On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
command line media player. sorry, but that doesn't make sense, IMO.
I mean, if you're playing a video, you have a video window .. it's
graphical by nature.
> mplayer cannot understand DVD menus. That is the only problem mplayer
that's pretty basic functionality of a media player, no?
> I honestly tried vlc. But it was too GUI oriented,
$ vlc --help | wc -l
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
169
$ mplayer --help | wc -l
39
$
> all sorts of ugly
yes, in -current the vlc port can be built with aRTs and Esound
support, and it does use wxWidgets for the GUI. however, it does
have a curses UI: vlc -I curses.
> Now I again it is my opinion.
rtp stream server. sound server output (in -current). playing
mpeg movies in firefox.
> Have you tried to "study" mplayer's man pages, the html documentation
yes. it's a mess. how can e.g, mpg321 know that file.m3u is a playlist,
but mplayer needs to have -playlist specified? and if -playlist is
not specified, it complains about missing win32-codecs???
> It takes a long time to learn but once learnt you start feeling that it
actually, the more I use it, the less I like it.
> This article should give an idea.
I see a statements like:
It is a mature application that has no parallel. MEncoder, it companion
video encoder program, does a much better job than FFMPEG in transcoding
video, although it is a bit difficult to use and learn.
that have no basis. how and why MEncoder "does a much better job than
FFMPEG in transcoding video"? there is no comparison whatsoever
between ffmpeg transcoding and mplayer transcoding. further, mplayer/
mencoder are heavy users of libavcodec/libavformat (FFMpeg libraries).
that's what all those 'lavc*' options are.
$ ffmpeg -i input.avi -target ntsc-dvd dvd.mpg
takes any AVI input and outputs a DVD compliant NTSC mpeg2 PS. what
is the mplayer equivilent?
