Category Archives: MPlayer
uphpu presentation: ripping dvds
I gave a short presentation last night at uphpu on ripping and encoding DVDs under Linux. I wanted to type up a few notes on some stuff I mentioned during the meeting. Short version: Use Handbrake (available on Linux, Mac … Continue reading
Filed under Multimedia, Programming, Matroska, MPlayer
mplayer + libbluray support
MPlayer just very recently got support for playback of unencrypted Blu-Ray discs using libbluray. (Thanks to all the devs and testers! ) Apparently development for the library is being hosted on VLC’s git servers now, something I had no idea … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
gentoo + youtube – flash + mplayer
So, if you’re getting a little tired of Flash and it’s silly security hiccups, but still can’t live without the YouTubey goodness that is the awesome sauce of life, here’s a simple solution I stumbled onto: use mplayer to watch … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
random dvd roundup
I’ve been shuffling stuff around lately with my DVD collection, and one thing I’ve been doing is cleaning up my DVD ripper and web frontend to catalogue my entire collection (todo: put in git, trac). I finally finished archiving this … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Matroska, MPlayer, Multimedia
letterbox movies with mplayer
Non-anamorphic widescreen movies can be a bit of a pain to watch on a widescreen monitor or TV these days. I don’t have very many of them myself, but one I do have is I accidentally bought the original Star … Continue reading
mplayer and matroska metadata, part two
Man, what a week it has been. I have been plugging away at a lot of stuff, and the bug to get my whole media setup tweaked even more has really bit me bad. I’ve been working on nothing but … Continue reading
mplayer and matroska metadata
I’ve been playing with Matroska in general a lot more, seeing what I can do, and in the past week and a half, I’ve found some really cool things. I’m completely braindead after staring at the mplayer code all day, … Continue reading
mplayer and vdpau in portage
I was hoping to write a lengthy post about VDPAU support for MPlayer in the portage tree, but since my harddrive crashed this week and I’m still recovering from that, a small announcement will have to suffice for now. I … Continue reading
mplayer patch: -use-dir-conf option
I just made a really small patch to MPlayer for something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. MPlayer has long supported a playback option -use-filedir-conf that will include a config file if you have it named <filename>.conf. I’ve … Continue reading
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mplayer, real support, part two
I just put a new mplayer snapshot (mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288.ebuild) in the portage tree. This one, adds support for RV30 native playback. RV40 was added in the previous one. Thanks, Kostya. For some samples, see: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/real/VC-RV30/ http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/real/VC-RV40/ Have fun watching those old … Continue reading
