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Ever since experiencing it over on Ubuntu, MPlayer's been my media player of choice as it doesn't necessarily use a pesky GUI and generally doesn't require too many resources even in a Windows port, which is quite good as my PC isn't all that fresh. (at present, playin' an average MP3, MPlayer uses up 0.4 % of my CPU (an AMD Duron 1.6 GHz ) and 7 MB in RAM (out of 1024 MB DDR1 RAM))
The only exception to that is for MIDIs, obviously, since MPlayer doesn't support those (I use Timidity++ for that, instead, but, anyway, getting off-topic)
Only two nitpicks came up for me with MPlayer as of the release of a certain 496-MP3-files-strong archive not too long ago
One being that, at the end of an MP3, the last ~1 Second or so is cut off as it skips over to the next track. This only happens if output is put through Direct Sound. If I set MPlayer to put it straight through the Win32-Audio-Mapper, it instead plays that extra second -- but playing music this way proves to a problem of it's own, as the music gets quite laggy if I so much as scroll through a large page in Firefox, for example.
Is there any sort of known fix for this sorta thing?
Additionally, I am curious if there's any sort of equivalent to the infamous "in_vgmstream" Plugin to MPlayer, or something comparable. It sounds like something I might have a use for in the future and I'd rather not have to get a whole additional player just for those advantages.
Google said "Nope" on both, but then, it's not all-knowing, so, I thought I'd try my luck with the tech-wizards over here : D
The only exception to that is for MIDIs, obviously, since MPlayer doesn't support those (I use Timidity++ for that, instead, but, anyway, getting off-topic)
Only two nitpicks came up for me with MPlayer as of the release of a certain 496-MP3-files-strong archive not too long ago
One being that, at the end of an MP3, the last ~1 Second or so is cut off as it skips over to the next track. This only happens if output is put through Direct Sound. If I set MPlayer to put it straight through the Win32-Audio-Mapper, it instead plays that extra second -- but playing music this way proves to a problem of it's own, as the music gets quite laggy if I so much as scroll through a large page in Firefox, for example.
Is there any sort of known fix for this sorta thing?
Additionally, I am curious if there's any sort of equivalent to the infamous "in_vgmstream" Plugin to MPlayer, or something comparable. It sounds like something I might have a use for in the future and I'd rather not have to get a whole additional player just for those advantages.
Google said "Nope" on both, but then, it's not all-knowing, so, I thought I'd try my luck with the tech-wizards over here : D
