HowTo: Install the very latest MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope

Hi andrew :-)

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Originally Posted by andrew.46

There is a special problem with x264 in that the svn MPlayer will not compile with a build number less than 59. Although the repository now hosts build 60 I have 3 good reasons for compiling x264:

1. This future proofs the guide in case the MPlayer devs ever raise the required build number again.
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Interestingly enough the MPlayer devs have raised the bar again to build 65:

http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer?view=rev&revision=28869

And of course looks like Jaunty is going to ship with build 65, not 60 as I mentioned before.

Andrew

Mplayer is moving ahead. Todays compile is working on VDPAU for AVC, VC1, WMV2 and MPEG1/2. The NVIDIA 180.37 drivers have important fixes for GPU acceleration. Now we just need fixes for:


* Working motion adaptive temporal deinterlacer unlike the crappy simple one implemented currently
* MS WMA Pro decoding - this has been coming for ages and not delivered despite GSOC work on it


And I'll be really impressed if libavcodec ever gets a decoding feature for:

MS WMVP
MS WVP2
Intel IV41
Intel IV50

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Originally Posted by Nullack

Mplayer is moving ahead. Todays compile is working on VDPAU for AVC, VC1, WMV2 and MPEG1/2. The NVIDIA 180.37 drivers have important fixes for GPU acceleration.

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Yup and I am impressed...:D

I saw your other thread and downloaded the demo from nearest file-sharing network....Samsung.Demo.Oceanic.Life.x264.1080p.40Mbps.mkv, 430MB

Wow !!!... some CPU fluctuations but overall perfect..:D

http://ubuntu-pics.de/thumb/10807/snapshot24_qWrzcK.png

(8600GT, 180.37, latest mplayer-SMPlayer as GUI>VDPAU as output)

Yes my friend :)

There is the power of VDPAU

In that file, you have AVC encoding, and to make matters extreme, its 1920x1080 at a bitrate of 40mbps!!

My old test system with its boat anchor AMD Sempron single core does it without breaking a sweat about 15% cpu utilisation. On the other hand my quad core corei7 system without vdpau cant do it........

Just a heads up for a cool vdpinfo utility:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...hlight=vdpinfo

It queries the VDPAU capabilities of your system.

Heres my output as an example:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
API version: 0
Information string: Unknown

Video surface:

name width height types
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420 4096 4096 NV12 YV12
422 4096 4096 UYVY YUYV

Decoder capabilities:

name level macbs width height
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MPEG1 0 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_MAIN 3 8192 2048 2048
H264_MAIN 41 8192 2048 2048
H264_HIGH 41 8192 2048 2048
VC1_SIMPLE 1 8190 2048 2048
VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048
VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048

Output surface:

name width height nat types
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B8G8R8A8 8192 8192 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8

Bitmap surface:

name width height
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B8G8R8A8 8192 8192
R8G8B8A8 8192 8192
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192
B10G10R10A2 8192 8192
A8 8192 8192

Video mixer:

feature name sup
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DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL y
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL y
INVERSE_TELECINE y
NOISE_REDUCTION y
SHARPNESS y
LUMA_KEY y

parameter name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH y 1 4096
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT y 1 4096
CHROMA_TYPE y
LAYERS y 0 4

attribute name sup min max
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BACKGROUND_COLOR y
CSC_MATRIX y
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL y 0.00 1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL y -1.00 1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA y
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA y

I'm trying to combine this guide with this CoreAVC for Linux guide, since I have an MSI Wind, which can't play 720p content without CoreAVC.

Everything looks good so far, but I can't manage to pull mplayer from svn.

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zorael@tleilax:~/coreavc$ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection timed out

zorael@tleilax:~/coreavc$ ping svn.mplayerhq.hu
PING svn.mplayerhq.hu (213.144.138.186) 56(84) bytes of data.
<endless wait>
^C
--- svn.mplayerhq.hu ping statistics ---
187 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 186745ms

zorael@tleilax:~/coreavc$ sudo tracert svn.mplayerhq.hu             
traceroute to svn.mplayerhq.hu (213.144.138.186), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  mail1.telia.com (10.0.0.1)  1.734 ms  3.275 ms  4.270 ms                 
 2  gw3-no27.tbcn.telia.com (81.232.154.1)  13.606 ms  14.607 ms  15.376 ms 
 3  s-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.254.182)  30.601 ms  31.382 ms  32.341 ms   
 4  s-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.252.125)  33.408 ms  33.893 ms  34.980 ms     
 5  level3-117311-s-b3.telia.net (213.248.78.110)  35.688 ms  36.667 ms *   
 6  ae-5-5.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.140.198)  65.550 ms  53.023 ms  53.835 ms
 7  ae-2-2.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.132.138)  51.758 ms  50.490 ms  51.122 ms
 8  ae-7-7.car2.Zurich1.Level3.net (4.69.133.238)  57.129 ms * *                     
 9  ae-11-11.car1.Zurich1.Level3.net (4.69.133.233)  60.212 ms  59.159 ms  61.118 ms 
10  INIT-SEVEN.car1.Zurich1.Level3.net (213.242.67.54)  58.238 ms  67.164 ms  69.529 ms
11  r1zur2.core.init7.net (77.109.128.242)  57.740 ms  58.604 ms  60.766 ms
12  r1zba1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.206)  61.402 ms  62.151 ms  64.575 ms
13  r1zba1.ce.init7.net (77.109.128.178)  65.333 ms  66.064 ms  56.994 ms
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Any mirrors? :<

Hi Zorael,

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Originally Posted by Zorael

I can't manage to pull mplayer from svn.

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Hmmm.... neither can I at the moment. Browsing via web is down also. I guess we just have to wait....

Andrew

No quotes but I do have a question.

I've avoided using Linux until the horrible video tearing with ATI drivers is under control. Seems that milestone is being reached with the release of Jaunty. However, the alpha 6 dist is still quite green and quite slow, even incomplete. I need something more stable. So I installed Intrepid and upgraded to the xserver-xorg package from Jaunty to get the tear free video. It works OK, finally. Now I need to be able to use my game pad in Mplayer and something as simple as compiling mplayer becomes a nightmare. Apparently there are some big changes in the libc6, libxi-dev and a few other packages that prevent me from satisfying compile requirements.

I just want to be able to add joystick support. Can I compile mplayer on my debian 5.0 server and expect it to run under Jaunty?

-siggma

Hi Siggma,

I am afraid that I have no answer for what sounds like a fairly complex compilation problem. I hope that perhaps others may have some insight into this problem.

Apologies,

Andrew

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Originally Posted by andrew.46

Hi Siggma,

I am afraid that I have no answer for what sounds like a fairly complex compilation problem. I hope that perhaps others may have some insight into this problem.

Apologies,

Andrew

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NO biggie, mixing Jaunty and Intrepid repos is the problem. I'll just have to load a virtual copy of Intrepid to compile it I suppose. Thanks for the response and all the time and effort you've put into writing this and other threads.
-Tom