[Howto] Successfully install the svn MPlayer under Hardy Heron

[taisao]

Hi,

Glad you resolved your issue:



To uninstall the mplayer program go to the source directory of mplayer and type:

$ sudo make uninstall

and the program is gone. But is smplayer a front-end for mplayer? In which case I assume you will need a copy of mplayer on your system either repository or compiled.

Regards,

Andrew

uhm, but there is 2x mplayer on my kubuntu

one executeable is in /usr/local/bin/
(MPlayer dev-SVN-r24680-4.1.2 (C) <- installed with the howto)

the other is in /usr/bin/ (which is MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) <- this one is installed with apt-get)

anyway, I think I just leave it like that, it works anyway.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

Hmmm.... mplayer x 2:

uhm, but there is 2x mplayer on my kubuntu one executeable is in /usr/local/bin/
(MPlayer dev-SVN-r24680-4.1.2 (C) <- installed with the howto)
the other is in /usr/bin/ (which is MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) <- this one is installed with apt-get) anyway, I think I just leave it like that, it works anyway.

That's something you don't see every day Certainly this validates my caution in specifying --prefix=/usr/local (which is the default) in the guide that avoids one version overwriting the other.

I guess this means that the repository version will uninstall with:

$ sudo apt-get remove mplayer

while the svn version will uninstall with:

$ sudo make uninstall

from the source directory.

Andrew

[NZ-Wanderer]

Hi there...

I seem to have a problem when it comes to pasting that really HUGE list of files to get...

I get the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libartsc0 is already the newest version.
libflac++6 is already the newest version.
liblzo2-2 is already the newest version.
libmpcdec3 is already the newest version.
libungif4g is already the newest version.
libxvmc1 is already the newest version.
ttf-bitstream-vera is already the newest version.
ttf-bitstream-vera set to manual installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libexpat1-dev: Depends: libexpat1 (= 1.95.8-4) but 1.95.8-4ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
simplicity@Kubuntu:~/source$

I checked apept and it told me that libexpat1 1.95.8-4ubuntu1 is already installed, and when I tried to use adept to install the dev file it would not let me

Please help

[andrew.46]

Hi,

In fact it is a truly huge list of files:

Hi there...
I seem to have a problem when it comes to pasting that really HUGE list of files to get...
I get the following:

[...]
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libexpat1-dev: Depends: libexpat1 (= 1.95.8-4) but 1.95.8-4ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
I checked apept and it told me that libexpat1 1.95.8-4ubuntu1 is already installed, and when I tried to use adept to install the dev file it would not let me
Please help

All is not lost As long as there is only a couple of dev files missing from this 50 megs collection I suspect that you will be ok to continue with the configure process. Have a look at the output of ./configure and it will tell you what is missing and what is included.

The collection of libs and devs has been put together (by me!) to grab as much functionality as possible from mplayer, not all of it would be used by all users. For example did you see all the libungif material? This enables mplayer to output frames of a movie in gif format: multiple stills. So if you did not load all the libungif dev files you would not have access to this feature.

See what I mean? The files are not all mandatory. My advice is to continue, check what configure says and you will probably be ok.

Actually I just dug this out of the official docs. It illustrates perfectly the trial and error nature of compiling the program:

STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run

./configure

to configure MPlayer with the default options. GUI support has to be enabled
separately, run

./configure --enable-gui

if you want to use the GUI.

If something does not work as expected, try

./configure --help

to see the available options and select what you need.

The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.

The rest of this doc can be read at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README


Andrew

[jmrichky]

The guide worked perfect for me. It has played every file I have thrown at flawlessly. Note that since I am using the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, I needed to:

$ wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-amd64-20061203.tar.bz2

Instead of:

$ wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2

I do have one question though. How can I get mplayer to play embedded video in Firefox? When I try to install the plugin through apt, it wants to install mplayer from the repos as well. I am afraid it will replace the shiny new version that I just built.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

You echo my own question:

I do have one question though. How can I get mplayer to play embedded video in Firefox? When I try to install the plugin through apt, it wants to install mplayer from the repos as well. I am afraid it will replace the shiny new version that I just built.

I am a little puzzled with this one too and have been racking my brains for a solution. Any ideas anybody else?

Good to hear it all worked well for you though. I had no idea that there were different codecs for 64bit: you live and learn

Andrew

[shirilover]

I do have one question though. How can I get mplayer to play embedded video in Firefox? When I try to install the plugin through apt, it wants to install mplayer from the repos as well. I am afraid it will replace the shiny new version that I just built.

You can also build mplayerplug-in as well.
The latest version 3.4.5 works well for me.

I'm going to assume you have already successfully built mplayer.
First, we need to grab the source.

wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-3.45.tar.gz
tar -xzvf mplayerplug-in-3.45.tar.gz
cd mplayerplug-in

Also, we need the firefox development files

sudo apt-get install firefox-dev libnss-dev libnspr-dev

Now, we can build the plugin.

./configure
make
make install

make install will install the plugin to your firefox profile directory, usually ~/.mozilla/plugins. If you wish to make them globally available, use sudo make install instead.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

I tried that several times before:

You can also build mplayerplug-in as well.
The latest version 3.4.5 works well for me.

and for the life of me I could never compile it For Gutsy:

sudo apt-get install firefox-dev libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev

Wish I could get it going!!

Andrew

[jmrichky]

I just figured out to get the embedded video in firefox with t he mplayer built from your guide. First you must go to the mplayer source directory and "sudo make uninstall" then (in the same directory) "sudo checkinstall" and finally "sudo apt-get mozilla-mplayer". Hope this helps.

[owcarnia]

I did what your guide said and still have no gui. ubuntu says:

MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)

and then the options... No gui errors for me :/ And since there still was na mozilla plugin I did what jmrichy said and command 'checkinstall' is not found and 'apt-get mozilla-mplayer' is inapropriate somehow. The funny thing is that synaptic finds no installed mplayer packages at all. Is it normal?