6c9ae0
SHA1SUM: f533ea1eb2c540402bace0f0fe2317721361510d
MPlayer 1.0rc3: "BikeshedCounter AKA Godot"
Decoders:
- support for X8 frames (fixes "J-type picture is not supported" for WMV2)
- support for DTS WAV/DTS-CD passthrough by ad_hwac3
- Apple's raw YUV2 in MOV
- LATM over LOAS AAC decoding via internal libfaad2
- video game codecs: BFI video, Playstation MDEC video, ADPCM XA audio, EA Maxis XA ADPCM audio, RL2 video, Beam Software SIFF video, V.Flash PTX video
- AVOption support for libavcodec-based decoders
- use lavc ADPCM codecs by default
- support for progressive JPEG in ffmjpeg
- ACDSystems MJPEG (ACDV) via binary DLL and lavc
- SIF1 via binary DLL
- wincam screen capture (WCMV) via binary DLL
- Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam mjpeg (CJPG) via binary DLL and ijpg library
- kensington webcam (AJPG, ABYR) via binary DLL
- centre for wavelets (wavc) via binary DLL
- GeoVision Advanced MPEG-4 (GMP4, GM40) via binary DLL
- Xiricam JPEG from Veo PC Camera (XJPG) via binary DLL
- WorldConnect Wavelet Video (SMSV) via binary DLL
- VDOWave 3 advanced (VDO3, VDOM, VDOW) via binary DLL
- VoxWare MetaVoice (format 0x0074) via binary DLL
- Ulead DV Audio (0x215, 0x216) via binary DLL
- GoToMeeting codec (G2M2, G2M3) via binary DLL
- SP4x codec - used by Aiptek MegaCam (SP4x) via binary DLL
- Broadway MPEG Capture Codec (BW10) via binary DLL
- ZDSoft screen recorder (ZDSV) via binary DLL
- WebTrain Communication lossless screen recorder (WTVC) via binary DLL
- xfire video (XFR1) via binary DLL
- VFAPI RGB transcode (vifp) via binary DLL
- ETI CamCorder EYECON (NUB0, NUB1, NUB2) via binary DLL
- fox motion (FMVC) via binary DLL
- Trident video (TY2C, TY2N, TY0N) via binary DLL
- 10-bit video (v210) via Cinewave binary DLL
- Brooktree YUV 4:1:1 Raw (Y41P) via binary DLL
- many rare/obscure fourccs for known formats added
- lower priority for binary Linux rv3040 codecs due to bugs
- remove native NuppelVideo decoder, use lavc instead
Demuxers:
- -lavfdopts cryptokey allows decrypting MXF and ASF files
- support for wavpack in Matroska
- AVOption support for lavf demuxing
- prefer lavf musepack demuxer over libmpdemux
- prefer lavf MOV demuxer over libmpdemux (use -demuxer mov for old behavior)
- support program switching in lavf demuxer
- support -slang in lavf demuxer
- support nosound switching in lavf demuxer
- support libass in lavf demuxer
- support VOBsub in lavf demuxer
- support MOV subtitle format
- support for attachments in lavf demuxer
- support for chapters in lavf demuxer
- support seeking in multirate RealMedia files
- FLAC speedup in lavf demuxer
- MNG demuxer
- remove native NuppelVideo demuxer, use lavf demuxer instead
Filters:
- vf_ow new overcomplete wavelet denoiser
- change vf_screenshot dependency from libpng to lavc
- add af_scaletempo which maintains audio pitch when changing playback speed
- fix multi-channel reordering
- af_stats filter to print information about the audio stream
Streaming:
- tv:// support for Windows
- fix teletext on some systems
- DVD streams can switch angles
- DVD still menus are now supported via dvdnav://
- allow specifying the TV standard for each channel
- switch internal dvdread to libdvdread SVN external
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
- DNxHD encoder
- H.264 PAFF decoding
- Nellymoser ASAO decoder
- Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
- libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
- IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
- Ogg (Vorbis only) muxer
- PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
- Sun Rasterfile decoder
- TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
- Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
- AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
- QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
