Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
You didn't actually need to upgrade gcc. If you check the configure options, you'll find the option to --disable-gcc-checking. Mandrake was very nice to patch their built version of gcc for us. They've been doing this since 8.0. The configure script doesn't check for problems with it, it just checks the version number. I've been compiling MPlayer for some time, and each time I've used --disable-gcc-checking and I've had no problems, bug related that is, with it since. With the new versions, make sure you copy the MPlayer-0.90pre5/etc/codec.conf and MPlayer-0.90pre5/etc/input.conf to ~/.mplayer. There have been some changes made to it regularly. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 | Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to | upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). | `--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Saturday 08 June 2002 13:16, you wrote: As great it is that people try make RPM's of Mplayer for public use, but I still have to see 1 really successful build that works on all systems. In my opinion there is none.. Mplayer builds to YOUR system.. depending on what software / hardware you have. It's not as simple as a simple binary, but a carefully built package designed for performance. You see, they could build DeCss supprt in, but what point does that have if a user doesn't even have a DVD player? Go tho the Mplayer site, download the tarball (new release today) and read the docs, and there should be no problems. Yes it does take time at first, I give you that, but at least then you have a working MPlayer ;-) Greetings Ralph OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 13:16, you wrote: As great it is that people try make RPM's of Mplayer for public use, but I still have to see 1 really successful build that works on all systems. In my opinion there is none.. Mplayer builds to YOUR system.. depending on what software / hardware you have. It's not as simple as a simple binary, but a carefully built package designed for performance. You see, they could build DeCss supprt in, but what point does that have if a user doesn't even have a DVD player? Go tho the Mplayer site, download the tarball (new release today) and read the docs, and there should be no problems. Yes it does take time at first, I give you that, but at least then you have a working MPlayer ;-) Greetings Ralph OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. Well, saying that there are no good rpm versions may or may not be true, however definitely the best thing to do would be to compile it yourself. You see, if I gave you my RPM, you would need: [axllent@axljab axllent]$ ldd /usr/bin/mplayer libasound.so.1 = /usr/lib/libasound.so.1 (0x40023000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4003d000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4004) libvorbis.so.0 = /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0x40057000) libogg.so.0 = /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0x40078000) libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4007d000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40093000) libgtk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x400a2000) libgdk-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x401e5000) libgmodule-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x4021f000) libglib-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40222000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40248000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4025) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4025f000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40326000) libpng.so.3 = /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x40349000) libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4037) libungif.so.4 = /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 (0x40391000) libGL.so.1 = /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x40399000) libSDL-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x403e) libartsc.so.0 = /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0 (0x4045a000) libesd.so.0 = /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0x40462000) libaudiofile.so.0 = /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0x40469000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4048d000) libGLcore.so.1 = /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x405c9000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) ... just be to able to run, as it's built to suite my system... and probrably would conflict with yours. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. I know this problem, but on the other hand, at least it is documented fully ;-) From my experience there are always other features that one does not come accross until needed, other formats and so on. