» MPlayer and smplayer update

I've just updated the MPlayer and smplayer in the Packman repository to their latest respective development revisions.

I also enabled rtmpdump, mpg123 and mpcdec support.

MPlayer changed the way it handles closed captions in a recent revision, as it now takes an option to the -subcc parameter to select which channel to use. Because of that, I also had to update the (brilliant) smplayer GUI frontend for mplayer in order to support that change.

Needless to say, if you encounter any issue, please report it by email to packman with the domain links2linux.de

» mplayer-1.0rc2-5.pm.0

A new package of mplayer is available on Packman, which is built (statically) against the latest libdvdread and libdvdnav forks of the MPlayer project. It also includes a bugfix for CPU capability detection on AMD64. Please test, especially the DVD navigation and/or if you have an x86_64 host and reports issues or success - thanks :)

» MPlayer package updates

I made a few changes to the MPlayer package in the Packman repository, now version 1.0rc2-4.pm.4:

• -debuginfo package to help trace down crashes and such
• added libnemesi support for RTSP/RTP streaming (which is also available in the Packman repository)
• added the following Provides symbols to the MPlayer package: mplayer, mplayer-gui, MPlayer-gui, gmplayer and mencoder
• fixed FAAC support in mencoder

Please test and report success or issues to us, especially if you are using RTSP/RTP streaming.