[Howto] Install the svn Mplayer under Intrepid Ibex

[mocha]

I have found some connection issues with connections to some live streams from the ABC ClassicFM website in Australia. Once connected there was no problem but I saw improvements with compiling my own libraries and compiling MPlayer against these: connecting well almost all of the time.

Interesting. Is your problem that the RTSP stream will try to connect and then not connect unless you attempt it several times? I occasionally see this problem when mplayer plugin trys to open an embedded RTSP stream in Firefox, but I always assumed the problem was with the stream itself.

Can I install updated live555 libs independantly without recompiling mplayer? Will they still get used? or do they have to be installed prior to compiling?

[andrew.46]

Hi mocha,

Interesting. Is your problem that the RTSP stream will try to connect and then not connect unless you attempt it several times? I occasionally see this problem when mplayer plugin trys to open an embedded RTSP stream in Firefox, but I always assumed the problem was with the stream itself.

Yes this is the problem, but I have not used the MPlayer plugin so I am not sure about this one.

Can I install updated live555 libs independantly without recompiling mplayer? Will they still get used? or do they have to be installed prior to compiling?

They will need to be installed prior to compiling MPlayer and should be picked up by the configure process:

Checking for LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries ... yes (using /usr/lib/live)

Details of MPlayer and Live555 can be seen here. You will note on this page that the current advice is to use VLC .

Andrew

[mocha]

Yes this is the problem, but I have not used the MPlayer plugin so I am not sure about this one.

What do you mean? I thought that the mplayer plugin was using the mplayer that we are building here as its backend. Is the mplayer window in a web browser using its own special mplayer?

[andrew.46]

Hi mocha,

I thought that the mplayer plugin was using the mplayer that we are building here as its backend. Is the mplayer window in a web browser using its own special mplayer?

No it is the same MPlayer that the plugin uses. I was just saying I have no experience myself in using the MPlayer plugin as I have never installed it .

I would be interested to hear if you build the newer Live555 libraries and experience any difference in your use of streams.

All the best,

Andrew

[abhilashm86]

hey thanks for those commands,i got it,now i am playing mkv file,don't know how,yesterday it din't work!!!!!!!gud one

abhilash@abhi:~$ mplayer mplayer /media/SONGS/Film/*.mkv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28208-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing mplayer.


Playing /media/SONGS/Film/Untraceable.2008.DVDRip.x264.Adz-300MB.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AAC), -aid 0, -alang und
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) "English Subs", -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 640x264 24bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
================================================== ========================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 264 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.42:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 640x264 => 640x264 Planar YV12
[swscaler @ 0x895d0c0]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter. 5% 1.7% 13
===== PAUSE =====

[IronFox]

great guide but i get this error with exit code 1:
mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -msglevel demux=6 -slave -vo xv, -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 62914572 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -nocache -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 /home/jordan/Desktop/[gg]_Maria+Holic_-_01_[Pre-Airing]_[8AA4255B].mkv

MPlayer dev-SVN-r28216-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Unknown option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver
Error parsing option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver

[andrew.46]

Hi IronFox,

great guide but i get this error with exit code 1:
[...]
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28216-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Unknown option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver
Error parsing option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver

Can I ask that you try to play your file from the commandline? I am running the same svn version as you and the option works fine:

andrew@skamandros:~/Desktop$  mplayer -stop-xscreensaver 100_0057.MOV 
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28216-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5500  @ 1.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing 100_0057.MOV.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [jpeg]  640x480  24bpp  14.991 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 comments: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY  KODAK M853 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 11025 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->11025)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 11025Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 
A:  15.0 V:  14.9 A-V:  0.018 ct: -0.027   0/  0  8%  1%  0.3% 2 0

which I suspect means a question for RVM if he is around, this is probably a question related to smplayer? As a start perhaps you could un-check the following option in smplayer:

SMPlayer --> Options --> Preferences --> General --> Video --> Disable Screensaver

Andrew

[rvm4000]

If mplayer doesn't recognize the -stop-xscreensaver option I guess it's because it hasn't been compiled correctly (missing development libraries).

