HowTo: Install the very latest MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope

[Nullack]

Congrats of the award with your howto Andrew

Mplayer SVN isnt happy at the moment due to whats seems to be ffmpeg:

mpeg12.c: At top level:
mpeg12.c:608: error: static declaration of 'mpeg1_decode_block_intra' follows non-static declaration
mpeg12.c:323: note: previous implicit declaration of 'mpeg1_decode_block_intra' was here
make[1]: *** [mpeg12.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nullack/src/mplayer/libavcodec'
make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2

[andrew.46]

Hi Nullack,

Congrats of the award with your howto Andrew

Thanks! This has given me the needed kick to produce another guide for MPlayer and Karmic Koala. I am contemplating a few changes that I would be interested in your thoughts on:

1. Omitting x264 encoding + MEncoder completely by passing '--disable-mencoder --disable-x264'. A bit controversial perhaps?
2. Adding in the generation of the html docs (again)
3. Adding in a sample $HOME/.mplayer/config
4. Draw the codecs from Medibuntu instead of directly from MPlayer site

Mplayer SVN isnt happy at the moment due to whats seems to be ffmpeg:

[...]make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2

Thanks for the heads up, I will hold off updating for a day or 2 .

Andrew

[gitpik]

Hello, much obliged for the guide!

However I'm also running into the compile error that nullack has mentioned above. Could someone direct me to a way to get an older version to compile? still new to compiling and svn/git.

[mc4man]

Instead of
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
use this format
svn checkout -rxxxxx svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

so if tonights was 29311 go a number or so back


Ex. 4 back

svn checkout -r29307 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

Andrew had a neat way to check the changes x number of -r's back. I'm sorry to have forgotten it (hint

[andrew.46]

Hi mc4man,

Andrew had a neat way to check the changes x number of -r's back. I'm sorry to have forgotten it (hint

Yes, not my finest moment I am afraid . I spent a considerable amount of time writing a script to present the svn logs for a set number of revisions and then discovered that svn itself can do this with no problems!

The syntax for viewing the last 6 changes for example:

andrew@skamandros~/source/mplayer/mplayer$ svn log -l 6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29310 | diego | 2009-05-16 09:17:25 +1000 (Sat, 16 May 2009) | 2 lines

Add missing path to find invocation for tags/TAGS creation.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29309 | diego | 2009-05-16 08:24:12 +1000 (Sat, 16 May 2009) | 4 lines

Simplify find invocation in tags/TAGS generation command:
- Drop '-print', which is the default for find.
- Drop unnecessary invocation of find in a subshell.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29308 | bircoph | 2009-05-14 05:44:44 +1000 (Thu, 14 May 2009) | 3 lines

Revert whitespace removal for win-related code, because lack of ^M at
linebreaks may cause problems in win.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29307 | bircoph | 2009-05-14 04:42:38 +1000 (Thu, 14 May 2009) | 4 lines

Restore old license file after whitspace removal in previous commit.
Legal stuff is very fragile and shouldn't be changed, even for
whitespace cosmetics.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29306 | bircoph | 2009-05-14 01:22:13 +1000 (Thu, 14 May 2009) | 4 lines

Remove all kind of trailing whitespaces from all MPlayer's files.
This affects all kind of spaces (' ',^I,^M,^L,...): actually
[:space:] regex character set.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r29305 | diego | 2009-05-13 12:58:57 +1000 (Wed, 13 May 2009) | 2 lines

whitespace cosmetics: Remove all trailing whitespace.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
andrew@skamandros~/source/mplayer/mplayer$

All the best,

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi gitpick,

Hello, much obliged for the guide!

It is my pleasure .

However I'm also running into the compile error that nullack has mentioned above. Could someone direct me to a way to get an older version to compile? still new to compiling and svn/git.

I have just successfully compiled r23911 so everything must be back on track again.

All the best,

Andrew

[gitpik]

svn checkout -rxxxxx svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

Thank you both for getting back to me so fast that's exactly what I needed. Although for some reason I tried every build back to 29307 and none would compile for me last night. This morning I tried again with 29311 on andrews recommendation and everything worked great! I did poke around the man page for svn last night a little. Would this do something similar?

svn update -rxxxxx

As a side note does anybody have any idea why the new electricsheep would refuse to run with this version of mplayer?

[kthxbai2u]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[andrew.46]

Hi gitpik,

I did poke around the man page for svn last night a little. Would this do something similar?

svn update -rxxxxx

Both commands have this option. If you are a little new to svn (or even if you are an old hand!) you can have a look at the available options by running: svn help <subcommand>. So to see the options for 'update':

svn help update

and the same for 'checkout', 'log', 'update' etc.

As a side note does anybody have any idea why the new electricsheep would refuse to run with this version of mplayer?

You have got me there . What on earth is, or are, electricsheep?

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi kthxbai2u,

Great tutorial, thanks!

My pleasure, I hope you enjoy this great software .

Andrew