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Experimental Mplayer build from SVN (Announce)

posted by Khusraw E-mail, Bucharest, Romania, 11.09.2010, 19:58
(edited by Khusraw on 11.09.2010, 20:44)

> Maybe. Core MPlayer developers are very probably focused on security and
> vulnerability resulting to various underlows/underflows and potentialy
> dangerous code.
> (Useless in DOS, but can be important in Linux and Windows.)
> So there is more various checks in player routines which slow down the
> decoding.
Mplayer is not my code. The only thing I do was to provide the VBE interface for DOS (which can't be slower or faster), to add the mapping code for accessing the video frame buffer (which again can't be slower or faster) and to add wss instead of Allegro for sound. Allegro doesn't work with my sound cards, even with my CS425 which has hardware SB Pro emulation the sound is very bad, wss works much better with it and besides has good support for my ICH5 AC97. I have Mik's patch to vo_vesa and I can say without any doubt that neither his patch has any contribution to how fast or clean the VESA video output is. But Windows builds of newer Mplayer (sub)versions are also much slower than older ones, e.g. the latest Sherpya builds are slow with my 2.6GHz Pentium IV, older ones used to be fast enough.

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