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!!! IT WORKS AGAIN !!! (Announce)

posted by Khusraw E-mail, Bucharest, Romania, 21.12.2009, 09:56
(edited by Khusraw on 21.12.2009, 10:16)

> Laaca wrote:
>
> > Since we can use the DJGPP version by Michal Kostylev I don't see any
> > reason why to bother with Windows version under HX.
>
> Heh ??? :confused: Having newer versions, some of the DGJPP versions can't
> play OGG Theora at all :-(

The version I use plays ogg Theora without problems, and there was no Mplayer important update since Mik's latest DJGPP port release. Actually the more recent Mplayer svn Windows builds are slower and generally work worse for most common needs.

> > (The absolutely great feature of DJGPP version is ability to use the
> > hardware video acceleration via VIDIX library)
>
> This is great ... although I haven't tested it yet.

Mplayer runs very slow under HX because lack of support for hardware color space conversion, whilst Mik's port has such support using VIDIX video output. Unfortunately VIDIX still doesn't have drivers for many new video cards.

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