#437 An "Auto" setting for Audio & Video output drivers

[had9]

Hi,

I have seen in other mplayer front-ends a simple "auto" setting in the individual drop-down menu's of both the Video and Audio output drivers.

I believe that with this "Auto" setting whichever computer mplayer get's first run on (especially portable front-end version)..It would simply mean that the front-end would best choose which audio driver to use and which video driver to use.

So for Video output, I think 'dsound' is currently best recommended for Intel computers whereas 'win32' is best recommended for AMD, especially AMD Turion - I may be totally wrong.

Still something to consider.

[dE_logics]

I suggest Smplayer should default to XV, and if the exit code is problematic or mplayer crashes, a different drivers must be automatically tried in 'auto' mode.

If FPS is too low in one drivers, another driver should be tried (in auto mode).

[Shiny]

I'm also highly in favor of this. In the advent of 10bit H264 videos, it's cumbersome to change from vdpau to xv to play a single 10bit file, although the next one could easily be played back with vdpau again. Regular mplayer2 manages to detect this and choose the video output accordingly. Fittingly, mplayer2 now supports vdpau snapshots, so deactivating this video filter would also be handled be automatically.