- iPod/iPhone compatible MP4 muxer
- Mimic decoder
- MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
- RL2 demuxer / decoder
- IFF demuxer
- 8SVX audio decoder
- BFI demuxer
- MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
- BFI video decoder
- OMA demuxer
- MLP/TrueHD decoder
- Electronic Arts CMV decoder
- Motion Pixels Video decoder
- Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
- removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
- D-Cinema audio muxer
- Electronic Arts TGV decoder
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
- AAC decoder
- floating point PCM encoder/decoder
- MXF muxer
- E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
- Nellymoser ASAO encoder
- ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
- liba52 wrapper removed
- SVQ3 watermark decoding support
- Speex decoding via libspeex
- Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
- RV30 and RV40 decoder
- QCELP / PureVoice decoder
- hybrid WavPack support
- R3D REDCODE demuxer
- Electronic Arts TQI decoder
- OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
- NC (NC4600) cameras file demuxer
- MXF D-10 muxer
- Generic metadata API
- H.264 speedup and PAFF decoding (install Yasm for faster H.264 decoding)
- correctly decode more of the H.264 conformance testsuite
- VC-1/WMV3 decoder speedup
- VP3 decoder speedup
- VP6 decoder speedup
- Split-Radix FFT (speedup multiple audio codecs)
- MMX/SSE/ARM and other misc speedups
libmpeg2:
- enable Alpha/ARM optimizations in libmpeg2
- SSE2-optimized IDCT routines from upstream libmpeg2
- libmpeg2 updated to version 0.5.1
Drivers:
- replace PolypAudio by PulseAudio (-ao pulse)
- add force-pbo suboption for faster output in vo_gl
- add Nintendo Wii/GameCube video driver (-vo wii)
- VIDIX driver for SuperH Mobile VEU hardware block
- support -border on vo_gl/gl2 in x11
- Direct3D Windows video output driver added
- factorize code in vo_wii
- removed unnecessary code from vo x11, xv, xvmc
- add OS/2 DART audio driver (-ao dart)
- add VDPAU video output
- add OS/2 KVA video driver (-vo kva)
MEncoder:
- check for system-wide configuration file in MEncoder
- AVOption support for lavc encoders
- AVOption support for lavf muxers
Others:
- many compiler warning fixes
- basic support for Closed Captioning roll-up mode
- reworked screensaver disabling support, most users will need to use -heartbeat-cmd due to screensaver authors failing to design a common API
- grayscale decoding/encoding with FFmpeg disabled where it slowed down the color case
- Linux AppleIR remote support
- add options to disable some or all configuration files
- support for DOS-style file:///x:/path paths
- some new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)
- libdvdcss updated to 1.2.10, now same as upstream version
- fix -endchapter support again for -dump* options
- add startup audio volume option
- add option to disable default key binds
- change default OSD and subtitle font size to a smaller default
libass
- various fixes and updates to match VSFilter renderer
- support \blur tag and ScaledBordersAndShadow property
- fractional arguments and subpixel accuracy
- keep positions when pan-and-scan is used
Ports:
- small crash with vo_macosx fixed
- AC3/DTS passthrough for ao_macosx
- fix frozen OSD on OS X
- vo_gl now works with -wid and nVidia drivers on Windows (this is a hack)
- VIDIX on SuperH
- workarounds for AltiVec on Apple gcc 3.3 on OS X dropped
- vo_macosx can now be compiled in 64-bits mode
- allow multiple MPlayer instances with vo_macosx using buffer_name
- OpenGL support for unmodified MinGW64
SWScaler:
- new LGPLed YUV to RGB tables generator
Newer ATI cards and Intel ATOM owners on Linux can utilize the VA-API hardware accelerated H.264, WMV3/VC1, MPEG2 and MPEG4 playback using MPlayer.
