sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core autoconf libtool
cd
git clone git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git
cd mplayer-build
./enable-mt
./init --shallow
make -j 6
Afterwards you can set an alias for the new mplayer executable (possibly in
~/.bash_aliases):alias mplayer=~/mplayer-build/mplayer/mplayer
Start mplayer using the option -lavdopts threads=4 or similar, depending on the number of CPU cores. You can also add the following to your ~/.mplayer/config file:lavdopts=fast=1:threads=4
If that's still not fast enough, you can try disable deblocking filtering:lavdopts=fast=1:threads=4:skiploopfilter=nonrefor even
lavdopts=fast=1:threads=4:skiploopfilter=allAlso make sure to select a decent
vo option, e.g. try -vo xv or -vo gl.
12 comments:
Awesome, nice little tutorial. Many thanks !
Thanks, you're welcome!
Didn't work for me. In conky I still see only one core (of four) loaded to 100% and others 0-5%, and of course stuttering.
Any clue?
P.S. I'm playing 1080p movie.
neutrino, are you sure you actually ran the newly compiled executable? Or maybe you forgot the "./enable-mt" step?
Followed instructions above and compiling went wel, but i have no video output (XV). mplayer -vo help gives me:
MPlayer SVN-r31642-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame
Tried several methods to compile mplayer with mt, but all seems to lack the XV drivers.
Anyone?
W.F., try installing the libxv-dev package, reconfigure, and rebuild. Maybe that'll fix the issue.
was installed, but i got it working now. for some reason another mplayer executable was running instead of the newly compiled one. executing the full path e.g. /home/user/mplayer-build/mplayer/mplayer someH264.mp4 did the trick. But some MTS files do not play well though (Canon Legria HF200), audio / video sync problems.
I compiled the multithreaded version, and sure enough, mplayer now uses two cores. However, it's also suddenly much slower, the frame rate is lower than when it was using a single core, and it's using only about 15% of the second core!
Thanks for this tutorial, but it simply doesn't seem to be working well for me.
what are the implications of ffmpeg "fast" option do you know?
The manpage says:
fast (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 only)
Enable optimizations which do not comply to the specification and might potentially cause problems, like simpler dequantization, simpler motion compensation, assuming use of the default quantization matrix, assuming YUV
4:2:0 and skipping a few checks to detect damaged bitstreams.
3 years I've had my netbook and I didn't realize it could play back 720p smoothly all along. Just had to enable multi-core decoding and XvMC acceleration.
Thanks man. You made my day.
Awesome! You're very welcome!
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