>>> Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay >>> that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : >>> media-video/mplayer-uau. >>> >>> It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates >>> a binary called "mplayer-uau" which can be installed at the same time as >>> the official mplayer package. >> >> I gave that a try and it smoothed everything right out, so I guess it >> was a CPU issue after all. Thank you for your help. How is >> mplayer-uau different from mplayer-mt? Maybe mplayer-mt can't be > > mplayer from multimedia overlay is a replacement for the regular, official > mplayer with the only change being ffmpeg-mt. It can't be installed > alongside regular mplayer because it's a replacement and multithreading can > be enabled/disabled at runtime. > > mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git", before > the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. > While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt patch, mplayer-uau > adds more patches.
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? Do you know what other significant patches mplayer-uau adds? - Grant
