PMP has switched to mpv player, which seems to handle large media files better than PHT. Stuttering on the same hardware disappears for example. Is it in the roadmap to use this player instead of the existing player in PHT?
@superdx said:
PMP has switched to mpv player, which seems to handle large media files better than PHT. Stuttering on the same hardware disappears for example. Is it in the roadmap to use this player instead of the existing player in PHT?
No, What would be the point, OpenPHT would become Plex Media Player, kind of pointless really.
Regards
Well, it plays better on the same hardware?
There are large files like 10-40GB raw video that mpv just eats up. PHT struggles with it, stuttering like crazy.
It’s not like PMP has a monopoly on mpv. mpv is an open source project all by itself. Works great on every platform.
That may be for your installation on your particular hardware, other users have no problems. Suggest you look at your preferences in OpenPHT, or use PMP.
Regards
Interestingly enough one of the decisions from the Plex team was that PHT rendering was getting long in the tooth, i.e. deprecated. Would you say that OpenPHT development will leave the rendering as-is for the roadmap? There aren’t many open source rendering engines that are actively being developed and PHT will choke on those eventually for Direct Play. Unless transcoding is the answer, but then OpenPHT would just be a UI skin.
Yes, because they were still using Frodo as a base, OpenPHT is already moving to Isengard/Jarvis, a large amount of code has already been replaced and will continue to be replaced with each release.
Are you saying that Kodi is not being actively developed? Thousands of people would disagree with you, specifically the Kodi team!
Regards
As @NedtheNerd have mentioned OpenPHT will not move to use the mpv player, however next release will bump ffmpeg to 2.8.6 from the current 0.10.16 version (ffmpeg is the library used in both mpv and OpenPHT that handles media decoding).
You can expect OpenPHT to play most if not all media that mpv handles with the ffmpeg bump in next release.
Thanks Kwiboo, wasn’t looking for an argument. Ned seems pretty feisty so appreciate your kind response.
Hate to bump this up, but already I found some content that will not play on OpenPHT, “failed to open file” is the error message.
Original PHT plays it but has issues with seeking. PMP plays perfectly. On desktop, mpv & VLC play perfectly as well on OSX.
I can share the media file but would rather not post content on the forum. Can I PM the link?
@superdx said:
Hate to bump this up, but already I found some content that will not play on OpenPHT, “failed to open file” is the error message.Original PHT plays it but has issues with seeking. PMP plays perfectly. On desktop, mpv & VLC play perfectly as well on OSX.
I can share the media file but would rather not post content on the forum. Can I PM the link?
Put the debug log on the github.
@superdx said:
Hate to bump this up, but already I found some content that will not play on OpenPHT, “failed to open file” is the error message.Original PHT plays it but has issues with seeking. PMP plays perfectly. On desktop, mpv & VLC play perfectly as well on OSX.
I can share the media file but would rather not post content on the forum. Can I PM the link?
The reason to use OpenPHT is that its nothing like PMP.
Its unfortunate that some newer codecs arent working right now, but its video handling (refresh rate switching, deinterlacing 1080 mpeg2 content ) is much more stable than PMP last time I tried.
as also wondering if the way forward for PHT/OpenPHT is just to embrace KODI with PleXBMC (or what is it called these days) and make a skin looking exactly like PHT. No need to port anything that way.
