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Enhasa

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Enhasa: 2008-09-16 01:15:25 pm

2008-09-16 01:08:03 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

BTW I'm waiting for the day someone thinks the SM in SMPlayer stands for Super Metroid. That's one reason why I used it for the new pic.

Preemptive answer: no, I don't know what the S stands for. MPlayer is just Media Player.

Edit: Also I like to show off my mad screenshot selection skills that go woefully underappreciated.

nate

2008-09-16 01:56:33 pm

i, for one, think of super metroid every time i see it.

Enhasa

2008-09-16 02:01:07 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Maybe future generations will think of shooting animals while trying to save them.

Sir VG

2008-09-16 10:18:53 pm

Fucking Weeaboo

You know, I never knew that my Rondo of Blood run was the first run on here with subtitles. They're a bit of a pain in the butt to make, but I think it's a nice touch.

Never figured I'd crash a program with them though! ^^;;

jam287

2008-09-16 11:11:12 pm

I've had a problem with this and other SMPlayer versions. It happened both times I tried to use it (on the Ocarina of Time vid/commentary and Bloodlines vid/commentary). After loading the video and audio files up it will play for about 4-5 minutes then stop. If I hit play it restarts the whole video so I have to skip back to where I was and start it again for another 4 minutes. I did that with the Bloodlines video since it was a single segment but it's too tedious to do with OoT. I looked around a bit and didn't see anything else about my problem on any sites and there didn't look like there were any options that were enabled/disabled in SMPlayer that could have caused this. I would really like to use this program so does anybody know any fix?

Poesta

2008-09-18 10:17:44 am

Yarr

SMPlayer stops playing my recorded videos after 1-5 seconds, while MPC just crashes. However, VLC just plays fine. It only happens with my un-recompressed videos.

Enhasa

2008-09-18 07:18:24 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Quote from jam287:

I've had a problem with this and other SMPlayer versions. It happened both times I tried to use it (on the Ocarina of Time vid/commentary and Bloodlines vid/commentary). After loading the video and audio files up it will play for about 4-5 minutes then stop. If I hit play it restarts the whole video so I have to skip back to where I was and start it again for another 4 minutes. I did that with the Bloodlines video since it was a single segment but it's too tedious to do with OoT. I looked around a bit and didn't see anything else about my problem on any sites and there didn't look like there were any options that were enabled/disabled in SMPlayer that could have caused this. I would really like to use this program so does anybody know any fix?

I was going to give you some general response since I don't remember experiencing this, but I tried again and I got the same problem. MPlayer standalone has the same issues, so there's nothing I can do. I think what it is, is that the load audio file option was made for interleaved video like AVI. MP4 is non-interleaved so it just gets confused when it tries to interleave the external audio. I don't even know why it works for a while, but if you check the logs, eventually MPlayer is like "too many audio packets in the buffer" and crashes.

I tried converting to WAV and AAC and the problem was still there. I think either SDA should mux the audio in so we don't have to do it externally (I dunno if Nate is up for that), or an easy workaround is just to load the mp3 in one instance, put it off to the side, open and mute the video, and play that way. Problem is you have to sync manually of course. At any rate, this affects just MP4 with external audio.

Quote from Poesta:

SMPlayer stops playing my recorded videos after 1-5 seconds, while MPC just crashes. However, VLC just plays fine. It only happens with my un-recompressed videos.

I'm sorry, without more info I can only give you general advice. But in general, one thing to try is changing the video driver. Also since you say it only happens with newly recorded videos, it could be a problem related to that particular codec. Try downloading the full codecs from that link (it could be a missing codec). Oh yeah, after it stops, hit f9 to look at the log, and tell me what the error message says (you don't have to paste the whole thing, just look at the end).

Random trivia: I just got a PM from rvm, the developer of SMPlayer himself (who signed up just to send the PM). I'm guessing he found it from just a google search or something like that. He was interested in any changes, but sadly I had to tell him there was really nothing useful for me to add to svn. BTW rvm is seriously one of the greatest people I've ever seen online. He's very dedicated and is very nice and patient, even if someone with a bad attitude posts demands on the SMPlayer forum.

