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Not sure if you are aware of this project, http://mpv.io/, but they are a fairly new project that
does a bit of melding of the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects with some added tweaks of their own.
They have stripped out a lot of old and unused bits and unlike mplayer2, have encoding features.
One bonus to this is that its a single binary that is smaller than both mplayer and mencoder. You
might be more successful in compiling a static binary as well, which I know has been an issue for
MPlayer.

Probably one of the nicer things for UMS, is that they ripped out most or all of the internal (de-)muxers
and just pass most things through ffmpeg, which UMS also does for the mencoder engine.

Probably the worst thing for UMS is they changed a lot of the syntax, although they do provide a chart
showing some of the changes so it would probably be somewhat easy to incorporate.

Food for thought if nothing else. I'm not a programmer or I'd take a stab at it myself.

Nice im sure Subjunk will see this soon enough and the "Orange Gang" will too =)


Great post thanks!

There was discussion about it in past already so I suppose SubJunk knows this project well
Anyway it is unusable at this stage:

What does not work yet:

• Direct stream copy

Thanks for the post We could implement it but like ExSport said its quality would be limited because it can't stream copy. We already have engines like that - VLC and the AviSynth engines - but that's why we prefer MEncoder and FFmpeg over those ones.

Does that make sense? (even if it supported direct stream copy) I ask because mpv-player mostly relies on ffmpeg for almost everything, so using ffmpeg directly would make better sense to me. Also, may I ask why mencoder is needed or what ffmpeg can't do and mencoder can?

I was discussing the matter on #mpv-player (does UMS has its own IRC channel?) and they told me that only benefit when using mpv as encoder/player would be better reading of bluray/dvd file archives, but almost everything else important can be done by interfacing ffmpeg directly.

MEncoder has much better support for subtitles than FFmpeg; it supports all popular subtitle formats when they are embedded and it supports embedded fonts.