H264 mp4 files are not playing or playing and hanging

[bsw11]

I am having this problem on an I860 with an NVIDIA GTX470 card - no other players have any problems -

I am using the 3585 version with r32198 mplayer. I tired 64bit mplayer and it did not work. I have it set to Intel MT.

I hope there is a fix for this.

Thanks
Barry

[redxii]

I just tried all the videos I had archived that are .mp4 & H264 from various different groups and they all worked with r3585 & r32198 Intel MT. What videos in particular aren't working?

[loftwyr]

I'm having the exact same problem with the same video card. Also, it can cause my entire system to grind to a halt, no small feat for a core I7 system, until I can kill smplayer.

Playing the same files directly through mplayer doesn't have this problem.

[redxii]

Anyway, what version you using? I compiled r3585 with different Qt versions and don't exactly mark what is using what. Unlikely but maybe the Qt version is the problem.

Try this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smplaye ... e/download
SMPlayer r3590 compiled with QT 4.7.0 and MPlayer r32198.

I tried all my .mp4 files that use the 'ffh264' codec and had no issues. Sherpya has a newer MPlayer build available but I deemed it unfit just because of an aspect ratio problem with one of the videos I tested; http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

I kept all the anime/Japanese dramas I downloaded for some time and other videos so I have a bit of a selection to test with.

[bsw11]

I just updated to 3590 and same deal - hangs the player and after that happens I cannot get SMPlayer to start - just hangs on start up.

I don't get their whole setup - why can't we use EVR and Graphic assited H264?? I really like this player, but it needs to keep up with the times.

It still has a lousy playlist system - EXCEPT how it keeps individual settings per file - no one comes close to that feature. Though I would like to be able to set the demuxer for .dv files instead of changing every single one of them.

Is there any debug I can run to see why it is hanging during starttup?

[rvm]

I just updated to 3590 and same deal - hangs the player and after that happens I cannot get SMPlayer to start - just hangs on start up.

I don't get their whole setup - why can't we use EVR and Graphic assited H264?? I really like this player, but it needs to keep up with the times.

That is something that has to be implemented in mplayer.

It still has a lousy playlist system - EXCEPT how it keeps individual settings per file - no one comes close to that feature. Though I would like to be able to set the demuxer for .dv files instead of changing every single one of them.

Is there any debug I can run to see why it is hanging during starttup?

There's an option in preferences -> advanced -> logs which allows to save the smplayer log to a file.

[redxii]

It has gpu acceleration in Linux versions but not Windows. I don't know how likely they are to implement it in Windows, they can't even get audio cds to work in Windows versions.

[redxii]

Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer ... z/download

[bsw11]

What does this version of Mplayer do? Do I need to set my video output to a specific choice for this to work? How come no EVR choice? It's all very confusing.

[redxii]

Extract it somewhere it doesn't matter where then go into the SMPlayer preferences and point it to the new mplayer.exe under General - MPlayer.exe executable.

Or give me a specific .mp4/h264 file I can test and help RVM narrow down the problem. As I said I have hundreds of files fitting .mp4 & H264 (ffh264) and have no issues. I can play up to 40Mbit (which is Blu-ray's max) or more files with a multithreaded in MPlayer and my processor is from 2006.