Archive:MPlayer
MPlayer intruduction
The main video-player in XBMC is a port of MPlayer which is a command-line based video-player for Linux and Windows.
Currently Supported Codecs
See MPlayer 1.0pre6 for now
Additional Audio Codecs
See MPlayer 1.0pre6 for now
Additional Video Codecs
See MPlayer 1.0pre6 for now
Known Issues or Limitations
To come...
Known Bugs
The official list/tracker of known bugs can be found at sourceforge.net
Unimplemented Features/Codecs
This is a list of (some of) the features/functions/codecs that works fine in MPlayer for Linux/Windows but are as of yet unsupported in XBMC:
- RTSP/RTP streaming support via the via LIVE555 library (formaly known as the LIVE.COM library).
- DVR-MS (Microsoft Windows Media Center container) support, this was only partialy supported in the MPlayer 1.0pre6 demuxer/spliter. You have to wait until MPlayer 1.0pre8+ gets ported to XBMC.
- RealNetworks RealVideo 10 (RV10) audio/video, this was only partialy supported in the MPlayer 1.0pre6 demuxer/spliter. You have to wait until MPlayer 1.0pre8+ gets ported to XBMC.
- AACplus / HE AAC+ v1 (AAC+SBR) and v2 (AAC+SBR+PS) audio codec. You have to wait until MPlayer 1.0pre8+ gets ported to XBMC.
Please note that none of the features listed above are planned yet (so if you can program C/C++, please feel free to code and submit a patch.
Developers notes on MPlayer in XBMC
The main video-player in XBMC is a MinGW/MSYS-port of MPlayer which is a command-line based video-player for Linux (and Windows via MinGW/MSYS). It is compiled as one DLL (Dynamic Link Library) file and loaded as needed by XBMC.