Re: [Encode2mpeg-users] encoding for the Philips DVP642

[Adam M. <ha...@gm...>]

On 1/3/06, Giacomo Comes <enc...@us...> wrote:
[...]

> > I wonder if it is the version of mplayer/mencoder that I have...
> > The videos even look choppy when I play them with mplayer! They play
> exactly
> > the same (including the unfortunate choppiness) when played on the
> DVP642.
>
> Ah, this change things. If Mplayer shows the problem, you can hardly
> expect
> a hardware player to perform better.
>
> >
> > I'm currently using mplayer-1.0-0.20.pre7.2.fc4 and
> > mencoder-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4 ( from http://stentz.freshrpms.net )...
> I'll
> > try compiling my own and see if it performs better.
>
> It's not easy. fc4 comes with gcc 4 but mplayer1.0pre7 wont compile with
> it.
> You should first compile yourself a previous 3.x release of gcc and then
> use
> it to compile mplayer (you need also at least lame installed).
>
[...]

I found an easier way, all I had to do was install the 'compat-gcc-32' RPM
package, then symlink /usr/bin/gcc3 to /usr/bin/gcc32, and the mplayer
configure script takes care of the rest. It built just fine, and seemed to
be aware of numerous CPU-specific tweaks.

The videos look much less choppy, so I bet there was something in that othe=
r
mplayer build causing decreased performance. I'll share any further
improvements if I figure any out.

Thanks for ALL your help. I'm pretty impressed with the depth of knowledge
you have about video encoding!

--
Adam Monsen
http://adammonsen.com/blog/