[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer 1.4.0 release

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi Erik!

On 2019-04-03 21:25 +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On 4/3/19 13:22, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:34:15AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:29:17PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
[...]
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate some help, like compiling and testing latest
> > > > SVN version on different operating systems (maybe with multiple
> > > > compilers).
> > >
> > > FWIW I have just updated my SVN checkout to the latest revision, started
> > > configure (which updated the ffmpeg git repo) and compiled MPlayer
> > > successfully on an up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04 system. I then tested one
> > > random video which played fine.
> > >
> > > I have used the distribution compiler, gcc 7.3.0.
> >
> > After installing some development libraries it builds video-outs of xv
> > and gl. On this system, -vo xv does not work correctly in fullscreen,
> > because it does not draw the black bars, except the top one (left &
> > right, or bottom one are missing). Thos wirks fine with -vo gl.
> >
> > This does not happen with the Ubuntu MPlayer package:
> > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
> > Here both -vo xv and -vo gl produce black borders as needed.
> >
> > Since I have not used a self-compiled MPlayer on that system before,
> > I cannot say if this is a recent problem or not.  I intend to test
> > the current SVN version of MPlayer on another system where I have used
> > self-compiled MPlayer exclusively, soon.
>
> Testing on my older notebook still running Ubuntu 14.04 I do not see
> the same problems with -vo xv, but similar one when changing the
> window size (but not in fullscreen mode). I think I have seen this
> for quite some time, so it is not really recent. It might be newer than
> MPlayer 1.3.0. Those problems do not occur with -vo gl.
>
> Compiler version on that system is:
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.9.4
>
> I have tested a more or less random selection of video files and a DVD
> without issues (except the -vo xv issue mentioned above, of course).

Thank you for testing!

I will have a look into the vo xv issues. Sounds like it could be
a regression.

About the warnings, it is of course not a good practice. Maybe we
can reduce them somewhat after the release is out. I guess some
significant amount is because of the way we build with internal
FFmpeg.


  Alexander