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New DJGPP Mplayer build from SVN (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 26.01.2012, 04:52

WOW! It is looking like a good year for DOS. Now, in 2012 we are able to finally play our videos with the "modern" Intel HDA sound in all its glory! Many thanks to you and the fine folks of this forum for making the synthesis happen.

TESTED! It works well on my little Acer Aspire one netbook (Intel 945GCM onboard video and Intel HDA audio). The caveat was I had to get around the pixel aspect problem of the stretching which occurs. All 4x3 content displays streched in VESA modes, which are 4:3 like 640x480, and 800x600. I believe this problem will also occur on all fixed-pixel 16:10 LCD monitors (which these days is VIRTUALLY all LCD monitors sold). Unless you have native 1:1 display drivers for DOS for your video card. On my netbook, only 640x480 and 800x600 are available VBE 2.0 modes). The native resolution of the display is 1024x600 pixels.

Using these options put the 4x3 material in proper aspect ratio:

Mplayer -vo vesa -monitorpixelaspect 1.200 -zoom -fs -x 800 -y 600 -really-quiet

Did I calculate the monitorpixelaspect ratio correctly? I used this (16/10) / (4/3) to get 1.20. Or, have I misunderstood that option and should it just be (1024/600) / (800/600) = 1.280? Yes, I did RTFM!!

Audio works very well. Occasionally it would get stuck and / or out of sync when FF or REW videos, but overall, it is exceptional.

Insurmountable problems remain: The DOS 2 GB limit! (or is this version 'patched' to allow up to 4 GB - 1 file sizes?)

One REQUEST: Is it possible to provide a binary WITHOUT networking or support for external codecs? These options add to bloat & I feel very few will use them. It would be very much appreciated!

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