Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

[Stroller]

On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> ...
> mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git",
> before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown
> reasons.  While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt
> patch, mplayer-uau adds more patches.


Are you sure about this characterisation?

I follow the mplayer mailing lists daily, only to try and clarify this  
subject, but it doesn't seem so obvious to me. Mostly it's old  
history, of course, so perhaps you were paying more attention at the  
time.

AIUI Uoti maintains that there's only one real contributor to the  
"official" mplayer, and that all useful improvements and patches are  
tracked by his (Uoti's) git version, which is also better in some  
other respects. The fork stems from the fact that his version and the  
SVN diverged due to an implementation disagreement between him and the  
one other remaining contributing mplayer dev with SVN access.

Whilst I've heard Uoti referred to as a troll, I have no idea whether  
this is fair or not. It seems to me like there is an objection to him  
referring to his version as "mplayer-git" rather than "my fork", but  
if he is correct in his assertion that "official mplayer" is now  
maintained only by one guy (Reimar?), then I think that it's actually  
pretty reasonable to call them both equally different mplayer  
"versions". How is "official" mplayer better if it's actually no  
better supported than Uoti's version?

I have heard more than one report of significant performance  
improvements using Uoti's git version and he seems helpful and  
responsive to bug reports on the -users mailing list.

Of course the whole situation is a mess, with mencoder now unsupported  
and no facility to dump to / muxing MP4s.

Stroller.