[quote="jam287"]
I've had a problem with this and other SMPlayer versions.  It happened both times I tried to use it (on the Ocarina of Time vid/commentary and Bloodlines vid/commentary).  After loading the video and audio files up it will play for about 4-5 minutes then stop.  If I hit play it restarts the whole video so I have to skip back to where I was and start it again for another 4 minutes.  I did that with the Bloodlines video since it was a single segment but it's too tedious to do with OoT.  I looked around a bit and didn't see anything else about my problem on any sites and there didn't look like there were any options that were enabled/disabled in SMPlayer that could have caused this.  I would really like to use this program so does anybody know any fix?
[/quote]
I was going to give you some general response since I don't remember experiencing this, but I tried again and I got the same problem. MPlayer standalone has the same issues, so there's nothing I can do. I think what it is, is that the load audio file option was made for interleaved video like AVI. MP4 is non-interleaved so it just gets confused when it tries to interleave the external audio. I don't even know why it works for a while, but if you check the logs, eventually MPlayer is like "too many audio packets in the buffer" and crashes.

I tried converting to WAV and AAC and the problem was still there. I think either SDA should mux the audio in so we don't have to do it externally (I dunno if Nate is up for that), or an easy workaround is just to load the mp3 in one instance, put it off to the side, open and mute the video, and play that way. Problem is you have to sync manually of course. At any rate, this affects just MP4 with external audio.

[quote="Poesta"]
SMPlayer stops playing my recorded videos after 1-5 seconds, while MPC just crashes. However, VLC just plays fine. It only happens with my un-recompressed videos.
[/quote]
I'm sorry, without more info I can only give you general advice. But in general, one thing to try is changing the video driver. Also since you say it only happens with newly recorded videos, it could be a problem related to that particular codec. Try downloading the full codecs from that link (it could be a missing codec). Oh yeah, after it stops, hit f9 to look at the log, and tell me what the error message says (you don't have to paste the whole thing, just look at the end).

Random trivia: I just got a PM from rvm, the developer of SMPlayer himself (who signed up just to send the PM). I'm guessing he found it from just a google search or something like that. He was interested in any changes, but sadly I had to tell him there was really nothing useful for me to add to svn. BTW rvm is seriously one of the greatest people I've ever seen online. He's very dedicated and is very nice and patient, even if someone with a bad attitude posts demands on the SMPlayer forum.

nate

2008-09-18 08:05:18 pm

i don't think we can mux mp3 audio in mp4 without breaking quacktime compatibility, but i could be wrong. at any rate this is clearly mplayer's fault and should be fixed by them.

Enhasa

2008-09-18 10:12:29 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Well you could always transcode to aac first. Yeah audio quality loss unless you have the wav, but it's recorded through a mic so the quality probably sucks to begin with.

I just fixed a moronic mistake I made in the smplayer.ini. If you downloaded before this time, all you have to do is edit your file and look for HD_height=640 and change that to HD_height=480. (Yes, the height of 640x480 is indeed 480.) If your computer is buff or you think this change makes HQ look shittier, change loop filter option in performance to always enabled.

jam287

2008-09-18 10:23:25 pm

I have been loading the video in one player and the audio in another player and syncing them manually, but with the OoT commentary it's a bit harder because it's in multiple segments and some segments are only a couple minutes long. Making playlists and then having the video/audio play one after another works but it gets out of sync by a second or so every new segment. Is there any other player out there that can play separate audio and video files at the same time?

Poesta

2008-09-19 09:19:35 am

Yarr

Log:

Quote:

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

I updated my video drivers a few weeks ago. The video codec is the Fraps codec. Grin

@nate: why do we need QuickTime compatibility? Are Mac users afraid of MPlayer and VLC?

nate

2008-09-19 09:30:19 am

not a question of fear but of knowledge. most we can ask of most users is double clicking a file they downloaded. or watching it in the browser using the quacktime plugin if they are unfortunate enough to click on an archive link which is not a forced download.

edman3d

2008-10-05 11:14:13 pm

ow

SMPlayer is the best media player I have ever used in my life.

