On 20 April 2010 02:50, Mike McCarty <mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I've read through the BLFS sections related to video, but am still > uncertain how to proceed toward the goal of playing MP4 (so called) > format files.
In addition to what has already been suggested - These days, I prefer totem (using gstreamer), but the important infrastructure probably includes: faad (audio), x264 (key to a lot of this, and has to be appropriate to the version of ... ffmpeg, For totem I need _all_ the gstreamer plugin packages (good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg). The versions I'm using at the moment (somewhat old, but they build and work together on LFS-6.6) are - faad2-2.7 x264-snapshot-20090327-2245 ffmpeg-0.5 and, fwiw, gstreamer-0.10.25 gst-plugins-base-0.10.25 gst-plugins-good-0.10.16 gst-plugins-bad-0.10.14 gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.12 gst-ffmpeg-0.10.8 with gnome-2.28 (mostly) versions of totem and its deps. But it's still very much "suck it and see" territory - when youtube was usable with gnash (8 or 9 months ago), I went through a lot of various other packages but I never managed to get a 100% success rate for playing videos. Hopefully, it isn't "Abandon hope all ye who enter!" territory. I'm using quite different configure switches from what is in the BLFS book, ask about specifics if you wish. I intend to publish my current buildscripts _soon_, but there is another build to go through (some over-engineering in my infrastructure first time), and some more testing to confirm things are working. NB - I _don't_ use mplayer - tried it once, didn't like it. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
