Homebrew MPlayer_CE v0.71 RELEASED!

[Eddie_Brock]

MPlayer_CE has been updated again, looks like lots of improvements this time.

Changelog
0.71
Improved memory management, due to MPlayer hanging if out of memory. Also new feature added if you press 1 twice it will show mem 1 and mem 2 info.
Driver improved with autodetection error, on error the device is reinitied and read is retried, meaning it is very hard to hang the device.
EHCI Improvements have been made and now more usb devices are supported.
Now you don't need the fat partition to be primary or active, patch in libfat and now libfat searches in all partitions to find a fat partition.
If test.dol here says usb device is 100% compatible and a device is not working in the last MPlayer revision. Then there isn't a fat partition on the device, as a lot of people use ntfs instead.
Restore Points fixed, in previous release when you quit restore point was not saved, now quit or power off saves restore point and can resume properly. Delete your'e previous restore point incase it is corrupted, and check SD isn't locked.
Improved smb connections, will always reconnect. (so you can remove shares from pc, and re-enable them, MPlayer will reconnect, so it's a easier way to test smb if you have problems setting it up).
Improved stream initilization.
Fixed green lines at the top of screen whilst loading MPlayerCE.
Video files (which may be badly encoded) that may have unexpectedly froze at some point during playback in previous releases may playback without a possible glitch (such as that freeze/hang).
Change in MPlayer but it's only for testing usb2, now you can load a external driver from sd. If you copy the driver to sd that driver will be used instead of the internal driver, more details (drivers) will be added to google code at a later date, thanx to hermes's patch.
Finnally found/fixed the problem with network and usb2 conflicts, because the driver was using a bad device the name /dev/usb2 is good, but /dev/usb/ehc is bad Because it is used by the network driver 1 2 In previous releases there was a possible conflict.
Autoload implemented, so if the next file has a very similar name it will autoload it. Using a levenshtein distance of 2. So if you need to change only 1 or 2 letter/numbers then it is similar. Examples: film.part1.avi > film.part2.avi only 1 change is needed to get the same name. Also house.s01e09.avi > house.s01e10.avi works, (2 changes).
Removed the need to load fonts twice when you load a video file as the fonts have to be loaded to adjust to the film size, 2 fonts are always loaded. 1 for menu and 1 for subs. Now font for subs are loaded only if it's needed, and the font face is cached, so fonts are loaded faster, making the video file load quicker.
Improved error reading streams/files (example if you remove share from your pc then MPlayer stops film when cache has finished, now while MPlayer has cache it will try to read again, so if you enable share again then MPlayer will continue playing without any problems, only stops video file if can't read, or cache is empty. Now MPlayer is more robust on errors). If you unplug & plug usb MPlayer will stop film because usb is off and you need to remount. But if you get an error reading from usb or sd etc MPlayer will try to read again. (For example when a hd usb's motor stops due to inactivity on pause then when you press start again MPlayer will use cache and can recieve an error because motor is not ready).
Many other small fixes and code cleanup.

Edit: Link for download.

 

[prowler]

awsome. going to download it now

 

[Midna]

Sweet, Venom. I'll try this out right away!

 

[pika9323]

Nice.
Lets see if my drive not Freezes anymore.

 

[ph15h]

Thank you. Downloading............ now.

 

[spongebobburner]

hello my friends hat anybody a wad file ;-)

 

[prowler]

hello my friends hat anybody a wad file ;-)

hello to your friends hat too.

 

[broksonic]

Thanks

Hope i can get this version to regonise my HDD

 

[Ossot]

Sadly, I think what used to be random 3-4min freezes while watching videos has turned into random 5-10min lock ups.. =/

 

[riahc3]

Any translations out?

(or can we do the translations ourselves?)

 

[Eddie_Brock]

When I was on the page yesterday, I didn't notice any, yet.

Checking today, I see there is an Italian version now available for download. Keep an eye on this website for more details.

 

[Wabsta]

Hmm, I hope this fixes the SMB problems I have..

 

[Eddie_Brock]

I am still running 0.7 (I haven't had time at home yet to update) however I got SMB setup extremely easy from a windows computer. Where are you having problems?

 

[thecyanaura]

I hate to be a nuisance, but I'm looking to install this when I get home from work today simply so I can stream xvids over Windows SMB. does anyone have a link to a guide explaining how to set this up? I'm very tech savy, I've just never messed with SMB over wifi.

Thanks in advance.

also, just from my short bit of research on Mplayer CE, I've noticed people mention only using FAT drives through USB. I'm assuming it can read NTFS over wifi, correct?

Thanks again.

edit: I believe I've figured it out but if anyone has a link readily available, i'll take it.

 

[UranusKiller]

http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/w/list < visit here for help with config/setups.

 

[Eddie_Brock]

Yes, it read my NTFS drive thru Wi-Fi no problem.

A simple explanation of getting SMB working in windows;
1) Right-click on the folder you plan to share in Windows and enable "File and Printer Sharing"
2) Find smb.ini(or smb.cfg I can't remember) inside your \apps\Mplayer_ce folder, and open it
3) Edit it to read: #Samba share1 (smb1:/)
ip1=
share1=(must be in Quotation marks if it has spaces!)
user1=
pass1=
4)Save and you're done. As long as that PC is turned on and connected, you should be good to go.

If you have any issues, please revert to the MPlayer Configs Setup page. I am merely telling you what I did to make it work.

 

[thecyanaura]

thanks for the help all.

I'm still having trouble getting mplayer to talk to my computer, but I'll figure that out. What I can't figure out is why i keep getting -1017 error when trying to install ios36 as 202 using the USB2.0 program.

I have:
cIOS rev 13
4.1U
I know I'm trucha signed, so I don't know what the problem is. I even used trucha bug restorer to trucha sign 36 again.

Any suggestions?

edit: I may have answered my own question again, as I believe USB2.0 is integrated into rev12 and above. My only question would then be, did using the Trucha restorer to trucha sign IOS 36 again do any damage or is there anythng I should do to make sure everything is peachy?

Thanks in advance (again) for any help you can give me. Now I'm off to figure out why I can't get the Wii to talk to my computer.

 

[UranusKiller]

you require the cIOS for mplayer, re run it using IOS249 at selection screen

watch it complete.

 

[thecyanaura]

UK, I believe I tried that, but I will try again tonight.

Just for clarification, will I get the "error connecting to SMB1" message if I do not have this cIOS installed? I can get into mplayerCE, although I haven't tried to do anything but connect to SMB.

Sorry for being a pain, I've done my research but I just can't seem to find the answers.

Thanks again.

 

[UranusKiller]

you don't need the cIOS but it strengthens wifi and gives usb2 support, so it is ideal.