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

[Grant]

>>> Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay
>>> that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt :
>>> media-video/mplayer-uau.
>>>
>>> It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates
>>> a binary called "mplayer-uau" which can be installed at the same time as
>>> the official mplayer package.
>>
>> I gave that a try and it smoothed everything right out, so I guess it
>> was a CPU issue after all.  Thank you for your help.  How is
>> mplayer-uau different from mplayer-mt?  Maybe mplayer-mt can't be
>
> mplayer from multimedia overlay is a replacement for the regular, official
> mplayer with the only change being ffmpeg-mt.  It can't be installed
> alongside regular mplayer because it's a replacement and multithreading can
> be enabled/disabled at runtime.
>
> 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.

Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt
patches, or just ffmpeg-mt?  Do you know what other significant
patches mplayer-uau adds?

- Grant