Tag Archives: Mplayer

Fixing Mplayer’s wobbly legs on Arch

Posted on 2009-11-29 by Tsukasa

Courtesy of this forum post I had to rebuild Mplayer to prevent crashes when jumping through files. As I am quite devoted to vdpau I didn’t test whether this is a general issue or not… Fixing it is rather easy: … Continue reading →

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Building recent Mplayer SVN + CoreAVC For Linux

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

As Michael points out there’s a slight problem with the CoreAVC For Linux patchset that enable Mplayer to take advantage of CoreCodec’s h.264 decoder — with recent changes in the sourcecode the old build_patch.pl script doesn’t produce usable output anymore. … Continue reading →

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CoreAVC 1.7 + Mplayer

Posted on 2008-05-11 by Tsukasa

It took me about a week to sort out some issues with my setup but now CoreAVC 1.7 is running fine in my SVN version of Mplayer thanks to the revamped patches from the CoreAVC-for-Linux project (yay, no more old … Continue reading →

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CoreAVC for Mplayer dead, reborn, punching bad boys to a pulp

Posted on 2008-05-06 by Tsukasa

It’s a real shame: A while ago I blogged about a very nice set of patches to make CoreAVC work on Mplayer. Now it seems that a DMCA note was filed and Google has kicked the project from it’s Code … Continue reading →

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Mplayer + CoreAVC

Posted on 2008-04-24 by Tsukasa

Windows, despite all it’s flaws, is nice for a few things. First of all, there’s a buttload of cool, gory games. And second there’s a really nice multimedia support; many companies/individuals write highly optimized software for video splitting, decoding, muxing, … Continue reading →

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Workaround for nVidia Linux driver TV-out scaling problem

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Tsukasa

If you’re using a GeForce 8×00 graphics card and the binary blob from nVidia you’ll may notice that the picture on your TV is slightly larger than the area the TV can display; a part of your desktop will be … Continue reading →

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