Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu

Thanks for that information BicyclerBoy! My newly built computer does not have a bluray drive but I see bluray readers/writers for $100 on ebay so I suspect that when I get back from my holiday I may very well invest in one. I suspect that in this guide and my vlc one I will not be able to publish too many details about aacskeys but looks like details about libbluray and libaacs themselves should not upset anyone. Interesting times indeed :).

Edit: A gratuitous gkrellm screenshot showing my new 8 core computer (AMD FX-8150) compiling the latest svn MPlayer using -j 12. abcde is also ripping and converting in the background :).

I have filched the bluray information from my own vlc-git guide and placed it on the MPlayer guide. I don't have a blueray drive yet (should have in 3-4 weeks) so I will be keen to hear of any problems with this build.

Edit: Somewhat belatedly added in a Live555 version that MPlayer is happy with...

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r34823 | cehoyos | 2012-03-22 17:04:32 -0400 (Thu, 22 Mar 2012) | 1 line

Support FFmpeg WMA lossless decoder.

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Will have to give a test

Edit: works fine (ffwmall

(- currently an opencore* issue, did build without it

The very best of 'Welcome Home!' presents:

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andrew@skamandros~/media/testing$ mplayer luckynight.wma
MPlayer SVN-r34836-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing luckynight.wma.
libavformat version 54.3.100 (internal)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
 title: Lucky Night
 author: Jody Marie Gnant
 copyright: 1995 Sirius Publishing
 comments: 1-minute song sample demonstrating Windows Media lossless audio compression
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
libavcodec version 54.12.100 (internal)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 868.7 kbit/61.55% (ratio: 108583->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmall] afm: ffmpeg (WMA lossless audio (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  60.6 (01:00.5) of 60.5 (01:00.4)  2.7%


Exiting... (End of file)

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:)

Just to note - starting with checkinstall 1.6.2-3ubuntu1 fstrans is now disabled by default again

* I'm gathering that if the wiki deal proceeds that a link to & support of can remain here, ect.

April 29th 2012

Due to the upcoming changes to this guide's old home on these Forums I have, with much regret, moved this guide to my own personal website:

Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mplayer.html

where I have just now released an updated version for Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin.

I attach a complete copy of the older guide as mplayer_guide.gz in case anybody wishes to make a wiki, blog, web page etc of this guide as it was for Oneiric Ocelot.

Andrew

OK I have archived the guide (attached to the first post) [...]

If anybody wishes to produce a wiki page from this guide please go ahead, all the information is contained as mplayer_guide.gz attached to the first post of this thread.

Andrew

Actions speak louder than words, eh ? :) I may not be far behind you......

Mind you I have also converted a couple of guides, one today and a few less recently:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Leafnode2
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/slrn
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/find

But these are guides that work fine in a wiki environment, others such as my MPLayer and vlc guides are not suited. Personal website is ok, an atmosphere such as T&T would be better for these...

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Originally Posted by mc4man

(- currently an opencore* issue, did build without it

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Looks like the --disable-mencoder option is implicated, certainly builds ok if mencoder builds as well. I have asked for help.....

BTW you may have noticed that opencore-amr has released a new version with some small but worthwhile changes:

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0.1.3
 - Adjusted libtool flags for building DLLs for windows
 - Update to the latest upstream opencore source
 - Updated and improved example applications
 - Add options for enabling the arm inline assembly
 - Add options for disabling the encoder or decoder in the amrnb library
 - Avoid dependencies on libstdc++ if building the source as C
 - Hide internal symbols in shared libraries
 - Minor tweaks
 - Remove old static makefiles and corresponding build scripts

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Looks like this will not be in Precise, but it is installed on my system :)