DOS ain't dead

Hi,
as previously discussed, somebody of us got mplayer crashed (SIGILL) when playing a WMV file without -nosound. After mailing with Michael and testing, here's the new version which doesn't crash on my system. RR, try it too.

http://mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/mplayer-nosse.7z

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Hi,

I have tested previous mplayer in EDR-DOS7.1.0.8 with ESS Allegro sound card and wmv files works 100% and sound was good quality
But sound doesn`t work with my Sound Blaster Live and sbinit.com

David

> I have tested previous mplayer in EDR-DOS7.1.0.8 with ESS Allegro sound

It crashed only on some machines (for me when using QEMM memory manager, now it's OK).

> card and wmv files works 100% and sound was good quality
> But sound doesn`t work with my Sound Blaster Live and sbinit.com

And do you hear sound from other dos programs? If you have P4 system, then SB Live emulation will very probably not work. I suggested that would be nice if mplayer adopts mpxplay sblive direct driver, but it wouldn't be trivial because this apps uses different compiler (lot of code is in ASM).

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> It crashed only on some machines (for me when using QEMM memory manager,
> now it's OK).

tested with jemmex by Japheth

> And do you hear sound from other dos programs?

I use ESS drivers for Win3.11-98 and launch it from DOS.

> If you have P4 system, then SB Live emulation will very probably not work.

ESS audio tested with P3.

SB-live works with HX-Extender and Cubic player. But I have strong problem to initialize sound blaster live. The sbinit.com upload to unused memory location, I tried it with EMM386 and Himem from FreeDOS! But it doesn`t work with any suitable memory managers, should I set up anything?

SB-live tested with AMD K-7

The main problem with mplayer is display in high resolution.
It doesn`t work on ATI M3 card but Nvidia seems to be better.

> I use ESS drivers for Win3.11-98 and launch it from DOS.

I don't understand why do you use ESS drivers for SB live?
it is compatible? Or you have 2 soundcards (like me before :)?

> SB-live works with HX-Extender and Cubic player. But I have strong problem
> to initialize sound blaster live. The sbinit.com upload to unused memory
> location, I tried it with EMM386 and Himem from FreeDOS! But it doesn`t
> work with any suitable memory managers, should I set up anything?

I didn't tried SB emu drivers with freedos. They also crashed with QEMM 9. Only working way for ma was DOS 6.22/7.1 and EMM386.

> The main problem with mplayer is display in high resolution.
> It doesn`t work on ATI M3 card but Nvidia seems to be better.

On my nvidia I can set higher VESA modes without problems.

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> I didn't tried SB emu drivers with freedos. They also crashed with QEMM 9.
> Only working way for ma was DOS 6.22/7.1 and EMM386.

As Wengier Wu once found out, the DOS SB16 emulator for SB Live works best if the emulated IRQ is 5. Emulated IRQ 7 apparently has some problems.

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MS-DOS forever!

> As Wengier Wu once found out, the DOS SB16 emulator for SB Live works best
> if the emulated IRQ is 5. Emulated IRQ 7 apparently has some problems.

I hadn't problem with SB emu on previous mobo (Abit BX133-Raid), on new mobo i tried varius setting and nothing works. I mentioned it before about SERR# problem, according to some mail from creative support who explained it.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> I don't understand why do you use ESS drivers for SB live?
> it is compatible? Or you have 2 soundcards (like me before :)?

Ok, I use on two computers, notebook DELL and PC with ESS audio and SB-live.

> Hi,
> as previously discussed, somebody of us got mplayer crashed (SIGILL) when
> playing a WMV file without -nosound. After mailing with Michael and
> testing, here's the new version which doesn't crash on my system. RR, try
> it too.
>
> http://mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/mplayer-nosse.7z

Tested.
1:\> this version of DOS MPlayer behaves behaves identical to the previous one on my machine
2:\> I've never had any problem with SB16 emulation on my SB Live! 5.1 card with MPlayer
3:\> DOS port of MPlayer is much faster than Win port via HX-DOS extender
4:\> DOS port has few annoying bugs:
a) -fs parameter breaks the aspect ratio of video
b) I can't choose the output resolution - it is chosen automaticaly and sometimes it choose 640x400 which hasn't the standard 4:3 ratio so video is deformed
c) the image synchronisation with monitor is buggy. I don't know whether MPlayer tries to synchronize with monitor but does it wrong or if is unsynchronised. If is it the first possibility it would be good to add a option for disabling it.
5:\> We need some manual for dummies:
a) how to display subtitles in non english coding (east-europian, cyrillic)
b) how to play DVDs (BTW, Quickview can't play DVDs, so MPlayer is the only possibility)

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DOS-u-akbar!

> 1:\> this version of DOS MPlayer behaves behaves identical to the previous
> one on my machine

It's good when anything else was broken :)

> 2:\> I've never had any problem with SB16 emulation on my SB Live! 5.1
> card with MPlayer

On older HW, be happy.

> b) I can't choose the output resolution - it is chosen automaticaly and
> sometimes it choose 640x400 which hasn't the standard 4:3 ratio so video
> is deformed

You can change resolution with eg: -zoom -x 1024 -y 768 but it will break aspect ratio

> c) the image synchronisation with monitor is buggy. I don't know whether
> MPlayer tries to synchronize with monitor but does it wrong or if is
> unsynchronised. If is it the first possibility it would be good to add a
> option for disabling it.

Yes. Try to play with -vsync -double -nodouble options. For me -nodouble gives best result but still not 100% smooth

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> testing, here's the new version which doesn't crash on my system. RR, try
> it too.
>
> http://mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/mplayer-nosse.7z

Works nice. Thanks!

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