rev13-test8 released
- Multiple player instances!
- Support is still preliminary. There should be no major issues but the handling is not yet fully fleshed out and has these restrictions:
- Only the first player instance is able to have a playlist.
- Files will always load in the active instance.
- Added subtitle scale slider to the inspector.
- Audio equalizer is now interactive for binaries that have the SMPlayer patch.
- Support for selecting VOB-subtitles.
- Clicking on timestamps will cycle them through current time, remaining time and total time.
- Allow dragging dvd folders onto the player and application icon and make detection of them a bit less pedantic.
- Don't load local MPlayer configuration files to avoid conflicts.
- Hide the player window if it's on the same screen that's used for fullscreen.
- Fix the prerelease autoupdate switch not having any effect.
- Fix stream/chapter ordering issue with more than 10 entries.
- Fix an issue that caused playlist issues for files with multibyte characters and for restarting dvd-playback.
- Fix audio/stream cycle buttons in fullscreen.
Download the update from the PrereleaseVersions page.
Comments
It's great to see that you are working on the interactive audio eq, even though it is not quite there yet:
If the audio equlizer in the test7 version was set, the new test8 returns the Eq to that setting every time a new video is loaded. The only way I could make it start from flat was to open test7 set it to flat and apply. Now test 8 always starts from flat, which is way better...
If I open a movie and turns one audio frequency up full and then back to middle (flat), the audio level drops to a very low level. If I use the preset flat, then the level comes back (even though the controls did not visually move).
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If trying to skip an mpeg to another time position, the image often gets completely garbled and sometimes freezes completely.
This one is useful for tests http://www.lineaudio.se/div/TESTBILD.mpg
After having played a movie and closed it (wihout letting it finish by itself) movie MPE will not play another until shut/restarted. I can however drop a new movie ontop MPE and play it while the old one is playing successfully.
If I go to window/select main player, then it plays a new movie without having to restart MPE after having shut the previous one.
I did all these tests wihout any advanced/additional options activated.
/Roger Jonsson/MacMini 2.53
The audio equalizer issue is because the equalizer was changed from an application-global to a per-file scope. The preferences system will still load the global values if there are no local ones but if you change anything, it will only be saved in the local scope.
I don't intend to add a workaround for this as it only affects users of the test versions. What you can do is reset your preferences by deleting the "hu.mplayerhq.mplayerosx.extended.plist" in your Preferences or you can try to remove the MPEAudioEqualizerValues entry (and maybe the MPEVideoEqualizerValues as well).
I'll have to look into the mpeg issue.
After trashing the "hu.mplayerhq.mplayerosx.extended.plist" the Audio Eq works, but always starts disabled on each move. When enabling it on an mpeg, the image always freezes, gets garbled or I get a green window, but as the audio keeps playing I can confirm that the audio EQ works. Sometimes the application freeze and has to be forced quit after attempting this.
I misspelled movie ("move") above.
I can not find any MPEAudioEqualizerValues or MPEVideoEqualizerValues files.
Increasing one fequency band of the Audio Eq (the rest flat/middle) results in very much lower audio level.
There are still isssues with seeking in MPEG files, which seem to have been fixed in MPlayer in the meantime...
If all values of the audio equalizer are 0, it's automatically switching into an optimized mode that practically disables it. As soon as you set one value, it actually starts to process values. The audio being quieter then is a known issue of the equalizer and I don't know enough about it to fix it, unfortunately.