MPlayer 1.0pre8 released
It's been more than one year since our last release and yes, we are still alive! Like always, the length of the ChangeLog clearly shows we have been lazy to release but not lazy to code.
First off, we have uncovered some new security bugs in the AVI, Real and MOV code so we urge you to upgrade in any case.
Given how old pre7 is by now, it's strongly recommended to upgrade. We also recommend users to test and use the Subversion version when possible in order to both benefit from latest development, and report/fix bugs. Contrary to running a development kernel, it won't eat your data or make your cat pregnant, but it will help us improve the overall quality of MPlayer.
Among the many features that have been added, it should be noted that libavformat now supports a greater variety of files. If you have a hard time playing some files, please try demuxing with libavformat (-demuxer lavf). MEncoder can also take advantage of libavformat, in order to, for example, create Flash videos.
There have also been many enhancements to the H.264 decoder to make it a lot faster and more error-resilient. More audio and video codecs are supported. Audio/Video synchronisation has been further improved, especially on Real streams and Vorbis.
And that's not it yet! We have some more tricks for you up our sleeves for upcoming versions of MPlayer: experimental DVDnav (DVD menus) support and an experimental graphical user interface for our Windows port. Please join in the testing effort so that these features don't remain experimental .
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building error
If you have trouble building with --enable-gui you can try the svn version. I got the "Gui/libgui.a(interface.o): In function `guiInit':" error with the release, but the svn built here.
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srlinuxx, yeah I built the
srlinuxx, yeah I built the svn version.
I do have a question: Using the gui, is there anyway to play .pls files?
I only seem to be able to play .pls files from command line using 'mplayer -playlist file.pls'
re: pls
I don't see one in the gui yet either. Sorry. I think the commandline is about your only choice for now. Perhaps someone else will come along with a more informed answer. Meanwhile, you could add it to the icon (or menu entry) command I reckon and then add and remove to it from the Playlist gui config. I actually don't use the gui too much, as it seems quicker just to type than all that clicking, but I like it be available.
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