Compiling MPlayer on a fresh Dapper install, wmv, mp4, etc.

[sapo]

Well, i just installed dapper here and while trying to compile mplayer i noticed that the cvs is down (bored2k said that they are migrating to svn) anyway, i cant stay without mplayer with mp4, and other codecs support.. so i m making this first "scratch" of a howto, so people can just read it instead of solving the problems i had to solve.


GETTING THE DEPENDENCIES

First we need to enable the universe and multiverse repos, if you are lazy, just replace the contents of the /etc/apt/sources.list with this:

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse

After saving the new sources.list:

sudo apt-get update

After the update just paste it on the terminal:

sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper libx11-dev libxv-dev libpng12-dev checkinstall libavcodec-dev libaa1-dev caca-utils libcaca-dev libavcodec-dev libavifile-0.7-dev libsdl1.2debian-all libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libfaac-dev libfaad2-dev libgtk2.0-dev liblame-dev libice-dev libjpeg62-dev libmatroska-dev libmad0-dev libmpcdec-dev libmp4v2-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxinerama-dev libxv-dev xlibs-dev x-dev cvs libquicktime0 libquicktime-dev fakeroot gnome-core-devel libpostproc-dev libx11-dev libxv-dev libavcodec-dev libgtk1.2-dev msttcorefonts nasm subversion

It will download a LOT of stuff, dont be scared its just about 47MB.


GETTING THE CODECS

Now you need to get the codecs from here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Grab the Essential codecs package

To install the Win32 codecs, extract the w32codecs you can double click the package and select extract or in the terminal type:

tar xjvf essential-20060501.tar.bz2

And after that enter the directory you have extracted the package and remove the .deb package rm *.deb on a terminal should do the trick

Still inside the essential codecs dir you have just extracted, do it:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp * /usr/lib/win32

x264 CODEC

Do it on a terminal:

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
cd x264
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

GETTING AND COMPILING MPLAYER FROM SVN

Now you just have to extract the mplayer package and compile it, to do it

In a terminal go to the directory you have just downloaded the Mplayer Package and type the following:

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer

For Dapper Drake use:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --disable-arts --disable-smb --enable-sdl --enable-x11 --enable-theora --confdir=/etc/mplayer --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 --enable-menu --enable-tv-v4l2 --disable-liblzo --enable-largefiles  --disable-libdv --disable-aa --enable-xvid --enable-x264

In Edgy Eft use:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --disable-arts --disable-smb --enable-sdl --enable-x11 --enable-theora --confdir=/etc/mplayer --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/win32 --enable-menu --enable-tv-v4l2 --disable-liblzo --enable-largefiles  --disable-libdv --disable-aa

And the, compile and install

make
sudo make install

Now you can try it out using mplayer on the command line, to use the it with the GUI you need to run gmplayer, but first you need to install a default skin.


INSTALLING A SKIN

Now the last step is install a Skin:

Go to: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html and download a skin, Blue is the Default, but i like the QuickSilver skin

Download, extract the contents of the skin package and rename the extracted folder to default

If you downloaded the Blue Skin, do this:

tar xjvf Blue-1.5.tar.bz2
mv Blue default
sudo cp -R default/ /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/

SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanx to bored2k for his Mplayer Howto that i ve always used, and the help he gave me on the gtalk, i love you biba



Updates:
Updated the links
Now mplayer fom SVN compiles with GCC 4.0 so i updated the commands and the apt-get command to not download gcc-3.4 anymore.
x264 is working now with the SVN version!

[philetus]

Did it work for you?

[zahidism]

so, being the noob that i am, i installed m-player using apt get. is compiling it that much better? i would really love to reap the best quality for my xvids etc

[daschl]

Originally Posted by zahidism so, being the noob that i am, i installed m-player using apt get. is compiling it that much better? i would really love to reap the best quality for my xvids etc

well the point is, that when you install mplayer with apt-get you install it from an official repository and the guys from ubuntu have troubles with the law when they put some codecs in.

if you compile it for yourself you may put the codecs in mplayer which you prefer most

btw: mplayer > *

[buildid]

i did compile but get this message :

gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libjack-0.80.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file:

any idears ?

[sapo]

Originally Posted by buildid i did compile but get this message : gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libjack-0.80.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: any idears ?

Thats weird, did you install all dependencies? are you running a flesh dapper install or did you upgrade from breezy?

btw, this lib is on the breezy reps but it seens that dapper doesnt have it, i ll try finding a link so you can install it.

[shaul26]

Hey, thanks for the howto

About the x264 - I remember that in some post (can't find it) someone put instructions to change something in "codecs.conf" (i'm not sure about the file name) and when I did those instructions I had h264 decoding... and very good, more then in totem...

Hope I've helped..and sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker..

[geearf]

I have no problem using ffmpeg and mplayer last cvs version with x264.

[sapo]

Originally Posted by geearf I have no problem using ffmpeg and mplayer last cvs version with x264.

The x264 in the cvs works fine, but currently the mplayer cvs is down, they are migrating to svn.

[geearf]

I know, though ffmpeg is back.