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. If all goes well you need just two packages.. the Win32 files and the latest Mplayer. Unpack the win32 files into /usr/lib/win32, and then unpack, compile and install Mplayer. To compile Mplayer to use DVD encryption, you may first need to symlink /dev/dvd to your cdrom (actually DVD, but..). This way while compiling MPlayer it'll detect /dev/dvd and compile it in. To be able to use the GUI you will have to add the --enable-gui flag to the compile part, as well as any other added options that are not normally detected in the ./configure. To be able to compile in the GUI you will need libgtk+1.2-devel, XFree86-devel, and probably a couple more (mplayer ./configure should warn you if you are missing something) I suggest to install those 2 devel files, and configure mplayer with: ./configure --enable-gui and see what it turns up with. At the end of compiling it will give you a list of to be supported formats and options. Reading through the output of the above command will tell you exactly what it's doing, and if it found anything or not. To see if it's supporting DVD playback, look for the line: Checking for DVD support (libmpdvdkit) ... yes Checking for GUI ... yes If you have these two, then you seem to be
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK I'm about to make my first attemp, a couple of questions though, I've got around to unpacking the tar ball and found the Readme which is for once quite comprehensible , and in there it mentions , Step1 : Install FFmpeg libavcodec, I take it libavcodec is already there inside MPlayer-0.90pre5, looks like it to me? yes, it is. any official release of MPlayer includes libavcodec. those instructions only apply if you are downloading a CVS snapshot. Step5: unpack and stuff screen display fonts /usr/local/share/mplayer/font, I have file: ISO-8859-1 and 2, I don't need to name them ?, just use them ans they come ? only needed if you use subtitle files with your movies.. i never used this feature so far. but i suppose you don't need to change the names. Step6: Install gui skin, Any good skins to recommend ? two would be enough for me, there are loads to choose from. and stuff in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin/default/(skin name) woops, wait. sking go into /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/(skinname) the 'default' subfolder is used by the 'default' skin only. well, i use default, proton, and plastic. but remember there's no accounting for taste. :o) ( and this means i have: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/ /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/proton/ /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/plastic/ directories. ) then alter mplayer.conf (doesn't say where this will be ?) , skin=(skin name) John -- /home/(your user)/.mplayer/mplayer.conf or, if you prefer, /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf probably the file won't be there at first, since the install doesn't create it. just make a textfile and put gui=yes skin=(skinname) in it. you may also find you would like to add other parammeters as well, later. Damian John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Saturday 08 June 2002 13:16, you wrote: As great it is that people try make RPM's of Mplayer for public use, but I still have to see 1 really successful build that works on all systems. In my opinion there is none.. Mplayer builds to YOUR system.. depending on what software / hardware you have. It's not as simple as a simple binary, but a carefully built package designed for performance. You see, they could build DeCss supprt in, but what point does that have if a user doesn't even have a DVD player? Go tho the Mplayer site, download the tarball (new release today) and read the docs, and there should be no problems. Yes it does take time at first, I give you that, but at least then you have a working MPlayer ;-) Greetings Ralph OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. I've just spent 2 hours reading all the bumf on Mplayer website, and I must say there is so much of it it is hard to take it all in in one hit. It seems to me leaving aside esotyeric things like skins, there is only the one MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz file to compile and install. Does this actually mean it's all there, you know, encription, conversion, etc etc, the bits that really do matter and make the programme all it is,because it seems a small download for a tar file and for there to be everything that you might conceiveably want. As I say I'm not particularly interested in sky blue pink graphics but I do want all the really important encription conversion stuff,(eg. DVD to DivX) and preferably in a gui guise. John download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). - Original Message - From: Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package named win32 codecs unpack it and copy all of it's contents to /usr/lib/win32 unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: ./configure --enable-gui make make install once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin ( note the capital S on Skin ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. (i.e. if you downloaded default skin, copy it to /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise mplayer will report it didn't find any. chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer doesn't need. don't worry. once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( vo ), since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. ( mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi ) you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) ( mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf ) and ( mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can then rename to *.asf ) and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters in the commandline, so it requires some reading... HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:30:41 -0400 Barry Michels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4). no problem. glad it worked. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
