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2007-07-11
, 21:50
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#2
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I would also like to know the answer to this question...
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2007-07-11
, 22:25
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Two things I'd like to see in mplayer:
1. A resume function, where the player remembers where you last stopped watching (I already asked Serge about this, and he thinks it is possible in a future release) and
2. a seek function, where you input a timecode and the player jumps to that exact point of the file. Obviously, this would only be useful if the player had an option to show the time. I have not (yet) asked Serge about this, thinking that I'll bug him with it only after he has finished the resume thingie.
1. A resume function, where the player remembers where you last stopped watching (I already asked Serge about this, and he thinks it is possible in a future release) and
2. a seek function, where you input a timecode and the player jumps to that exact point of the file. Obviously, this would only be useful if the player had an option to show the time. I have not (yet) asked Serge about this, thinking that I'll bug him with it only after he has finished the resume thingie.
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2007-07-11
, 22:27
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Originally Posted by mnelson2
I wonder if compressing a file with constant bitrate would do it?
Anyone know how to reduce the seek time for mplayer?
Presumably the problem is that it doesn't know how far in the file to skip if the compression is variable.
Constant bitrate would make it possible to calculate exactly where to skip to, but I don't know if Mplayer would take advantage of that.
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2007-07-12
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Joined on Jul 2006
@ Helsinki
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Originally Posted by mnelson2
You have 3 options for seeking:
Anyone know how to reduce the seek time for mplayer?
1. left/right buttons on D-PAD: seek 10 seconds back or forward
2. up/down buttons on D-PAD: seek 1 minute forward or back
3. activate menu and use 'fast seek' option: 10 minutes back or forward
With 10 minutes precision, it should take not too many clicks to seek to any part of even a long movie.
My intention is to reduce it to the point that pressing the seek button will effectively fast forward or rewind.
Any other useful, and simple, options that might be unkown to most would also be interesting.
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2007-07-12
, 20:35
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@ Helsinki
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
Thanks for submitting this feature request. It is in my todo list, but I did not have much free time lately to work on mplayer unfortunately. Fortunately I will get a vacation eventually and will have a chance to fix all the long standing issues.
Two things I'd like to see in mplayer:
1. A resume function, where the player remembers where you last stopped watching (I already asked Serge about this, and he thinks it is possible in a future release) and
2. a seek function, where you input a timecode and the player jumps to that exact point of the file. Obviously, this would only be useful if the player had an option to show the time.
Providing a way to enter time for mplayer to jump to this position is harder as we don't have an onscreen keyboard when playing video and can't enter digits.
An interesting thing to add would be some control panel drawn on the screen with a handful of buttons and a scroller area for seeking (like the "conventional" players have).
I have not (yet) asked Serge about this, thinking that I'll bug him with it only after he has finished the resume thingie.
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2007-07-12
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Originally Posted by Serge
Dude! Don't blow your vacation on coding! Go lie in the sun, have a beer.
Thanks for submitting this feature request. It is in my todo list, but I did not have much free time lately to work on mplayer unfortunately. Fortunately I will get a vacation eventually and will have a chance to fix all the long standing issues.
And code when it rains...
MPlayer generally can show the time, but this feature is currently disabled because of a bug: https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/ind...id=54&atid=269
Providing a way to enter time for mplayer to jump to this position is harder as we don't have an onscreen keyboard when playing video and can't enter digits.
An interesting thing to add would be some control panel drawn on the screen with a handful of buttons and a scroller area for seeking (like the "conventional" players have).
Adding one more feature request via garage tracker will not cause any problems for sure. So people who would like to join mplayer development (if any) and looking for tasks to take on will have more options to select from
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2007-07-12
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-ao sdl
You also need -ac ffmp3 for mp3 audio. This is guaranteed to reduce performance. You probably don't want to use it on demanding videos.
You also need -ac ffmp3 for mp3 audio. This is guaranteed to reduce performance. You probably don't want to use it on demanding videos.
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2007-07-14
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@ Helsinki
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Originally Posted by sdrman
SDL currently uses esd for sound output (at least on Nokia 770), esd is not the best sound output option as it may introduce lags and audio/video synchronization problems. It would be best to fix SDL to use dsppcm task either directly or through ALSA wrapper (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/dsp-alsa).
-ao sdl
You also need -ac ffmp3 for mp3 audio. This is guaranteed to reduce performance. You probably don't want to use it on demanding videos.
In order to improve performance, an open source and free MP3 decoder running on DSP core would be nice to have. Looks like some port of libmad to C55x exists: http://osdir.com/ml/audio.mad.devel/.../msg00004.html
All this stuff is in my todo list (though has low priority) and may be implemented later. If some hacker interested/skilled in DSP development would like to join maemo mplayer tweaking/optimizing efforts, that would be very nice.
My intention is to reduce it to the point that pressing the seek button will effectively fast forward or rewind.
Any other useful, and simple, options that might be unkown to most would also be interesting.