On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:51, David S. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:39:19 +0200
> It's a 32-bit library, put it under /usr/lib not > /usr/lib64. Right, I put the .so in the wrong place, without noticing it cause I had overwritten the 64 bit version instead of deleting it and copying the new lib in the right place. :). The problem, however, was related to an error of mine, I did forget to copy the .a lib with the shared object file. Mplayer is now compiled and operational. I'm quite impressed with the result: using SDL and mlib, an MPEG4 streams a lot better than what it did with the previous compile. Full screen output is still quite utopistic, but using a bit of frame dropping and a smaller windows, at least the movie it's viewable, and most important (since I have to do previews) is that audio is *finally* in sync with video. I'll work on some alternative ways to offload the U10, but at least I see that with the last X11 upgrade in unstable, X11 native output is also faster, even outside of mplayer. I'll try, at a later time, to install a test system on an external Sun Multipack, to see if there is a real offload of the CPU. The "dirty" kernel messages while playing video are still there, though. Here's a litte pico-howto for lurkers that would like to try reproducing my experiment: - Get mplayer at www.mplayerhq.hu (latest stable is 0.91, while 1.0rc1 is expected to be released in a few days) - Grab medialib binaries (shared object, archive lib, and headers) at: http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlib.html (warning: you have to agree to sun license...) - Untar, unzip & put the libs in the appropriate places (the right library and archive lib are under the "sparcv8plus+vis" trees on the extracted archives) - Copy header files to /usr/include (or whatever) - Compile mplayer # sparc32 ./configure --with-mlibdir=/usr/lib (or the dir you extracted libmlib.so) # sparc32 make # make install (I used checkinstall, to have a .deb package at hand) - Enjoy :) Any optimization and tweaking support is greatly appreciated. See you soon, Antonello. -- Antonello Iunco <etn at libero dot it> Cruising the Web on a (Modified) Debian-Powered Sun Ultra10