MPlayer 1.5 released!

@MickJT
For all of my AmigaOS projects I got the fastest results with -Os.
Reason: The PPC CPUs used for AmigaOS have very small caches, compared to x64 CPUs for example. Theoretically slower (no loop-unrolling, etc.), but smaller code may fit completely into the caches, while "faster" but larger code doesn't. The result is that small, but less optimized code can be faster on such systems. Using cross-module/source optimizations (IIRC enabled with -O3 and -O4) and LTO can make it even worse.
Note1: I only optimized code for G2 (603/604), G3 (750), G4 (74xy) and 405 based CPUs (440/460), but not for the PA6T-1682M nor P5020/40, which may behave completely different.
Note2: Code which is fast on real hardware may be slow on emulation such as WinUAE and QEmu, and the other way round.

@smarkusg

Thanks for the feedback!

I went back through and found a news video that stopped playing
prematurely without the cache change - stopping around 4m11s
instead of playing to the full 4m33s. Unfortunately, while it
happened a couple times, it wasn't consistent. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgQPCOuUgKQ

Then I tried setting the cache to 20480 as suggested. It
most often meant there was a 15-20 second delay before playing,
but I also didn't see the premature shut-off in a repeated
plays. Maybe it was the inconsistency at play?

I also tried playing that video with a January 2020 build from
Mick and it repeatedly played the video to the end.

When I wasn't playing the video with the 20480 setting in the
config file, I renamed the config file out of view to avoid any
other deviations.

I also made a point not to do any seeking back or forwards to
try to keep that variable out of the mix when playing.

Sorry I didn't come up with a more clearcut results or clues.

Thanks,

PJS

@smarkusg

I did some tests with MPlayer only if I use -cpu750cx not altivec the video goes full screen.
If I use -cpu 7457 the video remains in the window even if the window can be maximized but it does not go full screen.
You probably talked about it, I'm not aware of it ?

Thank you

@pjs
I checked on my settings that I have.
On these settings I checked your video 3x works fine (YouTube URL Extractor script and aiostreams)
I took a screen shot because it was easier

You can check with:
forceidx = 1
cache-min = 1
cache= 8192

Thank you for your help

@white

Recently @Maijestro noticed this problem. I think we are the only ones using mplayer under QEMU Pegasos 2 G4.
It seems that with smaller sizes and changed under QEMU SDL1 it is not possible to switch the screen properly.
Try stretching the window to a larger size and switch.

@smarkusg

I don't know if this can help you in any way
Here I am using -cpu 7457 with ALTIVEC in Full-Screen.

I used MPlayer GUI to pass parameters.
You can also see a .log in the window
The video can be seen in Full-Screen, perhaps with your skills you can further improve this function.


Please note that I use the resolution:
2048x1152

in this case the video is full screen at 1920x1080
Thanks for this player.

( I also used the Altivec MPlayer )

https://youtu.be/wYhhM2LPHfs

@white
Yes you are right , it can also be done as you wrote. Thanks for checking

@Maijestro

I saw your video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NC3IXUtpNM

where do you use:
Mediathek

I saw that the GUI is only in German.

Even though I lived in Germany for a few years
( For a period in Stuttgart and then in CuxHaven on the North Sea. )
First time in my life seeing the sun at 10-11 in the evening.
Handsome


I would be happy if you made a tutorial on its use.
Association of Player settings etc.

While I'm at it, let me ask you how the script you use to close all the Workbench windows at the same time works.

Thank you.

@Maijestro

here is my test:
https://youtu.be/Y5tsVxSzAkU


I have all the Italian channel lists and would like to use them and adapt them if possible.
or I don't know if there is any other program to do this.

@white

Quote:

I watched their video it runs fantastic on their system. Thanks for the video

Mediathek is developed by a German user (evil) on os4Welt.de and at the moment only registered members on os4Welt get access to the program.

The original source of the author is http://evil.bplaced.net/index.php?name=Mediathek&page=About but the version that is offered there is unfortunately a bit older and does not provide TV streaming. I have already asked evil to give me a current source so that I can link to it.

If you are interested I would do the English and Italian (Italian was your language, wasn't it?) translation. TV streams and thumpnails would then only have to be added, which can be done directly via Mediathek without any problems.

The streams can be played with FFPlayer/Emotion/MPlayer.

For now, you should pass "-loglevel quiet" to FFPlay to ensure that the streams are loaded very quickly and there is no unnecessary shell output.

Try this out.

FFPlay -loglevel quit path/to/stream

Resolutions can be forced in the window with "-x" "-y"

Example: FFPlay -loglevel quiet -x 640 -y 480 path/to/stream

You can find a complete list of all commands and options at https://ffmpeg.org/ffplay.html.

@all

If you are interested in an English version let me know and I will forward it to evil and help with the translation.

@Maijestro

on Osdepot the Mediathek ( 0.35 ) version is dated September, 19 2023.
http://os4depot.net/share/network/misc/mediathek.lha

In English it would be better.

Thanks for the suggestions from FFPlay.

How do you close all windows together at once on the Workbench.

I wrote it in the previous post and I'll ask you another time.

@whiteQuote:

This version is a little older 0.83 is currently up to date, give me some time so I can link to the current version.

It is a modified arexx script and is normally located in SYS:S/Arexx/ it has been modified a bit and provided with a nice icon that McFly created.

ClothAll: https://www.mediafire.com/file/738iba6mn8b8tbm/CloseAll.lha/file

Sorry, I had overlooked it.

@Maijestro

Thank you

@Maijestro

For the updated Mediathek version of os4Welt.de (evil) maybe try asking if it can be put on OSdepot.
So maybe a more updated version can be used.

Thank you.

@whiteQuote:

I've already asked him about it, but he wants to make it available on his website/server so he doesn't have to do too many updates on different sources.

Maybe tomorrow I can give you a source with the current version to try out.

@Maijestro
Quote:
That would be -loglevel quiet I guess.

@balaton


Quote:

You are right my mistake sorry

this seems like the best configuration for performance etc.

Amiga:Utilities/FFmpeg/Altivec/ffplay -loglevel quiet -infbuf -skip_loop_filter all -skip_frame noref -x 640 -y 480 link stream-live

it's also good at 1024x768 but it takes a few seconds to synchronize and then become fluid.

Amiga:Utilities/FFmpeg/Altivec/ffplay -loglevel quiet -infbuf -skip_loop_filter all -skip_frame noref -x 1024 -y 768 link stream-live


maybe you need a -buffer command like 8192 for example
I don't know I don't know the exact command.

I tried :
-vcodec (but doesn't seem to accept parameters like -comp etc.)

suggestions ?

here FFPlay 1024x768 Stream-Live

https://youtu.be/s63yqKZwQLY

the parameters you use for MPlayer and Emotion for Live would also be useful.
Emotion "Tooltype"

@smarkusg

Hi,

Figured I should follow up on the sporadic issue of static YT
streams ending a few seconds (5-15secs) before their proper
ends....

I tried a bunch of different combinations of the suggested
forceidx, cache-min & cache arguments in the config file,
tried repeatedly playing the same streams over and over until
YT seemed to lock me out (for the day).

Unfortunately, I still kept getting the sporadic early endings.

It's not the end of the world by any whatsoever means... All in
all MPlayer has otherwise been working great.

Thanks for the efforts in any case!

PJS