Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Tim Holmes]

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

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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Damian G]

> 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
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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Ralph Slooten]

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

Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[John Richard Smith]

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
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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

> 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.

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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Damian G]

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



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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Barry Michels]

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




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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Damian G]

> 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





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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[John Richard Smith]

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
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Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

[Ralph Slooten]

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

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