2016-08-23, 17:39
(2016-08-23, 16:31)popcornmix Wrote: The default is omxplayer enabled on Pi1 and disabled on Pi2/Pi3 (with MMAL enabled).
Pi1 really needs omxplayer for the lower cpu usage when playing higher bitrate 1080p video.
Pi2/Pi3 have enough cpu for mmal in the vast majority of cases.
MMAL uses VideoPlayer and so gets any features by default (e.g. fast/slow playback was added recently).
omxplayer is unlikely to get new features.
Cheers as ever popcornmix.
If mmal is now the recommended option I'd be particularly interested in your views on my qu.4 above around passthrough audio. Is that something that a debug log would shed light on - i.e. why for MMAL is it returning RAW and 8 bit, rather than accurate speaker set up and 32 bit? Just want to check that it passing through the audio correctly. I'll post log asap if you think it would reveal anything.
