[drmadison]

Hey, just wanted to jump in and share I have MPlayer 1.4 mostly ported over. It's all built w/ MIPSPro and running... well not as well as 1.0rc1 did yet.
But it runs, compatibility is amazing, and perf is about as garbage as you'd expect from an unoptimized-for-the-platform modern media application on decade+ old hardware.

640x272 1500kbps mp4 files play great on my 550mhz R14k. Anything above that falls apart. 1920x1080 6000kbps mp4s are just laughable to watch (about 1-2 seconds per frame).

I'm working on porting over the old MPayer 1.0rc1 vo_sgi that we made all those years ago to get some of the more optimized hardware colorspace conversion routines in place, as well as the rewritten software conversion that was optimized by (I believe?) dexter1 back in the day to better interleave between the execution units on mips4 hardware. These won't get it all the way back to the perf of 1.0rc1, but it should be within a few percent, while offering MUCH better compatibility. Rather than 80% of my videos not playing, they just play REALLY SLOW.