Instructions can be found at http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/mplayer-vaapi/
Happy new year! Just a quick note, if you got some DVD's as a gift, mplayer -nocache dvdnav:// should play your new movies better than dvd://.
MPlayer now supports most of the Bluray and HD-DVD codecs. You can rip Bluray movies on Linux using this guide. There is also an untested patch for playing Bluray discs in this thread at doom9.org.
MPlayer is also hosting the rtmpdump project. rtmpdump is a program to download rtmp:// streams. It was previously hosted on SourceForge.
There are several ways to speed up the playback of 1080 H.264 files in MPlayer.
First is to use the newly added VDPAU output. It allows the newer Nvidia video cards to decode the video without using much CPU. It is in SVN MPlayer (Nvidia binary driver 180.37 or newer required), you can find known bugs and report bugs HERE. (Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD only)
How to get the SVN version is described on the download page and snapshot tarballs are available as well.
Second is to use MPlayer with the experimental multithreaded FFmpeg-mt branch, which allows you to use multiple cores/CPU. (all OS and CPU supported)
To install, copy and paste this line:
wget -N http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2 && tar jxvf mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2 && cd mplayer && ./configure && make && sudo make install
To enable threading run mplayer -lavdopts threads=N file.mkv where N is the number of threads you want to use.
NOTE: FFmpeg-mt has problems with packed b-frames.
A Windows build of MPlayer using FFmpeg-mt can be found at http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php.
Third is to use the multithreaded CoreAVC codec with the CoreAVC-for-linux project. The CoreAVC decoder costs $15 USD. (Linux ONLY)(Windows users only need this PATCH)
Fourth, FFmpeg has added some optimizations from the x264 project. To fully utilize these you will need to make sure a recent version of YASM is installed and detected by the latest SVN MPlayer when compiling.
Fifth, using -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:fast=1 may cause artifacts, but will allow you to play larger files in realtime. (all OS and CPU supported) (use -lavdopts skipframe=nonref:skiploopfilter=all:fast=1 for even more speedup, skipframe also works with VDPAU.)
There is also a rejected PATCH which adds support for the new multithreaded binary VC-1/WMV3 codec.
The FFmpeg project would like to recognize and thank the people at Picsearch for their help improving FFmpeg recently. The Picsearch team makes extensive use of FFmpeg and provided feedback to FFmpeg in the form of thousands of files that either crash FFmpeg or use unsupported/unknown codecs. The FFmpeg development team is putting this information to work in order to improve FFmpeg for everyone.
We know that there are other organizations using FFmpeg on a large scale to process diverse input types. The FFmpeg team invites those organizations to provide similar feedback about problems encountered in the wild.
The MPlayer team is also working hard on this list, so far we have added support for 25 binary decoders and 23 fourccs to existing video codecs. Stay tuned as we continue testing files and adding support for more codecs.
We also urge all websites that use MPlayer/FFmpeg to share the crashing/unplayable files with us. We suspect that Youtube uses our software, and we would like everyone to benefit from their work.
One of our goals is to be able to play every video file. If you have a file which does not play with MPlayer, please upload it so we can take a look. You can find instructions in the Bugreports section of the documentation. Or you can report non-working videos on our Bugzilla or on the MPlayer-users mailing list or just send me an email with the URL of the problem video.
We are proud to announce another release. This time, it's a dual one, because libdvdread was split from libdvdnav and is now developed in a separate tree, retaining API compatibility with the old upstream.
Apart from the split, the highlights for this release include a large number of memory and resource leak fixes, pkgconfig support and the introduction of dvdread-config script.
libdvdnav-4.1.3 and libdvdread-4.1.3 can be downloaded from the following locations. Please be kind to our server and use one of our many mirrors.
SHA1SUM: d1b95eb8a7caee1fa7580a1abad84d6cb3cad046
MD5SUM: d62383c45b28816771e283515f2c27fa
SHA1SUM: fc4c7ba3e49929191e057b435bc4f867583ea8d5
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