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David Kühling 030251fdf6 mplayer: Make alsa work (use larger buffer), and use it instead of OSS This
reduces CPU load during playback, and also makes the audio mixer react much
more quickly (note: if mplayer automatic resampling kicks in now, we should
add -af-adv force=2 to make it use the fastest resampling filter)
2011-04-27 08:28:37 +02:00
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files MPlayer: enable volume control via Ben volume keys 2010-09-26 23:21:01 +04:00
patches mplayer: Make alsa work (use larger buffer), and use it instead of OSS This 2011-04-27 08:28:37 +02:00
Makefile mplayer: Make alsa work (use larger buffer), and use it instead of OSS This 2011-04-27 08:28:37 +02:00
README mplayer: Make alsa work (use larger buffer), and use it instead of OSS This 2011-04-27 08:28:37 +02:00

1. prepare your video files for Ben:

Use ffmpeg2theora or ffmpeg with vp8, vorbis, mkv.

When using theora, try to use a video width and height that are a multiple of
16.  Currently theora decoding displays strange borders, if size is not a
multiple of 16.

Try to use an audio sampling rate of 44100 for the vorbis audio.  If the
automatic resampling of the alsa OSS emulation is triggered, quality degrades
a lot.  Alternatively use 'mplayer -af resample=44100:1:1' on playback.

For encoding try to use libtheora 1.2 ("ptalarbvorm") which improves visual
qality a lot compared to previous versions.  Always encode with
constant-quality *not* giving a bitrate target.

Here's an example encoding command:

ffmpeg2theora  -o output.ogv input.avi \
	       -v8 -x320 -y176 \
	       -a0 --channels 2  --samplerate 44100 

Yielding a pretty high visual quality (-v8 i.e. "80%").  Use -v6 for
approximately half the bitrate with moderate quality.

2. play your files with Ben:

mplayer output.ogv

(Assumptions:

the following options should be set in your ~/.mplayer/config:

volume=10
vo=cvidix
screenw=320
screenh=240
fs=1
ac=tremor
quiet=1
)