VLC player: can someone recompile w/ mplayers h264 codec ?

[vhelp]

I'm going out of my mind here..

Q: Is it at all possible to change the h264 decoder in VLC player to the one that MPLAYER is using ?
A:

I ask because I'm pretty fed up with VLC's inability to play many of my x264 cli encodes. Its hit or miss in many of them. Say I'm making a test encode (to review different encoding quality aspects) and I view them through the VLC player. After some 2 seconds (its random in some encodes) The darn thing will usually pause afterwards until the rest of the video is finished playing. Or, I get various kinds of strange artifacts.

There is something not right in VLC. I can't put my finger on it, but I would theorize that its something to do with how the h264 codec or version there-of was compiled in vlc.

When I play them inside DGAVCindex timeline, they are flawless.

When I play them in MPLAYER, they are flawless.

Or, if someone is fluent in c/c++ compilers and can re-compile vlc with the *exact* version that MPLAYER is using, that would be prefect !! I'd do it, even if it were just for myself and purposes only, but I have no clue how to compile anything in c/c++ let alone with compile to use. I do this a lot with some of the delphi tools I come across: fudge what I need, and then recompile, purposes. Anyway. You could always just make an notation in the readme file of the reason for the re-compile: the above.

Thanks,
-vhelp 5019

[Midzuki]

Just out-of-curiousity, ¿why spend time with trying to make VLC work properly?


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[vhelp]

That's a good quesiton. Actually, the answer is prob the inverse of what I was going to ask in my first post, but I forgot the question and moved on..now I remember the last question I wanted to ask..

Q: Is there a better h264 player (alternative to vlc) so I can be happy, again
A:

thx,
-vhelp 5021

[Midzuki]

As you yourself just stated, MPlayer is doing what VLC does not want to do.
If you're just missing a GUI, use MPui --- not very great, but it does work in most cases.
(As for SMplayer, keep away from the devil!
What an incredibly stubborn and sluggish application! )


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[vhelp]

Sorry, I didn't think to mention it before, but Mplayer, although it does play the file perfectly, some of the file do play in slow motion. Not sure if I need to add a (ie frame rate 30 fps or 60 fps) param switch to it, but I did not find any info on just how to do it. Actaully, when I need to test it (since vlc acts up at times) I just drag the .264 file to the mplayer.exe icon on my destop..that usually works enough for me, except for when some strange files don't play full speed, as in 1280x720p @ 60pfs for instance.

yeah, I'll stay away from smplayer if you think its evil..i hate evil.

fwiw: I am using vlc v0.8.5

thanks to taking the time ease my ackes,
-vhelp 5022