I would literally pay for it.

(Shh..)

nate

2008-10-06 09:23:41 am

cool.

there's a donate button on the front page.

X

2008-11-26 08:36:46 pm

destroy them with lazers

Everytime I try to open a video with SMPlayer it keeps coming up with the message 'MPlayer Failed to start. Please check the Mplayer path in preferences.' But I have no idea what this means. Any ideas?

Enhasa

2008-11-27 11:20:19 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Go into options/preferences. It will say "Select the MPlayer executable" near the top. By default, it should be "mplayer.exe", which means that it will look in the same folder to find mplayer.exe. Maybe you accidentally changed this field, or you accidentally deleted/moved mplayer.exe. You can put mplayer.exe back there, or you can click on the icon to the right and manually locate it. Or if you want, you can just download the zip again, which will have mplayer.exe.

[hr]

Since I'm posting here, another issue. Nobody's mentioned it yet, but 2 of the mkv vids from tasvideos that I saw had problems running. This is because they used ogg vorbis and the default ffvorbis apparently has some incompatibility issues in some cases. The way to fix this is: go to options/preferences/advanced and click the options tab. Under options, put "-ac vorbis," (including the comma). This will make SMPlayer default to the reference vorbis decoder. AFAIK there are no drawbacks.

If anyone is reading this months in the future, it only affects 20080916 and earlier. For the next compile, I will put this directly in so that you don't need to do anything. In fact, since nobody complained, you probably don't need to do anything anyway.

Oh yeah, another thing I haven't bothered mentioning. I used to use just default upx settings because I figured it didn't matter. But then I played around earlier with different upx settings and actually they do. If anyone has any of the old versions, the filetype icon didn't work, but now I use --compress-icons=0 which fixed it (obviously at a very slight compression expense). Then I tried --brute and it saved about a MB. Not a huge deal but why not. I would have tried --ultra-brute but the additional savings are probably minimal, and I think it still wouldn't have finished by the time I woke up if I left it going overnight.

Go into options/preferences. It will say "Select the MPlayer executable" near the top. By default, it should be "mplayer.exe", which means that it will look in the same folder to find mplayer.exe. Maybe you accidentally changed this field, or you accidentally deleted/moved mplayer.exe. You can put mplayer.exe back there, or you can click on the icon to the right and manually locate it. Or if you want, you can just download the zip again, which will have mplayer.exe.

[hr]

Since I'm posting here, another issue. Nobody's mentioned it yet, but 2 of the mkv vids from tasvideos that I saw had problems running. This is because they used ogg vorbis and the default ffvorbis apparently has some incompatibility issues in some cases. The way to fix this is: go to options/preferences/advanced and click the options tab. Under options, put "-ac vorbis," (including the comma). This will make SMPlayer default to the reference vorbis decoder. AFAIK there are no drawbacks.

If anyone is reading this months in the future, it only affects 20080916 and earlier. For the next compile, I will put this directly in so that you don't need to do anything. In fact, since nobody complained, you probably don't need to do anything anyway.

Oh yeah, another thing I haven't bothered mentioning. I used to use just default upx settings because I figured it didn't matter. But then I played around earlier with different upx settings and actually they do. If anyone has any of the old versions, the filetype icon didn't work, but now I use --compress-icons=0 which fixed it (obviously at a very slight compression expense). Then I tried --brute and it saved about a MB. Not a huge deal but why not. I would have tried --ultra-brute but the additional savings are probably minimal, and I think it still wouldn't have finished by the time I woke up if I left it going overnight.

X

2008-11-28 09:12:01 pm

destroy them with lazers

Thanks that worked.

peril1337

2009-03-29 08:09:01 pm

I'm a thinker, I could break it down

This player is major sexy time yes? Thanks Enhasa, just what I was looking for.

