From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4qM0-0006bD-JP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:02:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B85AE1C099; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmfepo102.cox.net (fed1rmfepo102.cox.net [68.230.241.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FE41C099 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmfepo102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20110330080048.FRED18463.fed1rmfepo102.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:00:48 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.111] ([68.5.245.128]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id RL0o1g00P2mwPhw03L0ovH; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:00:48 -0400 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=llcNV/FHqOydftnnrcJ9NMbh3fJ49K4u5hSI0Z6GD6o= c=1 sm=1 a=2wHAaU5KHAwA:10 a=_72xBnUQ5QwA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=M9XJo/c/cl7sIf/E1lGGhA==:17 a=64GOaQ8_RbKaVkQOqEEA:9 a=vxZrAjAYUYH-kkJ9GUIKpxhdO0oA:4 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=M9XJo/c/cl7sIf/E1lGGhA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <4D92E321.7050101@cox.net> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:00:33 -0700 From: John Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110328 Thunderbird/3.3a3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2 References: <4D91F44B.9020104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D91F44B.9020104@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fd95fd1bb2c55a6278b5bbc12455b48a 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.