2006-03-28, 01:18 | Link #2 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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As far as I'm concernced, mplayer should be your default player. It's much easier to control during playback, and it deals better with ogms and mkvs.
But VLC does pick up the slack in some areas where the mplayer falters, like embedded soft subtitles, status checking during playback, playing on top of other windows. I'm actually doing that right now. Keep it around and it'll prove useful, but associate your files with the mplayer.
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2006-03-28, 01:37 | Link #3 |
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Thanks.
What are embedded soft subtitles? I just started doing the fan sub thing via torrents. I used to just go to the local anime club and watch them. tweaker ps What is the best way to take these avi's/h.264's, etc and burn them to useable DVDs? Is mencoder by best option? |
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Rozen Detective
Join Date: Dec 2005
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As for playing on top of other windows (I guess you mean stay-on-top-functionality?), there is the -ontop. It does not wirk for me, though. Quote:
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2006-03-28, 16:33 | Link #5 |
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I prefer MPlayer over VLC because it's just much more robust. The advantage of VLC is it's GUI and that you consequently find all functions by looking for them. MPlayer also has an optional GUI but that only touches the tip of the functions and if you need something specific you'll have to dig through the manpage (not necessarily a disadvantage but just not so straightforward).
I also agree with Jekyll that subtitle support in MPlayer is superior to the one in VLC and with some tweeking of the settings, you can actually make them look pretty. ^^ Though VLC gets better with each version and it evolved from a buggy barely useable player to a player that one could use as it's default. One thing I never really quite got the hang of (but also never really tried) is DVD playback with MPlayer. VLC does this very nicely and the few times I actually need this, I resort to VLC...
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2006-03-28, 19:41 | Link #6 |
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Maybe it's just me, but Mplayer sometimes cannot detect really old video cards in Windows, thereby shutting down. And their softsub support makes the font look absolutely humongous.
But, Mplayer shines at running anime on an old Win98 500mhz K6-2 processor, so what can I complain about?
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2006-03-29, 10:10 | Link #7 | |
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ffactor=3 subfont-autoscale=2 subfont-text-scale=4 subfont-blur=1.1 subfont-outline=3 subalign=2 subfont-encoding=unicode subpos=95 font=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf
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2006-03-30, 13:25 | Link #10 |
Rozen Detective
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Those options should work on Windows too. You just have to find out where to put the config file (named mplayer.ini in the build I use for windows). The font=-line would probably look like this: font=c:\windows\fonts\tahoma.ttf (or whatever font you want to use)
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