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Experimental Mplayer build from SVN (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 06.09.2010, 20:04

> Having a little spare time, I compiled Mplayer from a recent SVN
COOL :-)

> and for sound I used WSS by Shigeaki Sakamaki instead of Allegro
> (at least WSS has support for some AC97 cards, I plan to add
> HDA support too).
COOL :-) Where to download this "WSS" and what does this
abbreviation mean ?

> You may download them from
> here http : // rapidsh** . com / files/416911577 / Mplayer.7z
:-|

> I wonder if there is a way around the 2GB file-size limit?
YES.

> I think I posted about this topic a couple of years ago
??? WtF[1] ??? WtF[2] ???

> and the consensus then seemed to be a patch to unsigned DWORD
> integers was possible. At least unsigned 32-bit integers would make
> the limit 4GB which would play MOST single-layered DVDs
> and/or .VOBs all the way though!
Right.

> Since he's using DJGPP 2.04 beta to compile,
> it has the 4 GB patches (according to CWS)
of what ???

> I've never tried it. AFAICT, you need a suitable OS (MS-DOS 7 ???)
WtF ??? :crying:

> FreeDOS still doesn't support > 2 GB files, even on FAT32,
> where it's able to be supported.
:-( But EDR-DOS does support files up to 256 GiB, again :clap:

> At one time Eric Auer said it was "fairly trivial" to maybe?
> fix, but he never publicly hacked on it.
Because last time I discussed this thing with him his attitude was "there is no 2-GiB-problem in FreeDOS" , "there is no need for files > 2 GiB (or 2 GB ???) in DOS
or FreeDOS" and "use Linux". Another "interesting" point of him: "there is no need for a sound driver model for DOS or FreeDOS" and "there is no need to support
PCI sound hardware in DOS" and "you can't add this to DOS because there is no such thing in DOS" and finally "all sound cards are excellently supported and emulated with DOS-EMU" :-(

Also the 2039 kernel still has this unfixed regression ...

> Hope that helps explain it somehow, but I doubt it
> 2010: the year of the DOS desktop
This says all ...

Test:

- rapidsh** sucks :-(
- got the file "somehow", extracted, it runs (Pentium 4 PC)
- video does play, but ...
- still messing text into the video, problem known from 2008 Mik's DGJPP binaries and Sherpya's binaires via HX, -really-quiet badly needed ( >NUL seems not to work ...)
- it seems to always fullscreen-ize / zoom up the video by some obscure strategy
- even then, there are still severe artifacts with the video, apparently related to the VESA stuff or zooming (Mik's 2008 binaries and Sherpya's via HX usually don't have this problem)
- sound works :clap: - at least some chips: ENS:nope ICH:cool other:untested
- -vo yuv4mpeg and -vo pcm seem to work (didn't test > 2 GiB nor fragmentation)
- when done playing it tries to restore 80x25 text mode even if 80x50 was set before, but what's worse, sometimes not even the 80x25 mode is restored proprerly
- WeBM VP8 plays
- OGG Dirac still doesn't work (apprently a problem of primary MPLAYER project)
- Theora improvements untested
- Runs on Pentium 4, Pentium 1 untested -> CMONVTQ and PINSRNTQ issues untested
- CPUID'ding stuff not reported (not done at all ???) anymore
- Some strange "apo" stuff reported " ` " ...
- Seems I'll have to update my BIG video player comparison table and the table width problem will get even bigger :crying:

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