Status of the MPlayer on AC-branch and HEAD, x264 and amr support (as of 2006-05-04)

[Marek Guevara Braun]

Marek Guevara Braun wrote:

> I have tested cvs version of mplayer and libavcodec/libutils/libformats
> from ffmpeg cvs (both 2006-05-03) and with the versions we can build
> a (more or less) working x264/H264 capable mplayer. I will write more
> about stability of H264 decoder after some tests).

Quick tests showed that H264 encoded videos could be played quite well
- faster than the current (our) ffmpeg/HEAD based vlc (so we should
update our ffmpeg too :-).

Cheers,
Marek