MPlayer CE is an active effort to maintain a native port of MPlayer for Nintendo's GameCube and Wii proprietary platforms, it uses internal libmenu as frontend with some usability enhancements. Originally based on the MPlayer TT.
Added hardware support for all planar YUV formats.
Added new vertical synchronization method.
Added support for pan-and-scan.
Improved performance.
Other minor fixes and changes.
r574 - April 22, 2010
Upstream sync. [MPlayer r31057 / FFmpeg r22945]
Improved HD media support.
Improved performance.
r572 - March 27, 2010
Upstream sync. [MPlayer r30972 / FFmpeg r22705]
Improved performance.
r567 - February 21, 2010
Improved aspect scaling.
r565 - February 10, 2010
r564 - February 7, 2010
Added enhanced definition EFB hack.
Cracked DVD keys are now cached.
r563 - February 1, 2010
Added hardware volume control.
r555 - January 25, 2010
Rewrote input handling.
r551 - January 21, 2010
Added USB keyboard support.
Corrected YUV coefficients.
Proper adjustment for overscan.
0.76 - November 26, 2009
Fixes for 4.2 update
Stability fixes (hopefully freezing is gone forever now)
Network (LAN and WAN) speeds increased
Added directory play feature
YouTube section entirely revamped
Added Nintendo Channel content (quality may not yet be optimal) (thanks to yellowstar6 for his work on ninchdl-listext)
[blip.tv was planned but couldn't make it on time]
Many, many more bugs fixed
0.75 - August 19, 2009
FTP support added (thanks to hax)
NTFS support added for USB and SD (thanks to Shareese)
SMB speed improved
Hopefully finally eradicated the freezing bug
Fixed noise bug when loading another stream
0.72 - August 3, 2009
Fix playlist bug
More SMB servers detected (thanks to hax)
SMB now supports user-level share security (thanks to hax)
SMB now supports plain text passwords (thanks to hax)
0.71 - August 2, 2009
Autoload implemented. If the next file has a very similar name (using a Levenshtein distance of 2) it will be autoloaded.
Examples:
film.part1.avi > film.part2.avi (1 change)
episode.s01e09.avi > episode.s01e10.avi works (2 changes)
Improved memory management: fixes MPlayer hanging if out of memory.
OSD level 3 now shows mem1 and mem2 info.
Driver improved with autodetection error: on error the device is reinitied and read is retried.
Restore Points fixed. Now quit or power off saves restore point and can resume properly. Please delete your previous restore_point file in case it is corrupted, and check that your SD card isn't locked.
Improved SMB connections: now SMB will always reconnect.
Improved stream initialisation.
Fixed green lines at the top of loading screen.
Further improved video compatibility
Added ability to load an external driver from SD for USB 2.0 testing. More details (and drivers) will be added to the Google Code page at a later date. Thanks to Hermes for the patch.
Finally fixed the problem with network and USB 2.0 conflicts (due to the driver using a bad device).
Font loading improved.
Improved MPlayer support when a file unexpectedly disappears and reappears.
Use small cache if opening an internet stream (audio and video).
Optimized memory access (thanks to a suggestion from Shagkur); cache thread is now more stable.
A8 patch added for DVD playback in cIOS202 to avoid problems with old modchips.
Improved Libfat:
fix for special characters
prevent possible corruption on sd
can now mount any FAT partition, whether primary or active
real FAT32 limit so larger files can be played
Improved USB hotplug and DVD detection
ECHI module modified for greater compatibility with USB devices.
Improved video compatibility.
New buffering system implemented. If the cache drops below 3% MPlayer will pause and re-buffer to prevent possible hangs with bad connections. Cache is shown on OSD level 3.
Shoutcast TV is complete with caching, thanks to Extrems. Please see menu.conf.
If new cIOS is used then DVDx is not required for DVD access.
New cIOS Installer:
Installs IOS202 using base IOS60 automatically for greater WiFi support.
Ability to select the IOS to use so you can select an IOS with the fakesign bug.
