New Release

[u8sand]

Some code refactoring and implemented the new mpv renderer API; this seems to fix wayland support, works better on linux mint mate, and presumably may also fix other things.

Hopefully I can get this compiled for Windows to make a release in the coming weeks. If anyone is interested in helping me test it let me know.

Fixes:

• Fixes When video is open, play button restarts the video #330
• Fixes scroll bar not working, new Qt5 version cause problem #327
• Fixes Wayland mpv overlay in second window bug #313
• Fixes New release? #241
• Fixes What about wayland support? #188
• Fixes A hard to summarize issue, also holding tab causes the player to crash #181
• Fixes Subtitles error. #262
• Fixes .ass subtitles crash the player during the opening of an anime #325

Possibly fixes:

• References Flickering on Windows 10 #288
• References Playing .wmv files in iffy. They always crash the player badly #258
• References full screen crashes #255
• References Flash Video (.flv) crashing player #235
• References a .MOV converted to .MP4 will play with VLC, but not Baka-MPlayer #207
• References Segfaults on Debian Jessie #201

If I can release it for windows and multiple distros it would likely address

• References When video is open, play button restarts the video #330
• References scroll bar not working, new Qt5 version cause problem #327
• References Install by git clone, or i should try some more simple disk space saving way? #318
• References unable to update #315
• References Is there a ppa for Ubuntu 16.04? #206
• References Segfaults on Debian Jessie #201
• References Upload to Debian #196

TODO:

• compilation
  • windows
  • linux mint
  • archlinux
  • ubuntu
  • ..?
• testing
  • windows
  • linux mint
  • archlinux
  • ubuntu
  • ..?
• "update" code use github instead of bakamplayer.u8sand.net

[u8sand]

Whoever is interested should please test them and let me know..

linux mint: baka-mplayer_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb.zip

windows 10 64bit: baka-mplayer-win64.7z.zip
(please note, I used 7z followed by zip so it would be small enough to meet github's upload constraint of 25MB)

[Zeirison]

Whoever is interested should please test them and let me know..

linux mint: baka-mplayer_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb.zip

windows 10 64bit: baka-mplayer-win64.7z.zip (please note, I used 7z followed by zip so it would be small enough to meet github's upload constraint of 25MB)

I can try to build and test on a Mac M1, does that make sense?

[u8sand]

@Zeirison that'd be awesome; unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac to help with that directly but can try to help if you run into any issue you're unable to address..
My guess is you'd need to disable dim dialog like on Wayland. As long as mpv and qt are running on Mac it should be achievable.

[Zeirison]

Surprisingly, the player built and ran natively on arm64 without any problems at all, then I'll start testing it :)

To build and run, these commands are enough:

brew install youtube-dl
brew install mpv
git clone -b release https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer.git
cd Baka-MPlayer
brew install qt@5
./configure CONFIG+=install_translations
make
open build

[u8sand]

@Zeirison thanks! that's pretty neat I didn't know the current one already works for Mac, in the past I think it built but then would segfault immediately, and that was on x86. Seems qt has likely hammered out the issues since then.

If possible please also see if the rc branch works (git checkout rc and rebuild) and if there is a noticable performance hit as reported by someone else. Maybe I just make which rendering api to use an option..

[Zeirison]

@Zeirison thanks! that's pretty neat I didn't know the current one already works for Mac, in the past I think it built but then would segfault immediately, and that was on x86. Seems qt has likely hammered out the issues since then.

If possible please also see if the rc branch works (git checkout rc and rebuild) and if there is a noticable performance hit as reported by someone else. Maybe I just make which rendering api to use an option..

Video playback in the master branch doesn’t work, so I used the rc branch. There are performance issues, they mostly appear when the video is playing, the window becomes very unresponsive and various artifacts appear. There are also several critical and minor bugs that make it quite difficult to use the app (I'll create separate issues for them and help with debugging and testing).

[JXWw3wLD9LArcR7c]

Whoever is interested should please test them and let me know..

linux mint: baka-mplayer_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb.zip

windows 10 64bit: baka-mplayer-win64.7z.zip (please note, I used 7z followed by zip so it would be small enough to meet github's upload constraint of 25MB)

I can confirm the subtitles issue #262 #325 should be fixed with this version on Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit. I'll try to binge some anime to see if I can find any issues that were not present before.

[JXWw3wLD9LArcR7c]

There's this bug on version 2.0.4 that's also fixed in this version.
It probably has something to do with graphics cards and using two screens. Whenever you exit fullscreen, the video will be cropped until you press play, when you press play the video will readjust itself to the windows size.
Another bug is the play bar appearing twice on fullscreen sometimes. That's also fixed. I was going to take a picture, but I had difficulty replicating it. Pretty sure a friend of mine also has this issue.

The screen flickering issue #288 is also fixed, but I am not sure since the issue report is vague. I only noticed the issue when I moved my mouse on fullscreen, trying to make the bars and boxes appear.
New version: https://streamable.com/m6aszx
Can't show the video of how this issue looks since OBS is having issues properly capturing it (OBS shows a black screen, and takes a while to update)

[danilw]

I saw mention of my #313 in this release, but I do not see how it fix my issue with Wayland.

I rebuild to test - in Wayland Baka-MPlayer play in 2 window, self and mpv.
In file src/mpvhandler.cpp I have not seen any changes as I mention in my issue:

Fix - file src/mpvhandler.cpp add to line 31:

mpv_set_option_string(mpv, "gpu-context", "x11egl");   // xWayland Sway fix

(x11egl or x11, because mpv use it)
it seems for now, tested Apr 2023, it work only with x11egl

[JerryleThree]

Recently installed, video plays in a pop up window. Matched the settings with an older version of Baka MPlayer and got the same thing, also program closes after finishing one video in the playlist.

[danilw]

@JerryleThree

see #313