Hello, It would be nice to have an option to disable video filters. Currently, video filters can be disabled by adding the option '-vf-clr' in the 'Extra Options to MPlayer' field in gnome-mplayer's preferences dialog, but having a check-box somewhere would be more user-friendly, in my opinion. The thing is that video filters increase CPU usage by about 10% in my experience, so some users may prefer them disabled.

What filters are you wanting to get rid of? Deinterlace video can already be turned off and that should turn off most of them, the only other filter is screenshot

It was the software equaliser. I noticed the option vf=eq2 was being added to ~/.mplayer/config every time gnome-mplayer ran, but now I checked again and it seems it's no longer the case. Hang on... I enabled the deinterlace video option and vf=eq2 shows up again, so it must be that! I didn't make the connection, they seemed unrelated.

I have a similar problem with filters too.. If I start a mkv with VDPAU output from Nautilus, it crashes because VDPAU doesn't support any filter (in my case, it's the "scale" filter that causes the problem).

If I start the movie from console with mplayer command, it runs perfectly.

I'm used to configure every single aspect of Mplayer from it's config file (~/.mplayer/config), and I've also added a profile [gnome-mplayer] for setting up every aspect of gnome-mplayer, but It continues to pass automatically some options to mplayer that I do not want to pass. Can you enable an option like "use exclusively the .mplayer/config setting"?

I hope you can understand what I'm trying to explain, sorry but my English is not so good ;)

Just disable deinterlacing with vdpau, it will remove the filters.

it doesn't work.. here is the log of gnome-mplayer --verbose (I've set vo=vdpau:deint=0 in .mplayer/config in gnome-mplayer profile)

did you uncheck the "Deinterlace" option in gnome-mplayer in Edit->Preferences on the mplayer tab? Also set PostProcessing on the Player tab to "No Postprocessing"

I've done both the suggestions, but the problem remains. It's a really shame, because GNOME-Mplayer is a great interface for Mplayer in a GTK environment, but I think it's a bit too "intrusive" when we talk about setting the options. If only there was an option for absolutely follow only the options configured in the .mplayer/config file it would be great.

please post "ps -eaf | grep mplayer" I think we are really close on this...

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http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screene.jpg here is a screenshot of the situation.. if needed i can post my .mplayer/config (it contains 2 profiles, [default] that is used perfectly from mplayer from console, and [gnome-mplayer] that for many options is used from gnome-mplayer.

I confirm that starting the same video from mplayer-console is done without problems, and that the 2 profiles have the same options, they differ only in the name.

please post "gnome-mplayer -v" output of when it fails... the screen shots don't help much because I can't see all the messages.

here it is.. log obtained with "gnome-mplayer videofilename.mkv --reallyverbose > log_last"

i think that the errors are caused by the loading of filters like "scale" or "screenshot"

Can you try vdpau without the :deint=0 option and see if you still have this problem. Cause I think that is why the filters are still being added.

with vdpau enabled, it is inifluent if I use :deint=0 or not. GNOME-Mplayer passes always some filters option to mplayer, and as VDPAU is incompatible with any filters (playing mkv files, mplayer loads automatically one of the following vc: vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, ) it simply doesn't start the video reproduction. It is not a configuration error, as the SAME options in the [default] profile doesn't make any issues with mplayer started from console.

I really would like a way to tell to gnome-mplayer "hey, use ONLY the options I've set in the config file"

Can you please post the log with only vdpau specified as the vo. I need to find the root of the problem and until I can find that, I can't add other features.

Also, please remove -vf-clr from the additional command line, as you will notice there are not filters on the command, except for the screenshot vf and this should be removed when you remove the :deint=0 option from vdpau. Also, I am working on a patch that will remove this even when you have the :deint=0.

Also are there any filters in the [gnome-mplayer] section of the mplayer config file?

ok, all the filters should be disabled now when you select vdpau as the vo in SVN

ok, i'm recompiling gnome-mplayer right now, so I'll let you know how's going now.

now the .mkv files are played fine. Thanks

i've only to solve a "small" problem with PA, but I think it's not fault of GNOME-Mplayer.

btw, keep on with the good work Kevin ;)