[Howto] MPlayer with CoreAVC

[binbash]

OK i got everything installed this time (on another PC) , when i open a mkv file, it says NO VIDEO

[Cybervirem]

Hi,

the comma at after "-vc coreserve,"

[Bachstelze]

Anybody got it to work with smplayer?

for some reason it doesn't like me puttin rc=coreserve inside .mplayer/config. Though mplayer alone is fine.

thanks again for your time!

It works fine with smplayer here. What you need to add to your config file is:

vc=coreserve,

[SpoZen]

Thanks for the how to, but please add that you have to install yasm 0.7.2 and x264 from this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558538

Now to my problem:

I can't get mplayer to use coreavc after adding this line:

vc=coreserve,

To ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf

It only works if i use this command mplayer -vc coreserve.

Also is their a how to somewhere about 5.1 sound in mplayer?

[andrew.46]

Hi SpoZen,

Thanks for the how to, but please add that you have to install yasm 0.7.2 and x264 from this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558538

h264 decoding comes with FFmpeg's libavcodec, as I believe HymnToLife mentions in this guide, but if you definitely want encoding there is a better method for installing x264 in this thread.

Playback can be seen:

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer -vc help | grep -i 264
ffh264      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264  [h264]
ffh264vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264_vdpau]
vssh264     dshow     working   VSS H.264 New  [vsshdsd.dll]
vssh264old  vfw       working   VSS H.264 Old  [vssh264.dll]

while encoding capability can be seen:

andrew@skamandros~$ mencoder -ovc help | grep -i 264
   x264     - H.264 encoding

Andrew

[SpoZen]

I'm not really sure what you getting at. How does this help me? The outputs doesn't tell me anything useful?

spozen@Luke:~$ mplayer -vc help | grep -i 264
parse error at line 4075
ffh264      ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264  [h264]
ffh264vdpau ffmpeg    working   FFmpeg H.264 (VDPAU)  [h264_vdpau]

vssh264     dshow     working   VSS H.264 New  [vsshdsd.dll]
vssh264old  vfw       working   VSS H.264 Old  [vssh264.dll]

The guide told me to disable mencoder so i can't give you any output from that.

I mentioned x264 because when i tried to compile without it, it just throw out a bunch of errors at me.

[andrew.46]

Hi SpoZen,

I mentioned x264 because when i tried to compile without it, it just throw out a bunch of errors at me.

My apologies I did not fully understand your question and I will admit my motivation in busting in on this thread was simply to guide you to a better installation method for x264 . And to mention in passing the different approaches in MPlayer to decoding and encoding h264 / x264.

Perhaps if you post the actual errors HymnToLife can guide you better? (x264 errors usually relate to an x264 build less than 59 = old Ubuntu problem.)

All the best,

Andrew

[SpoZen]

Well, there are not really any errors, i just can't get it to use CoreAVC by default. To use CoreAVC i now have to type this everytime:

mplayer -vc coreserve clip.mkv

In the guide it's stated you have to add this line to ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf:

vc=coreserve,

But this doesn't work at all, mplayer doesn't use coreAVC.
And i can't use the mplayer -vc command anymoore i only get sound.

[Bachstelze]

In the guide it's stated you have to add this line to ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf

Nope, you must add it to ~/.mplayer/config.

I must admit, though, that my guide doesn't make this very clear. I'm going to add a more thorough section about the different methods that can be used to actually enable CoreAVC.

[SpoZen]

This is my ~/.mplayer/config:

# Write your default config options here!
vc=coreserve,

I still can't get it to use CoreAVC, i am totally out of luck.