[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 03/30/2011 08:47 PM, du yang wrote:
> On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> It's in the multimedia overlay.
>>
>> The "threads=#" (where # less than total threads available on processor)
>> parameter goes in the ~/.mplayer/config file.  I've only got 4
>> processors so I set it to threads=4.  You have an i7, so it should
>> handle more.
>>
>
> I just tried it also.
> Some 720p videos were very slow to play with mplayer on my machine prviously, but
> now they are playing smoothly ;-)
> So mplayer2 show have some performance improvement.
>
> After switching to maplyer2, putting mplayer to package.provided seems to be able to avoid dependencies problem for smplayer and mplayer-plugin..

The version in portage removed multithreading support :-(  The 
maintainer doesn't want the bundled, multithreaded ffmpeg that comes 
with mplayer2.  That's a good thing in the long run, but I've no idea 
why they rushed it.  They could wait till the in-portage libav or ffmpeg 
becomes multithreaded before they strip the bundled one.