0.62 - June 3, 2009
USB LAN Adaptor support fixed (again). Thanks to CountZ3ro for testing. Please note that you will need to install the USB 2.0 cIOS.
cIOS improved to stop conflicts with other homebrew. Please note that now only port0 has usb2 support. All other USB devices (including the USB LAN adaptor) must go in port1. See here for details: http://mplayer-ce.googlecode.com/files/usb.jpg
Horizontal stretch parameter added (see mplayer.conf)
YouTube options added to menu.conf (thanks to Extrems)
Many small bug fixes
0.61 - June 3, 2009
New screen size variables actually work now.
Better usb device detection.
Using free Liberation font instead of Arial.
Subtitle wraparound bug fixed.
Spanish version released.
0.6 - May 23, 2009
No more maximum cache limit
Introduced new variables into mplayer.conf to adjust screen size and position, please see mplayer.conf for details (component-fix is now deprecated)
idx/sub subtitle support (please note that these can take up to 30 seconds to load so please be patient)
Multiple folder locations added, it is now possible to have the files in
sd:/apps/mplayer_ce
sd:/mplayer
usb:/apps/mplayer_ce
usb:/mplayer
Added resume points - video will resume at last stopped point. To clear, delete resume_points file in your mplayer_ce folder. To seek to the beginning of the video hold 2 and press the minus button.
Added support for Hermes' cIOS. This has greater USB compatibility and enables USB LAN connector support. Please see wiki page for details
Added Fribidi library support for right-to-left languages
Made cache fill visible on screen
Many small bug fixes
Updated to latest MPlayer svn
0.5 - April 22, 2009
SMB now much more robust - thanks to DennisLKJ for smb.c fix
libfat cache improved for speed and stability
USB ethernet now fixed with USB 1.1; USB 2.0 fix requires an updated cIOS
Added ability to manipulate picture using the nunchuk
Updated to latest MPlayer revision
Now using subfont.ttf instead of font folder - use mplayer.conf to change font size
Merged widescreen and 4:3 pack - now MPlayer will use the appropriate loop.avi automatically
Improved modchip compatibility for DVD
0.4 - March 28, 2009
USB 2.0 support (see docs for info)
TTF font support (see docs for info)
Fixed bug in radio streaming.
DVD-Video bugs fixed (DVDs should play much more smoothly now)
Fixes in Libdi to detect chipped Wii
Codec fixes
Updated to latest MPlayer revision
Many small fixes
0.3a - March 2, 2009
Fixed a little bug in keepalive issue that hangs the Wii
0.3 - February 27, 2009
Fixed code to play videos with incompatible size; we now support many video formats and unorthodox resolutions
Fixed keepalive issue in samba (thanks to Ludovic Orban)
New loop.avi and widescreen version (thanks to Blue_K)
0.21e - February 24, 2009
Fixed apostrophies in filenames
Improved DVD and USB mounting devices
Fixed radio
Improved samba reconnection
Debugging help for SMB Shares at bootup, debug_network=yes (Review mplayer.conf)
0.21d - February 22, 2009
Updated menu.conf to allow selecting playlist
Fix rodries' loop patch
0.21c - February 21, 2009
Updated menu.conf to allow selecting subtitles
0.21b - February 21, 2009
Fixed hang when you access to dvdnav
New mplayer.conf option: component_fix=yes to fix side bars on some problematic TVs (Now fixed) Review your configs.
Stop Looping Video/Audio file.
0.21 - February 20, 2009
Reduced font size
New Readme
New mplayer.conf option: component_fix=yes to fix side bars on some problematic TVs
Small fix in cache2.c
0.2 - February 17, 2009
SD/USB Mount bugs fixed
DVD Mount/Stop/Motor/Pause problems fixed, now mounts, only when you select DVD
Network Initialising on startup changed, now connects "hidden" in background.
Added 5 SMB Shares, review smb.conf
Boot-up speed increased
Added files filter to only show audio/video files
Same directory kept open when you open/close the menu
Menu closes on file load
0.1 - February 14, 2009
SMB fixes
DVD cache bug fixed
Small USB fixes
Modified Libogc & Libfat
2.35:1 videos now scale correctly
Further Information
For information on compiling, editing the configuration files and submitting your custom theme, please visit the wiki.
How to report a bug/issue
Please only report "new" issues, not duplicates. Use search before submitting.
User submitted customizations
Feel free to submit links to your own customizations on the wiki.
