[Howto] Install the svn Mplayer under Intrepid Ibex

[CraymelCage]

Hi,

CraymelCage,



This error has been mentioned on MPlayer-users and at least one person has associated this with the '-wid 50331660' option. Can you try without this option? Best way is to use the command line as follows:

$ mplayer -v dvd://1

I note a similar reference to this error, although not with DVD playback, that was solved differently:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=964514

I suspect that the bare commandline will play your dvd's, but I have been wrong before .

Andrew

It seems to work perfect if I use the commandline perfectly. The disabling screen saver option doesn't fix it in smplayer though. It's a shame because I'd rather not go to the command line just to play dvds.

EDIT: I've also found out that the dvd is playing smplayer but the picture is black except for an occasional grey bar that appears at the top. audio is fine as well.

EDIT: Also can you clarify what '-wid 50331660' is please?

[andrew.46]

Hi CraymelCage,

Also can you clarify what '-wid 50331660' is please?

This is something used by smplayer:

-wid <window ID> (also see -guiwid) (X11, OpenGL and DirectX only)
This tells MPlayer to attach to an existing window. Useful to
embed MPlayer in a browser (e.g. the plugger extension).

although I am not sure how the window ID is generated. Again I am afraid that I do not know how to solve this problem and unfortunately I cannot duplicate the error on my own system. Anybody else with ideas??

Andrew

[CraymelCage]

it still doesn't work when I disable mplayer being embedded in smplayer. I'll see what else I can do. Kay I got it working. I had to disable correct-pts and picture would be displayed but jumpy and strips would flash by so I had to enable software video equalizer and it runs perfect now.

EDIT: Now if only mplayer would support dvd menus it would be the perfect dvd player I don't know why they haven't fixed that.

[rvm4000]

If the picture is black in smplayer, I suggest to try to disable the option "Repaint the background of the video window" in Preferences->Advanced. If that doesn' fix the problem, try another video driver in Preferences->General->Video.

[andrew.46]

Hi CraymelCage,

Now if only mplayer would support dvd menus it would be the perfect dvd player I don't know why they haven't fixed that.

Well actually MPlayer does support dvd menus but it is still a work in progress. Support has to be compiled in and libdvdnav is still an exernal library. Details can be seen in DOCS/tech/dvdnav-howto.txt of the MPlayer tarball although even that is a little out of date now that libdvdread has been incorporated from its svn site.

Andrew

[rvm4000]

Since SVN r28291, the mplayer sources also include an internal copy of libdvdnav. So now there's no need to compile libdvdread4 and libdvdnav4

[andrew.46]

Hi rvm,

Since SVN r28291, the mplayer sources also include an internal copy of libdvdnav. So now there's no need to compile libdvdread4 and libdvdnav4

That is truly great news, I have been waiting for some time for this one! I note that it is auto-detected as well so no configure options need adjusting. I have been waiting to see this for a long time:

Checking for DVD support (libdvdnav) ... yes (internal)

Now to play with the menus .

Andrew

[CraymelCage]

Yes! I've also been waiting ages for this now mplayer really does do everything I want it to

Edit: Kay so I compiled mplayer again and there's no playback problem but gmplayer is enabled by default now. I'm sure you know this but I think it would be good to add how to disable gmplayer since this guide is for using mplayer with smplayer.

Edit2: No, Wait. Ignore what I just wrote. I installed the default mplayer in the repositories by mistake... WOOPS!

[Dakanya]

cpudetect.c: Assembler messages:
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:67: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
cpudetect.c:72: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `popf'
cpudetect.c:73: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:104: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
cpudetect.c:106: Error: bad register name `%rbx'
make: *** [cpudetect.o] Error 1

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

I keep running into this problem trying to compile and install mplayer. Any ideas?

[andrew.46]

Hi Dakanya,

I keep running into this problem trying to compile and install mplayer. Any ideas?

This seems to be quite a turbulent period for the svn MPlayer and I have not been able to successfully compile a revision over the last week or so. Best advice is to wait for a couple of days and try again. You can keep an eye on developments via the MPlayer-users:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/

It will be a worthwhile wait as some major developments are settling in: libdvdnav and libdvdread incorporated from their own svn homes, the new NVidia driver incorporated .....

Andrew