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On 07/08/2010 11:28 PM, Grant wrote: |
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>>>>> Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt |
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>>>>> patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? |
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>>>> "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. |
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>>> |
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>>> Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer |
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>>> with ffmpeg-mt support. |
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>> There is no latest "mplayer with ffmpeg-mt" support. There is mplayer, |
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>> ffmpeg and ffmpeg-mt. To get what most people refer to as "mplayer-mt", you |
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>> have to replace the bundled ffmeg that is included in mplayer with |
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>> ffmpeg-mt. |
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>>> Is there a way to either do that |
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>>> specifically, or to follow the latest mplayer version in the |
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>>> multimedia overlay? The situation is a little tricky since there is a |
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>>> version in portage that is newer than the newest version in the |
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>>> multimedia overlay. |
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>> That's because the developer who updates the multimedia overlay didn't yet |
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>> put the ebuild there. The latest version I released (which is based on the |
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>> latest available ffmpeg-mt sources) is "1.0_rc4_p20100626": |
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>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html |
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> Got it, thanks. Hopefully that shows up in the multimedia overlay |
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> soon. It's interesting that the mplayer-uau ebuild includes a threads |
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> USE flag in addition to the ffmpeg-mt one. |
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I guess it might be based on an older mplayer ebuild. Not sure. IIRC, |
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"threads" was a valid USE flag in older mplayer ebuilds. I'm not sure |
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what it was good for, but it didn't help at all to distribute decoding |
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load across CPUs. |
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