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It's not - entirely - a dumb question: apart a possible security problem the video quality of the -current version is noticeably lower of a svn snapshot of the sources.
Today I installed the latest version from mplayer sources (mplayer-export-2012-05-13) and you can see the difference on the images here
Also, (mplayer) has a lot less visual bloat and for the last many years that I'm using it, just reliably plays anything that is thrown at it.
Furthermore, through CLI can be used to quickly inspect properties of the media file, such as codec, rate, length, languages, subtitles, etc, and script your handling accordingly.
The reason why itīs so old is that it has not been updated :-)
Yeah, not very helpful, I know. As for now, if you want somethig newer, youīd better try to compile and install it yourself. Maybe Mplayer has not been updated because compilation issues or library compatibilities...
The Slackware team knows better than I.
Quote:
What are the advantages of MPlayer vs VLC?
MPlayer/Mencoder beat VLCīs semi-beta encoding capabilities. MPlayer/Mencoder is extremely powerful encoding videos, but you will have to repackage it to encode to proprietary formats. VLC is easier to use for encoding, but I dislike the results every time I try.
If you only want a domestic player, then both VLC and Mplayer work well. You can use VLC through an Ncurses interface or pure CLI interface, so thatīs not a problem.
I think that Mplayer is included because it doubles as a player and encoder, while VLC is only good as player.
The reason why itīs so old is that it has not been updated :-)
Yeah, not very helpful, I know. As for now, if you want somethig newer, youīd better try to compile and install it yourself. Maybe Mplayer has not been updated because compilation issues or library compatibilities...
Well, it's what I've done
The screenshot from the first post have been taken by me on my pc just after a "./compile && make && su -c 'make install'".
It's that I'm a little surprised to find a so old version, because generally you can find reasonably new packages on '-current' (ehy, there is kde-4.8.2!)
As for the mplayer-vs-vlc... I don't think it's relevant, but... I like the first one in cli mode (I've never liked gmplayer) and now I'm so used to his keys (left/right arrow, pg up/down) that when I use vlc I cannot do a thing!
Besides, I view a lot of "soft" subtitled videos, and sometimes I need to adjust the timing "on the fly". With mplayer it's incredibly easy
And finally, mplayer say "Core dumped " when it ends to dump a stream
Don't mistake 'current' for some kind of a rolling release version of Slackware. It's just a development snapshot made available for wider testing of the latest changes.
Its most likely not been bumped yet because the developers are simply working on more important structural stuff, I wouldn't expect to see the stand-alone apps such as MPlayer getting bumps until much closer to release day. Bump them too early, and you only end up having to do it again before release and it's wasted effort.
--- MPlayer.SlackBuild.orig 2012-05-16 00:03:00.000000000 +0800
+++ MPlayer.SlackBuild 2012-05-16 00:42:59.000000000 +0800
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@
--confdir=/etc/mplayer \
--enable-gui \
--enable-menu \
- --enable-largefiles \
--disable-arts \
--codecsdir=${CODECSDIR} \
--language="${LANGUAGES}" \
@@ -280,15 +279,15 @@
2>&1 | tee $OUTPUT/configure-${PRGNAM}.log
# So that MPlayer does not report "UNKNOWN" as it's version:
echo $VERSION > VERSION
-make 2>&1 | tee $OUTPUT/make-${PRGNAM}.log
+make -j2 2>&1 | tee $OUTPUT/make-${PRGNAM}.log
make DESTDIR=$PKG install 2>&1 |tee $OUTPUT/install-${PRGNAM}.log
# Build the html documentation (not all languages are available):
-( cd DOCS/xml
+#( cd DOCS/xml
for i in $(echo $LANGUAGES | tr , ' ') ; do
[ -d $i ] && make html-single-$i ;
done
-)
+#)
# Prepare the configfile:
mkdir -p $PKG/etc/mplayer
The 'make -j2' line just use 2 cpus to compile,
change it to meet your hardware, or just leave it alone.
(Run as root, and change 20120516 to your compile time)
VERSION=20120516 ./MPlayer.SlackBuild
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