I am guessing there should be more to the list if I have the codecs properly plaved and directed to?
No, this has nothing to do with codecs. This has to do with how mplayer will output the video. For example, if you do this mplayer -vo gl /path/to/video.file it will render the video to an OpenGL surface. If you do mplayer -vo directx /path/to/video.file it willl render the video using DirectX. If you do mplayer -vo png /path/to/video.file it will output a png file for each separate frame of video. This is the sort of powerful thing that mplayer can do. Try using directx, gl2, winvidix, etc. and see if it helps your problem.
I am able to get video to play fine with gl2. Thanks for the help.
Edit your mplayer.conf file to make gl2 the default. Also, you might have a problem with your DirectX setup or your video driver or something. You might want to fix that.
Honestly, this episode in terms of the main bit was not very helpful. You say over and over people use bad players, but never define what you think is a bad player. I am grabbing MPlayer as we speak to give it a try though
You say over and over people use bad players, but never define what you think is a bad player.
All of them. Except MPlayer.
I would argue MPlayer is a poor audio program, at least with the standard windows gui, it looks like a DVD player and the display is far too small for my liking. I personally have gone back to Winamp, largely
I would argue MPlayer is a poor audio program, at least with the standard windows gui, it looks like a DVD player and the display is far too small for my liking. I personally have gone back to Winamp, largely
Yes, the gui is clearly designed for video watching and nothing else. The real power of mplayer lies in its ability to play just about anything perfectly while barely using any system resources, and giving you every possible option in the known universe. I also never use the gui, always opting for the command line. The one failing of mplayer is that it is just that, a player. It has no media library management whatsoever. That is why programs like Winamp, Amarok, and iTunes are still needed even for the mplayer master.
The real power of mplayer lies in its ability to play just about anything perfectly while barely using any system resources, and giving you every possible option in the known universe. ... It has no media library management whatsoever. That is why programs like Winamp, Amarok, and iTunes are still needed even for the mplayer master.
If you're looking for something fairly light that DOES have media library management, I'm a big fan of Foobar2000. Not the best interface, but I like it over Winamp and iTunes.
In reference to the anime you were talking about in which people could simply interact with the network by just putting glasses on...I saw a tv show once with a similar premise. I think it was an episode of The Outer Limits, but I can't say for sure. In the episode there were a few people who had a disablity in which they couldn't have the implants to allow them to connect to the network, so they had to obtain all their knowledge from real books. But in the end something happen to the network and all the users simply had no knowledge to reference and were basically useless and it was those who had learned from books that had to lead the new world and teach the former network users how to exist. It was a really interesting show..., has anyone else seen it? Was it Outer Limits?
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C:\mplayer>mplayer.exe -vo help
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Step
ping: 8)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Available video output drivers:
directx Directx DDraw YUV/RGB/BGR renderer
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
winvidix WIN32 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame
C:\mplayer>
mplayer -vo gl /path/to/video.fileit will render the video to an OpenGL surface. If you domplayer -vo directx /path/to/video.fileit willl render the video using DirectX. If you domplayer -vo png /path/to/video.fileit will output a png file for each separate frame of video. This is the sort of powerful thing that mplayer can do. Try using directx, gl2, winvidix, etc. and see if it helps your problem.All of them. Except MPlayer.
I know the file was not corrupt because it plays in VLC, but VLC won't let me use the subtitle file. So MPlayer ahoy!