HowTo: Install the very latest MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope

[Nullack]

Andrew I am trying to fix a problem. The issue is its somewhat impractical to have to manually setup a link to every user's home directory for the TTF font. I'm using a global configuration file to make the mplayer experience consistent across all users in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf:

# mplayer config file version 0.2 15/04/09
#

# global setup

vo=vdpau
ao=pulse
nolirc=true
nojoystick=true
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf

# DVD navigation

[protocol.dvdnav]
profile-desc="profile for dvdnav:// streams"
mouse-movements=yes
nocache=yes

Even though I have the font correctly defined mplayer spits out:

MPlayer SVN-r29180-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf

Thanks for any help

[andrew.46]

Hi Nullack,

Andrew I am trying to fix a problem. The issue is its somewhat impractical to have to manually setup a link to every user's home directory for the TTF font. I'm using a global configuration file to make the mplayer experience consistent across all users in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf:

font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf

You could try:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf /etc/mplayer/subfont.ttf

Not quite what you were after but it should work as well.

All the best,

Andrew

[Nullack]

Thanks mate. Thats a good suggestion. I gave it a go, I can confirm the /etc/mplayer dir has the subfont in it now. I took out the mplayer.conf font= line so that it did not interfere with the new font.

However mplayer isnt happy:

MPlayer SVN-r29180-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing 1Video_2Audio_2SUBs(timed text streams).mp4.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 2
[lavf] Subtitle stream found, -sid 0
[lavf] Subtitle stream found, -sid 1
VIDEO:  [mp4v]  688x320  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
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))
==========================================================================
[pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality,
        see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 688 x 320 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.15:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 688x320 => 688x320 Planar YV12 
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

What Im after is a way to fix the problem of having to setup a font for every user that has and possibly might be added to my system. I want to globally apply the font so any future users are fine.

[andrew.46]

Hi Nullack,

Hmmm... that should have worked. I am out of ideas, perhaps the mplayer-users might help out with this one?

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi again Nullack,

I am an idiot and please feel free to remind me of the time I gave wrong advice. The path for the system font should in fact be:

$PREFIX/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf

So if you did not specify $PREFIX in your compiling you will need to create the appropriate directory and place the link there:

$ sudo mkdir -pv /usr/local/share/mplayer
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf

If you specified './configure --prefix=/usr' you will need to drop the 'local' bit from the commands of course. I tested this on Jaunty and it works. My apologies for misleading you there, my only excuse is that I am learning as well .

All the best,

Andrew

[bapoumba]

Moved to T&T.

[andrew.46]

Hi bapoumba,

Moved to T&T.

Thank you very much or your trouble,

Andrew

[sephiroth135]

Just to help others, the current latest release r29203 won't compile. The latest version that compiled for me was r29190. I'm using a freshly installed Ubuntu Jaunty RC amd64.

By the time someone reads this message it maybe fixed since from when I noticed the error (r29198 ) to when I found the latest that worked (r29190 ), the latest release had become r29203.

Just change the svn line to:
svn checkout -r 29190 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

for now if you are having the compile issues with the latest.

[andrew.46]

Hi sephiroth135,

Just to help others, the current latest release r29203 won't compile. The latest version that compiled for me was r29190. I'm using a freshly installed Ubuntu Jaunty RC amd64.

Thanks for the warning . Looks like the web interface for the svn repository is going to be down for some time. Those who like to have a look at the change logs to track fixes for broken compilation might find a use for a quick and dirty script I whipped up that will give the log files for the last 6 revisions:

[.......]

Edit: Once again I am an idiot. See next post...

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi,

Or rather than the previous ornate script:

svn log -l 6 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk

Sigh...........

Andrew