Post FeedJust a small update: MPUI 1.1.6
(March 23, 2006)
I just released MPUI 1.1.6. This is mainly a small bugfix release that only adds very few features. The next big step will be the rewrite of the options/configuration system.
For those who are interested in helping with MPUI (besides what is written on MPUI’s website), I do have two other tasks left to do:
- This is for everyone: I need lots of example files to test with. If you have small (~10MB max) media files in exotic formats (mkv? nut?), with exotic configurations (17 audio tracks? embedded subtitles?) or exotic codecs (vp6? snow?), please make them available to me. Do NOT send me e-mails with attached media files unless I ask for it! In particular, I could need auxiliary subtitle files in all those ugly formats that exist (vobsub? ssa? whatever, I don’t even know them all). I do not care about the content of the files (porn? :), as long as it’s no illegal stuff.
- I could need help from someone who is good at creating icons, pictograms and all that stuff. I’d like to replace the minimalistic MPUI icons with nice and modern true-color ones. If you have some experience in painting or drawing images at 16×16 pixels and would like to improve MPUI’s looks, please send me an e-mail so we can discuss the details.
Hi Martin, i think ive found a little bug.
If MPUI is maximized and then set to full screen and exits full screen things start to get messed up. The seek and control bars dissappear and when going back into full screen it doesnt really go back into full screen. this effect can be undone by unmaximizing mpui.
Thank you for pointing it out. The fullscreen logic gets somewhat confused if the window was in maximized state — I’ll try to fix it in the next release.
You can take a look @
http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery
Plus icons in menus are not really the windows way, is there any possibility you could remove those?
Another request…is there any way you could combine mpui’s and mplayer’s code so they function as only one exe…would also help with the single instance mode I guess
for mime types?
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4393
a lot of icons also at kde-look.org and gnome-look.org and most with flexible licences
The icon sets are nice, but MPUI has some very specific icons like deinterlacing and stuff. That’s why I need original content :)
What exactly is “the windows way” of icons in menus?
Oh yes, I’d also love to see that. But MPUI is written in Delphi, and MPlayer in C, so even if someone manages to turn MPlayer into a library, there would be no way to link MPUI+MPlayer together.
i think if someone can compile the MPlayer as a dll then you can load it in MPUI, call interface functions to play/stop/pause,…, just a thought.
Jason: Having an mplayer.dll isn’t an improvement over the mplayer.exe we use now, I think :)
maybe we can use a wrapper?
What kind of wrapper do you mean? Something like "let’s pack mplayer.exe into MPUI.exe, copy it into %TEMPDIR% on execution, and delete it afterwards"? This would be possible, indeed — but this is so butt ugly that I don’t even *think* about implementing it :)
maybe ‘nbinder’ will work for you jason.
http://www.nkprod.ro/nb.htm
I prefer the current setup, dont change anything! :)
I like the new version of the player and am busy testing out all the features. The problem is I can’t play Quicktime files with the FFmpeg QDM2 audio decoder. This results in no sound for my clip which plays fine in version 1.1.4. Same thing with some of the rm clips where I get sound but no video.
cheryl: How big are these files? I’d like to have one to test it myself …
The files would be around 10 Mb max. How do I send them to you? Email is out of the question as my address can’t handle attachments that big.
Is there an option to install the codecs package instead from the official Mplayer site and then try to play the files ?
cheryl: Using the original codecs may help, but the libavcodec codecs may have a higher priority, so
–vfm qtvideo,may be required.Unfortunately I’m not very knowledgeable with the command line part of mplayer so I have practically no idea how to install the codecs and do what you suggested. Sorry.
I tried converting the files to avi format and they played just fine in MPUI. So it’s probably just a buggy codec package imho.
cheryl i think you need to go into Options>Additional MPlayer parameters.
big thanks for fixing the full screen bug :)
Hey Martin :)
I am sure I am not the only one to notice this but the software volume control is not working with the latest mplayer.exe build included with MPUI 1.1.7; however the mplayer build from 1.1.6 works with MPUI 1.1.7 fine .
also in the roadmap i think you may have a duplicate under normal priority:
save last volume
save volume between sessions
Yay! The qt files that were acting up are playing normally in v 1.1.7. Thanks for fixing it.
I noticed the software volume problem too. Hey Ben when you described using an earlier build, does this mean that I’d have to install only MPUI 1.1.7 in my earlier MPUI directory.
cheryl the mplayer.exe from the 1.1.6 release works with the software volume control, you can use that with the mpui.exe from 1.1.7. Hope that makes sense. :)
Yup. Thanks Ben.