Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

John Campbell <jdc.rpv@cox.net> wrote:

> On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> 
> > While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos
> > Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I
> > realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering
> > if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to merit switching.
> 
> Mplayer2 installs in parallel, so try them both.
> 
> I moved to mplayer2 some time ago, before the name-change to
> mplayer2. I've had fewer issues with it than with mplayer but your
> mileage may vary.
> 
> After a quick comparison I'd say they use about the same amount of CPU
> but mplayer still has problems with fontconfig freezing the video for
> a few seconds whenever fonts change in subtitles.  This can be a real
> problem when subtitles contain a lot of UTF8 extended characters not
> actually found in the selected font.  You also see a lot of "Glyf not
> found in font, choosing another font" warnings.
> 
> Mplayer2 doesn't have this problem as it shifts fontconfig into
> another thread.  Mplayer itself isn't multithreaded yet, just ffmpeg.
> Mplayer2 also handles mkv chapters, which aren't really all that
> useful anyway.
> 
> So I'd say just install mplayer2, add threads=5 to your config and try
> them both.
I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day
or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter?

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