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FFmpeg can be compiled with fontconfig support also but I don't believe the shipped binaries have been compiled with it. I'm unsure if that would help with this issue, however, as I have never had this problem with FFmpeg.

Not sure if you are aware of this project, http://mpv.io/, but they are a fairly new project that does a bit of melding of the MPlayer and mplayer2 projects with some added tweaks of their own. They have stripped out a lot of old and unused bits and unlike mplayer2, have encoding features. One bonus...

There are still issues. If you have trouble playing anything, try making sure the "Keep AC-3 tracks" option is disabled. That was one source of issues for me. Also, this does not work if you are linked against an x264 library compiled with 10bit output instead of the standard 8bit. Other t...

It's possible this is limited to me, but although the subs handling in ffmpeg has made great strides I still occasionally run into issues with font sizing being off in some of my anime mkv's. I really haven't spent any time trying to track down the root of the problem but I'm guessing the problem is...

DeFlanko wrote:Nice Vallimar!

Is this only for the Linux OS?

Well, the patches are not Linux specific, you can apply them and compile under Windows also and should work the same.

For anyone who has compiled their own recent versions of either FFMpeg or MPlayer knows, the AC3 audio is a problem when using MEncoder. The reason for this is that FFMpeg switched to a planar audio format awhile ago but MPlayer did not support it up until just over a month ago. I had been reverting...