[IronFox]

from the command line i get the same error:

root@jordan-laptop:/home/jordan/Desktop# mplayer -stop-xscreensaver \[gg\]_Maria+Holic_-_01_\[Pre-Airing\]_\[8AA4255B\].mkv
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28216-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Creating config file: /root/.mplayer/config
Unknown option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver
Error parsing option on the command line: -stop-xscreensaver

BUT when I run it from the command line with no arguments its seems to work, though im not getting a video window (should I).

and when i uncheck the disable screensaver box":

MPlayer dev-SVN-r28216-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Unknown option on the command line: -nostop-xscreensaver
Error parsing option on the command line: -nostop-xscreensaver

When I compiled the libraries I didnt get any errors. But when I try the headers I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gettext is already the newest version.
gettext set to manually installed.
html2text is already the newest version.
html2text set to manually installed.
intltool-debian is already the newest version.
intltool-debian set to manually installed.
libartsc0 is already the newest version.
libartsc0 set to manually installed.
libaudio2 is already the newest version.
libaudio2 set to manually installed.
libenca0 is already the newest version.
libenca0 set to manually installed.
libfaac0 is already the newest version.
libfaac0 set to manually installed.
libfreebob0 is already the newest version.
libfreebob0 set to manually installed.
libggi-target-x is already the newest version.
libggi-target-x set to manually installed.
libggi2 is already the newest version.
libggi2 set to manually installed.
libgii1 is already the newest version.
libgii1 set to manually installed.
libgii1-target-x is already the newest version.
libgii1-target-x set to manually installed.
libglide2 is already the newest version.
libglide2 set to manually installed.
libjack0 is already the newest version.
libjack0 set to manually installed.
liblzo2-2 is already the newest version.
liblzo2-2 set to manually installed.
libmad0 is already the newest version.
libmad0 set to manually installed.
libmail-sendmail-perl is already the newest version.
libmail-sendmail-perl set to manually installed.
libmp3lame-dev is already the newest version.
libmp3lame0 is already the newest version.
libmpcdec3 is already the newest version.
libmpcdec3 set to manually installed.
libopenal1 is already the newest version.
libopenal1 set to manually installed.
libsvga1 is already the newest version.
libsvga1 set to manually installed.
libsys-hostname-long-perl is already the newest version.
libsys-hostname-long-perl set to manually installed.
libxvidcore4 is already the newest version.
libxvidcore4 set to manually installed.
libxvmc1 is already the newest version.
libxvmc1 set to manually installed.
po-debconf is already the newest version.
po-debconf set to manually installed.
zlib1g-dev is already the newest version.
zlib1g-dev set to manually installed.
E: Couldn't find package libamrnb-dev

It seems I cant find libamrnb-dev and libamrwb-dev but all others are installed

[andrew.46]

Hi IronFox,

I suspect that as RVM has suggested you do not have all the 'dev' libraries installed. Compounding this problem you do not have the Medibuntu Repository enabled: this is the home of the amr dev files amongst others. Can you firstly check that you have the Universe, Multiverse, Main and Restricted Repositories enabled? Details of how to go about this can be seen in the Community Docs:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Can you enable the Medibuntu Repositories as well? Details of this can be seen here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

When this is all done can you run:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

and following this load the entire list of dev files into the terminal and reinstall, as per the guide, and with this hopefully successful run 'svn update' and compile MPlayer again. I notice you have only given about a third of the dev files in your post, is this edited a little or did you miss some?

Hopefully these steps will rectify the problem and you can start to enjoy both MPlayer and SMPlayer .

All the best,

Andrew

Edit: BTW You are not running this all as root are you? Just logon as an unpriviledged user if this is the case and use sudo where required.