MPlayer

KnoppMyth 5.5 released

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It has been a long time since KnoppMyth was last updated (Spetember 2007), but now the new version is ready. R5.5 is also called “Bone Marrow” and you can read why here. Nice going, Cecil!
Here is a list of some [...]


MythFace - the lean (skinny?) MythTV frontend

If you think the official MythTV frontend is too much of a beast to start, when all you want to do is watch a show, then MythFace might be for you.
Built because the official frontend was unstable, it uses MPlayer to do the actual playback, NFS to mount the files and GMyth to talk to [...]


LinuxMCE 7.10 scheduled for release end of November

This version will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 and the new features are:

Support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback, as well as integration with MPlayer
1080p on the nVidia graphics platform
Better integration with MythTV
The inclusion of VDR, popular with the European Satellite users
Lots of bug fixes and tweaks

[Via linuxmce.org]


MPlayer 1.0 release candidate 2

It is not very often that we see releases from the MPlayer team, but they have just announced one, or well… a release candidate…
There are lots and lots of changes, many of which come with FFmpeg.

Real RTSP authentication
H.264 decoding speedup
MPEG-1/2 speedups

The complete changelog is here.