OK so there are no good rpm versions, so I have to compile from tar balls. Have you tried PLF's packages? http://plf.zarb.org/rpm/ They work fine for me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language -- The Microsoft Timeline http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/timeline.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mplayer message query
At the moment I have an rpm version of MPlayer nearly working, for DeCss use. This is the messages on startup after selecting files: | DEMUXER:Too many (4096in826973 | | bytes)video packets in the buffer | (screen warning ) Picture is blocked or squared , and what does Demuxer mean anyway. MPlayers is invoked in terminal with , ]#gmplayer dialogues say :- @@@ libmpeg2 returned from sig11... (bad file?) @@@ Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read file DOCS/cd-dvd.html @@@ libmpeg2 returned from sig11... (bad file?) @@@ 87% 14% 1.0% 40 0 0% Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read file DOCS/cd-dvd.html A: 16.0 V: 12.4 A-V: 3.604 ct: 5.176 1580/1581 89% 14% 1.0% 40 0 0% *** free_stream() called *** Successfully enabled DPMS Segmentation fault http://plf.zarb.org , these are the packages installed in this order, libggi-2.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libggi2-2.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libmad0-0.14.2b-1mdk.i586.rpm libmp3lame0-3.93-0.20020422.3plf.i586.rpm libmp3lame0-devel-3.93-0.20020422.3plf.i586.rpm win32-codecs-1.01plf.i586.rpm xvid-20020520-2plf.i586.rpm libalsa2-0.9.0.5rc1mdk.i586.rpm mplayer-0.90-0.pre4.4plf.i586.rpm mplayer-fonts-1.0-3plf.noarch.rpm mplayer-skins-1.3-1plf.noarch.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-0.pre4.4plf.i586.rpm libcss-0.1.0-5.i686.rpm Seems like I have to find libmpeg2, and it seems my choice of libcss isn't liked , yet for just one oh so brief moment there is a picture on immediate startup that then turns to that blocked mush. Sound seems to be there briefly too. Your thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query
Hi there, Libcss isn't needed any more. Mplayer has it's own built in decoder now. It probably wasn't compiled in with the RPM (legal reasons?). As I have said in previous mails about Mplayer... you will save yourself a lot of time just to compile it yourself. DeCss isn't linked, but built in afaik .. at least it's support is. By just installing the package will not ensure that you can play encrypted DVD's with a pre-built binary. On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: At the moment I have an rpm version of MPlayer nearly working, for DeCss use. This is the messages on startup after selecting files: | DEMUXER:Too many (4096in826973 | | bytes)video packets in the buffer | (screen warning ) Picture is blocked or squared , and what does Demuxer mean anyway. MPlayers is invoked in terminal with , ]#gmplayer dialogues say :- libmpeg2 returned from sig11... (bad file?) Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read file DOCS/cd-dvd.html Did you read this? It should explain exactly how to compile DVD support into Mplayer. libmpeg2 returned from sig11... (bad file?) 87% 14% 1.0% 40 0 0% Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! Read file DOCS/cd-dvd.html A: 16.0 V: 12.4 A-V: 3.604 ct: 5.176 1580/1581 89% 14% 1.0% 40 0 0% *** free_stream() called *** Successfully enabled DPMS Segmentation fault http://plf.zarb.org , these are the packages installed in this order, libggi-2.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libggi2-2.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm libmad0-0.14.2b-1mdk.i586.rpm libmp3lame0-3.93-0.20020422.3plf.i586.rpm libmp3lame0-devel-3.93-0.20020422.3plf.i586.rpm win32-codecs-1.01plf.i586.rpm xvid-20020520-2plf.i586.rpm libalsa2-0.9.0.5rc1mdk.i586.rpm mplayer-0.90-0.pre4.4plf.i586.rpm mplayer-fonts-1.0-3plf.noarch.rpm mplayer-skins-1.3-1plf.noarch.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90-0.pre4.4plf.i586.rpm libcss-0.1.0-5.i686.rpm As great it is that people try make RPM's of Mplayer for public use, but I still have to see 1 really successful build that works on all systems. In my opinion there is none.. Mplayer builds to YOUR system.. depending on what software / hardware you have. It's not as simple as a simple binary, but a carefully built package designed for performance. You see, they could build DeCss supprt in, but what point does that have if a user doesn't even have a DVD player? Go tho the Mplayer site, download the tarball (new release today) and read the docs, and there should be no problems. Yes it does take time at first, I give you that, but at least then you have a working MPlayer ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
