[luau] Fast MPEG player

[MonMotha]

I'd use mplayer except I truely dislike their "business practices" (they 
flame you as the user every opportunity they get).  That's not the major 
issue though.  The issue with mplayer is that it complains that my 
binutils are too old (maybe a year at most).  I've compiled bunches of 
stuff on those binutils (including various mpeg libs) and nothing has 
had problems, but I can trust them that they need the new binutils. 
Now, I've upgraded binutils before by hand and let me just say it's not 
an opportunity I'd like to repeat.

I'm under the impression that mplayer uses ffmpeg for mpeg decoding, 
anyone know of a nice simple frontend for ffmpeg (I've heard it's 
decently fast).

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
> To: "LUAU Mailing List" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:23 PM
> Subject: [luau] Fast MPEG player
> 
> 
> 
>>I have a P166MMX laptop that I'd like to watch some movies on.  These
>>movies are going to be on VCD, but I'm having trouble finding a linux
>>MPEG player that's fast enough to be acceptable (I know it can be done,
>>windows does it and if an ipaq can play a divx...) and isn't written by
>>a bunch of idiots who want to flame their users at every opportunity
>>they get (mplayer).
>>
>>Any suggestions?  Or does anyone happen to have a recovery CD for a
>>Presario 1075 so I can at least put windows back on it and use the
>>hardware MPEG assist?
>>
>>--MonMotha
>>
> 
> Two things may work...
> MPlayer compiled with gcc-2.95 may make enough optimizations to play with
> enough speed on your laptop.  I've heard that 2.96 will say it compiles with
> architecture specific optimization but it ignores it instead.  I don't know
> about the status of that in 3.0x.
> The other thing may be... Windows Media Player.  Yes, it is an ugly solution
> in Windows, but it is incredibly fast compared to any other media player
> that I've tried in Linux.
> 
> Try it with the free downloadable demo of CrossOver 1.1.0.
> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/download_demo.php
> 
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