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IPED Digital Forensic Tool. It is an open source software that can be used to process and analyze digital evidence, often seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in a corporate investigation by private examiners.
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Update MPlayer (for Windows) #2056

Closed wladimirleite closed 5 months ago

wladimirleite commented 5 months ago

We are using a relatively old version of MPlayer (from 2018) for Windows. Although changes are minimal, I saw some improvements in VideoThumbTask using a newer version (e.g. some videos that older version were unable to skip frames, now are handled fine). I will run a larger test to check performance and generated thumbs quality, and see if it is safe to update.

wladimirleite commented 5 months ago

Unfortunately the most recent version available, from December/2022 (no update in the last year!), doesn't output the "rotation" information. That affects a lot of videos, making the "quality" of generated thumbs worse. As performance is basically the same as the previous version and the "quality" benefit is limited to a small subset of the videos I tested, it is not worth updating now.

I will check again in the future, and maybe try to compile from the source, but for now I will close this.