DOS ain't dead - New MPLAYER

RayeR

CZ,
13.11.2007, 01:41

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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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david 13.11.2007, 08:27 @ RayeR	New MPLAYER Post reply
	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

RayeR

CZ,
13.11.2007, 10:22

@ david

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> 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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david

13.11.2007, 11:36

@ RayeR

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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.

RayeR

CZ,
13.11.2007, 12:20

@ david

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> 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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Japheth

Germany (South),
13.11.2007, 13:38

@ RayeR

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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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RayeR

CZ,
13.11.2007, 14:01

@ Japheth

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> 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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david 13.11.2007, 15:21 @ RayeR	New MPLAYER Post reply
	> 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.

Laaca

Czech republic,
14.11.2007, 00:24

@ RayeR

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> 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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RayeR

CZ,
14.11.2007, 01:12

@ Laaca

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> 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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Berlin, Germany,
18.11.2007, 12:28

@ RayeR

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> 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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