As mentioned earlier, I’ve set up an unofficial arch user repository to share my builds with everybody. Today I will elaborate a little more on the provided packages. If you look at the current package list: x264 ffmpeg mplayer ffmpeg-mt mplayer-mt mpd netembryo rxvt-unicode you might be wondering why I provide these packages. All but [...]
I’ve just packaged and added ffmpeg-mt and mplayer-mt to my arch user repository for all of you out there without hardware accelerated video playback. For more information about my personal repository, including usage instructions, view my repo page. To activate n threads in mplayer, use the following command: mplayer -lavdopts threads=n moviefile Instead of constantly [...]
I’ve posted another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR): netembryo and libnemesi. The first is a network abstraction library, the latter is an implementation of RTSP. Both didn’t exist in AUR yet so I guess there’s not much demand for them yet (I don’t even use them myself). MPlayer has initial support for [...]
This article is the follow up of Comprehensive MPlayer Guide I: Introduction. To acquire a good MPlayer setup, you really don’t want to install the version packaged by your favorite distribution. The mainstream linux distributions like Ubuntu use “the latest” but very dated release of MPlayer. Their latest release, v1.0rc2, dates from 7 October 2007. [...]
This article is meant as a comprehensive guide to acquire a complete multimedia experience, in particular everything that is video related: from installation and playback to encoding, desktop integration and much more . I will try to give an in-dept but understandable explanation of the how and perhaps more importantly, the why. I will not [...]