Hmm, I haven't posted in months. I need to visit more often.

don

2009-05-02 03:22:26 pm

http://speeddemosarchive.com/smplayer/smplayer-20080916.zip probably a variant of Win32/Statik application connection terminated - quarantined Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.

I know this is a false positive, it's just that this is the first thing I've ever encountered that generates a false positive with NOD32. Unfortunately VLC is failing to play a particular run with commentary (despite having no problems with any other commentaries), and WMP wants to play both audio tracks simultaneously at the same volume.:X SMPlayer plays it back perfectly.

Thanks for SMPlayer...and making me have to disable AV for a sec. Undecided

ballofsnow

2009-09-19 01:29:53 pm

This media player doesn't recognize audio delay. more details

nate

2009-09-19 02:44:28 pm

i can't believe quicktime is ok. they must have added that in a recent version. either that or you're using quicktime x and didn't specify that. every time i ever tried to mux an mp4 with mp4box's audio delay it would totally kill the audio in quicktime 7.

ballofsnow

2009-09-19 05:35:42 pm

Was it a negative delay? It has even worse support than positive delay.

I have Quicktime 7.6.4.

nate

2009-09-19 06:05:44 pm

no was definitely positive delay iirc ... it may also have been the version of mp4box i was using ... the one that came with all anris. ancient.

Enhasa

2009-09-21 12:18:32 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

I haven't read that link yet, but actually I compiled a new version of smplayer with a ton of improvements (should be, after all, it's been a long time since I last bothered). Of course, doing my best Grenola impersonation with his MP2 run, I did this back in mid July and haven't found the effort to post it in this thread. Roll Eyes

I don't think there have been any major advancements since then, though. Tomorrow I'll update the first post.

bos: Are you saying the AAC format allows for specifying audio delay as metadata? smplayer is just a mplayer frontend, and mplayer is based on ffmpeg, so if it doesn't support something, basically the entire free software world doesn't support it. If this support is recent, then the problem is only that I have a really old mplayer in the current zip, this will be fixed tomorrow. Lips Sealed

Enhasa

2009-09-21 04:04:16 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

New version, long time since the last one, so tons of improvements!

Updated compilation:

- smplayer r3190 (used to be r1806, to give you an indication)
- mplayer r29319
- qt 4.5.2
- gcc 4.4.0

Changes made by me:

- play/pause and stop/beginning icon switching: now I don't have to explain what those buttons do, also it looks sweet
- extra mouse functions like seeking, previous/next: now the wheel rewinds/fast forwards, left button clicks dvd menus, forward/back mouse buttons go forward/back
- more main toolbar buttons, although still hidden by default: redid the toolbars, look at screenshot to see it
- theme used to be based on nuvox, now my own theme called bravo, based on gnome brave 5.1.1: most obvious change, looks awesome IMHO
- clearlooks: I think this well-known qt theme looks a lot better than windows -- decision was done mainly for sliders though, you can change back in the menu
- faq/tips although somewhat outdated and many things don't apply exactly to this build: added them back, figured why not
- redid the menus again: I think the organization is even clearer now
- other stuff is minor, can't remember: includes some filter options, stuff like that

Changes made by smplayer:

- part01 etc: awesome feature for SDA, just load seg1 and the entire run loads automatically
- switch video track: potentially useful in the future
- ability to set the exact sync delay, and see changed delay in status bar: particularly good for external commentary
- automated action on every file load: really powerful tool obviously
- more precise seeking: a godsend for us, because most people don't have like 5-hour-long video files
- more precise frame advance/screenshots: useful for me because I take screenshots for SDA, maybe useful for you too
- global volume control: now saves between instances without having to resort to changing your system mixers
- video preview: some people might like this, works similarly to archive.org's preview screenshots (could work too for taking SDA screenshots if I wanted to do it automatically)
- better external subtitle support: could use useful if people submit more subtitles
- dvd navigation support: not needed for SDA, but obviously good for dvds
- tv/radio support: same... though if you have a capture card, you could play or even record for SDA if you are crazy enough
- playlist checkmark based on visited rather than completed: makes the checkmark a lot more useful
- favorites: I don't use these but I think some people do
- windows 7: better support for the upcoming OS

