MPlayer OS4 Native

[amigamad]

Good news mplayer is a much needed program for os 4. :-)

[ikir]

New screenshot released:
http://www.amigasoft.net/misc/mplayer1.jpg

[cecilia]

ikir wrote:
New screenshot released:
http://www.amigasoft.net/misc/mplayer1.jpg

yeah! a half nakid man! FINALLY!

oh, right, this is about Mplayer. very good! :lol:

[ikir]

@cecilia
Ah ah ah :-D

[CaptainHIT]

Wait, did i see MPlayer for MorphOS on the newly added picture or are my eyes gone bad? :-D

The 1st picture says: MPlayer for AmigaOS though! Weird...

If this is work being ported directly from the source of mplayer, i could understand (forgetting to replace the title). If it's used with MOSEmu, then it's not a native OS4 version.

So if it's a native OS4 version, and the 1st picture shows AmigaOS in title, but the later one says MorphOS, then i think that's suspicious... :-(

[Tomas]

How the heck could my comment be modded as a personal insult?? all i was saying was that his behaviour was childish. Is amazing that you mods dont moderate him, when he keeps bashing os4 users and developers for no reason. This moderation is very unfair i think... it is okay for someone to call a whole group of people stupid, morons and so on for using a platform/OS of their choice, but simply stating your opinion about this behaviour, that is a personal insult?

I often felt insulted by certain comments this person made.

[ikir]

@CaptainHIT
It is OS4 PPC native, no emulation in any way. Read the thread on AW.net. It is started on the MOS source, it is easy to port it than the Linux version :-)

[Argo]

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[cecilia]

oh, oh! :-o

[nicomen]

CaptainHIT:

I hope that was just some paranoia left over from the old days  I can ensure you mplayer is alive and kicking on AmigaOS 4 as a native application. It's not 100% done but only some tinkering left, if any. Running it under MOSemu which basically was just a small for-fun project never meant to be taken seriously was never an option.

For background on the mplayer port, I believe Andrea recently, a week or so ago started looking at the sources. He asked some dev questions that sounded familiar and indeed he was working on mplayer, something I also did some days last summer. I'm not too patient though, so I couldn't be bothered translating the CGFXv5 functionality to P96, so I just let it go and did other stuff (most should be on os4depot)

Anyway, Andrea got what I had done so that he didn't have to go thru the same hurdles, although there weren't that many that I can remember though. He, unlike me, has the stamina of hundred men and never gives up even if everything seems to be working against him so he has made some progress the last week, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's laying a final touch on the work right now.

As for the Mplayer for AmigaOS text, the reason could be this:

When I ported it I run some perl scripts thru the whole thing replacing MorphOS related symbols, defines and similar with AmigaOS related ones. That included text like "Mplayer for MorphOS". Andrea didn't do this approach but injected what he hadn't done from my port, AFAIK, hence you might have got a switch if he switched between mine and his/the original files, which he probably did while debugging and exploring the program

As for why I used MOS source, 1) I was asked to port it and was handed that source 2) There's no point doing the same work twice, EXCEPT some times it's faster to do ports yourself than fix broken code or brutal code changes (I prefer to add as little changes as possible and send back changes to maintatiners)
3) It's GPL dammit, hehe, even though I'm not a big fan of the license one should take advantage of one of its pros; sharing and helping the software itself survive in a best possible manner (ie existing on more platforms)

Hope that was a bit clarifying Somebody will of course find something to criticize negatively, hehe, but hey it's the Festivus season

[CD32Freak]

yeah! a half nakid man! FINALLY!

oh, right, this is about Mplayer. very good! :lol:

@cecilia
No, you are correct, cecilia. MPlayer is an abbreviation of ManPlayer. You can choose which kind of man you prefer and make him strip his clothes off a piece at a time :-D :lol:

[Brian Hoskins]

And I suppose you just happened upon this nakid man player application by pure accident... right?



Brian

There is an old addage which says "you can please some of the people, some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all the time".  Considering the moronic rivalry between "red" and "blue" in what sadly remains of the Amiga community, the chances of pleasing anyone are -- in fact -- substantially diminished.

You are correct.  I should have moderated his original post.  It was out of line, but to be honest considering the time constraints I was working in, I simply forgot to make adjustments to Kenny's original post.  My apologies.

That does not forgive however, the fact that you responded by calling him childish.  True or not, your response was just as bad as his original post in this thread.  It's this type of situation replying simply to call someone childish irritates the ongoing rivalries and stupidity between "camps" while even the concept of dividing a smoldering community into "camps" is moronic to begin with.

The point of my post to Kenny is that it's fine to support whatever you want to support, but that doesn't give you the right to continually trash the "other" platform.  You were right in your reply to state unequivocably that "if you don't like X, simply ignore it", because there was no reason for either Kenny's post, *or* (with respect) yours.

It's obvious that MorphOS users cannot exist in the same place as AmigaOS users and vice-versa.  As such, my recommendation is that everyone involved grow up a bit and leave everyone alone unless you have something constructive to say.  If you're not constructive, there's no reason to say it other than to make yourself feel superior, and that's a large part of the problems in the Amiga community.

The Mother's Rule applies here.

[cecilia]

CD32Freak wrote:

yeah! a half nakid man! FINALLY!

oh, right, this is about Mplayer. very good! :lol:

@cecilia
No, you are correct, cecilia. MPlayer is an abbreviation of ManPlayer. You can choose which kind of man you prefer and make him strip his clothes off a piece at a time :-D :lol:

Now THAT is one great piece of software. :banana:

[Rogue]

It's obvious that MorphOS users cannot exist in the same place as AmigaOS users and vice-versa.

Actually, I *do* think that MorphOS and AmigaOS users can co-exist. There are only really two problems: People like KennyR (which also exist on the red side) which cannot keep their mouth shut on anything positive (or negative) that comes up from the "opposite" site, and people like myself that have a hard time ignoring people like him and see the need to reply to that.

In this thread, I have kept myself at bay (which cannot be said about Kenny I'm afraid).

So the real solution is, indeed, for the KennyR's to shut up and not put out flamebait, and for the Rogue's to not swallow it.

[Brian Hoskins]

I think that MPlayer for OS4 is good news.  Furthermore, I think that any future cross software development be it MOS to OS4 or OS4 to MOS is good news for both sides.

This is just one of the ways that both sides can actually find common ground on.

Brian