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 1Q501S-00088A-2t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:21:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 019ECE0459; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8364E0459 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E9F1B409A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:20:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.766 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.766 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.356, BAYES_00=-2.599, DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24=2.189] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TJZFl6BHF8YO for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4151B418F for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4zzw-0000uP-Hm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:20:04 +0200 Received: from athedsl-375656.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.19.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:20:04 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-375656.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:19:48 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4D91F44B.9020104@gmail.com> <4D92E321.7050101@cox.net> <32126.1301474147@ccs.covici.com> <4D92F458.9050200@cox.net> <20110330174746.GA24232@omega> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-375656.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110329 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <20110330174746.GA24232@omega> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2d900199690be2c1ca44b25b66c1794e 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.