Changes made by QT:

- native vista/windows 7 look: looks nice, now smplayer can look identical to your OS if you want, instead of just really close
- tooltips in preferences: a lot easier than clicking help
- interface improvements/fixes: no more weird bug where some selections appear twice in the preferences, lots of other crap I forget

Changes made by mplayer:

- multithreading: helps speed of course
- d3d renderer: very fast video driver that doesn't disable aero on vista/7... its drawback is that it is relatively new and not as mature
- ffvorbis fix: previously, I said to set vorbis (not ffvorbis) codec to default because ffvorbis was broken in certain situations... if anyone is curious, I switched to kovensky's mplayer over sherpya's only because this fix was committed to vc after sherpya's most recent build

Changes made by video card manufacturers:

- nvidia embedding fix: with some cards, embedding mplayer in the window was a bit funky
- ati buffering fix: looooong overdue, now ati cards can use the fastest gl renderer with no hack required

New version, long time since the last one, so tons of improvements!

Updated compilation:

- smplayer r3190 (used to be r1806, to give you an indication)
- mplayer r29319
- qt 4.5.2
- gcc 4.4.0

Changes made by me:

- play/pause and stop/beginning icon switching: now I don't have to explain what those buttons do, also it looks sweet
- extra mouse functions like seeking, previous/next: now the wheel rewinds/fast forwards, left button clicks dvd menus, forward/back mouse buttons go forward/back
- more main toolbar buttons, although still hidden by default: redid the toolbars, look at screenshot to see it
- theme used to be based on nuvox, now my own theme called bravo, based on gnome brave 5.1.1: most obvious change, looks awesome IMHO
- clearlooks: I think this well-known qt theme looks a lot better than windows -- decision was done mainly for sliders though, you can change back in the menu
- faq/tips although somewhat outdated and many things don't apply exactly to this build: added them back, figured why not
- redid the menus again: I think the organization is even clearer now
- other stuff is minor, can't remember: includes some filter options, stuff like that

Changes made by smplayer:

- part01 etc: awesome feature for SDA, just load seg1 and the entire run loads automatically
- switch video track: potentially useful in the future
- ability to set the exact sync delay, and see changed delay in status bar: particularly good for external commentary
- automated action on every file load: really powerful tool obviously
- more precise seeking: a godsend for us, because most people don't have like 5-hour-long video files
- more precise frame advance/screenshots: useful for me because I take screenshots for SDA, maybe useful for you too
- global volume control: now saves between instances without having to resort to changing your system mixers
- video preview: some people might like this, works similarly to archive.org's preview screenshots (could work too for taking SDA screenshots if I wanted to do it automatically)
- better external subtitle support: could use useful if people submit more subtitles
- dvd navigation support: not needed for SDA, but obviously good for dvds
- tv/radio support: same... though if you have a capture card, you could play or even record for SDA if you are crazy enough
- playlist checkmark based on visited rather than completed: makes the checkmark a lot more useful
- favorites: I don't use these but I think some people do
- windows 7: better support for the upcoming OS

Changes made by QT:

- native vista/windows 7 look: looks nice, now smplayer can look identical to your OS if you want, instead of just really close
- tooltips in preferences: a lot easier than clicking help
- interface improvements/fixes: no more weird bug where some selections appear twice in the preferences, lots of other crap I forget

Changes made by mplayer:

- multithreading: helps speed of course
- d3d renderer: very fast video driver that doesn't disable aero on vista/7... its drawback is that it is relatively new and not as mature
- ffvorbis fix: previously, I said to set vorbis (not ffvorbis) codec to default because ffvorbis was broken in certain situations... if anyone is curious, I switched to kovensky's mplayer over sherpya's only because this fix was committed to vc after sherpya's most recent build

Changes made by video card manufacturers:

- nvidia embedding fix: with some cards, embedding mplayer in the window was a bit funky
- ati buffering fix: looooong overdue, now ati cards can use the fastest gl renderer with no hack required