Improve video quality with MPlayer

axelectrik · 2013-06-06 05:00:25

This is my current mplayer conf:

# Write your default config options here!
#General setup

ao="alsa"	#audio out
#mixer-channel="Master"
mixer-channel="Wallpaper"
srate=48000

#really-quiet="1" #Very very little console output

vo="x11"	#video out
zoom="1" #Allow sofware scaling if I use x11 for vo
aid="1"	#audio channel
sid="0"	#subtitle set

#Display

double="yes"	#double buffering(recommended for subtitles)
monitoraspect="4:3"	#I'm on a widescreen laptop so keeps 4:3 content from stretching
framedrop="1"	# For slow machines
hardframedrop="0" #Make sure hard frame drop is off but can turn on easily now

#subtitle code
#Truetype fonts rock! (sudo apt-get msttcorefonts)
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/impact.ttf

ffactor="10" #black outline
sub-bg-alpha="0" #background color ala closed captions
sub-bg-color="0" #black to white
subfont-text-scale="3"	#truetype font scaling
subfont-blur="1" #Slight blur
embeddedfonts=true 
ass=true

#This sets the postprocessing into overdrive using all possible spare cpu cycles to make the movie look better
autoq=100
vf=pp=de,hqdn3d


subpos="90"	#By default subtitles are too low
subalign="2"

#always keep mplayer on top
ontop="0"

#turns off xscreen saver...maybe
stop-xscreensaver="yes"

#Some extra stuff I am currently not using....
#Fix A/V sync problems on files with bad MP3 VBR audio
#mc="1"
#autosync="10"
#delay="0.5"

I downloaded it from some post but I was wondering if there are better filters or more quality options, no matter the resources it could use.

I have some videos looking pale, I want to know if there is any filter to improve the colors, make them more bright. I currently use mplayer2 fork

Thank you

WonderWoofy · 2013-06-06 05:19:20

I have never actually tried to configure mplayer beyond changing the video out (-vo). You can see a list of available options with "mplayer -vo help". Try them.

Also, recently I discovered mpv, which is a fork of mplayer2. It is pretty bad-ass. I use the mpv-git package from the AUR. There are 3 there, but the other two are statically linked, so I think that mpv-git is probably the only real reasonable option.

One more thing. It is typically never a good idea to simply copy and paste a config blindly from the internets. The config you found is optimized for someones system, but it is apparently not yours.

axelectrik · 2013-06-06 05:34:12

I think I'll try that fork, but using that configuration has work good for me for a long time.
THe videos look plae because they're old not because of the configuration, I just wanted to know if there was a way to improve them with some filter

PReP · 2013-06-10 16:41:20

Well, i get great quality with:

vo=gl:yuv=3:lscale=5:cscale=5
ao=alsa

And i am quite picky wth quality,
i tried your config but i found the image too smothened out, but that is for me atleast.

Besides that, colour-settings can be a good thing, either grfx-card ones (like desktop colour settings on nvidia, like saturation (only a bit) and tweak/decrease brightness, increase contrast and fiddle with gamma - but these things can be in the eye of the beholder and differ on different hardware of course.

As reference i use these recorded Game Of Thrones ~11 GB each, 1080p episodes.

Let me know how the setting works for you (if you have a GL capable card/driver)

Last edited by PReP (2013-06-10 16:42:22)

Arch Linux

#1 2013-06-06 05:00:25

Improve video quality with MPlayer

#2 2013-06-06 05:19:20

Re: Improve video quality with MPlayer

#3 2013-06-06 05:34:12

Re: Improve video quality with MPlayer

#4 2013-06-10 16:41:20

Re: Improve video quality with MPlayer

Board footer