[Howto] Successfully install the svn MPlayer under Hardy Heron

[webbie180]

I am a gusty user. How do I get the channel list for sopcast and nslive in gmlive? Thanks.

[andrew.46]

Hi again!

I have finally found the solution to this problem:

Thanks for posting this guide, but I am having a problem with mplayer.
What I am trying to do is open an file via right click, and then open with mplayer. No matter what file I try to open, I get this error.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It turns out to be a problem with the desktop settings for Gmplayer in combination with spaces in filenames. To resolve:

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To Resolve "Cannot open file error" with Gmplayer
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There is a problem with Gmplayer at the moment that prevents it from playing movie files directly from Nautilus or from right click on the file itself. This occurs if there is a space in the filename or the path to the filename. There is an easy solution:

Press Alt-F2 and then:

$ gksudo gedit /usr/local/share/applications/mplayer.desktop

You will see a line that says:

Exec=gmplayer %U

Change this to:

Exec=gmplayer %F

or perhaps more correctly:

Exec=gmplayer

Save the changes and exit. All should be well now

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Please tell me if this resolves the issue for you,

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi,

For those who are interested I include the method for enabling dvd menus in the svn mplayer. This is not appearing in the main 'Howto' as the implementation of libdvdnav in mplayer is still in its very early stages and I am a little wary of offering support for such early beta efforts. Nevertheless the following works quite well on my system:

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Emabling DVD Navigation in the svn Mplayer
==================================

1. Download and install libdvdread and libdvdcss

2.Download the svn libdvdnav source:

$ svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav libdvdnav

and compile / install it:

$ cd libdvdnav
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

3. Add the following option when compiling the svn mplayer:

$ ./configure --disable-dvdread-internal

and compile as usual.

4. Add the following to ~/.mplayer/config:

mouse-movements=yes

5. Use the following to see the navigation menu for the movie:

$ mplayer dvdnav://

6. Navigation can be from the mouse or with the num pad keys:

(The following keys are only valid if you compiled with dvdnav
support: They are used to navigate the menus.)

keypad 8 Select button up.
keypad 2 Select button down.
keypad 4 Select button left.
keypad 6 Select button right.
keypad 5 Return to main menu.
keypad 7 Return to nearest menu (the order of preference is: chapter->title->root).
keypad ENTER Confirm choice.

And there you have it. When and if libdvdnav is better integrated with mplayer I will add it to the main 'Howto' section.

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi,

I am afraid that I cannot help you with this:

I am a gusty user. How do I get the channel list for sopcast and nslive in gmlive? Thanks.

as I have absolutely no knowledge or experience of this. Anybody here who can help out?

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi,
Again I publish a little 'add-on' to my 'Howto' this tims a few lines that describe how to add amr widwband and narrow band support for mplayer.

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'Howto' add amr support to your svn mplayer
===============================================

This mini 'howto' describes the method to add amr support to your svn mplayer installation and is written especially for the father of 'the laughing girl'.

1. amr narrow band:

 
$ cd $HOME/Desktop
$ wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrnb-7.0.0.0.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf amrnb-7.0.0.0.tar.bz2
$ cd amrnb-7.0.0.0
$ wget http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/26_series/26.104/26104-700.zip
$ ./configure  --enable-shared --disable-static
$ make
$ sudo make install

2. amr wide band:

$ cd $HOME/Desktop
$ wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrwb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf amrwb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
$ cd amrwb-7.0.0.2
$ wget http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/26_series/26.204/26204-700.zip
$ ./configure  --enable-shared --disable-static
$ make
$ sudo make install

With both installed you now need to recompile the svn mplayer source code. Mplayer will automatically pick up the amr libraries and allow their use in Mplayer. Don't forget to run:

$ sudo make clean

before recompiling. And all the best to the father of 'the laughing girl'!!

Andrew

[miguelitu]

hey, andrew, great work! im very thankful!

just tried your how-to to add the amr support, but got this error:

gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libamrnb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

in the ./configure process, both amr were finded, and the file is ther at /usr/lib

any thoughts??

thanks!

[andrew.46]

Hi,

Glad you liked the work!

just tried your how-to to add the amr support, but got this error:
gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libamrnb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
in the ./configure process, both amr were finded, and the file is ther at /usr/lib

If the file is there but cannot be accessed you probably do not have a "shared library" installation, just make sure that you ran:

$ ./configure  --enable-shared --disable-static

for both files. Can you run through the amr bit again ensuring this is the case? Possibly you caught a very early post of mine which omitted these directions, if so my apologies

Andrew

[miguelitu]

Yes, ive compiled just the way you described..

I added the --prefix=usr as described in this [URL="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=491885"]thread[/URL ] and now it works! strange...

but im having other trouble here. ive been using your guide to compile the svn, and were able to play some rmvb files pretty well, but recently i did a fresh install of ubuntu on my PC, compiled mplayer again and im getting this error when i try to play the same rmvb files:

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/local/lib/codecs/drvc.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/local/lib/codecs/drv4.so.6.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/local/lib/codecs/drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

i cant figure out... all codecs are there, i even tried to download the realplayer ones from the codecs directory, but still getting nothing.

any clues?

thanks a lot.

[andrew.46]

Hi,

Glad to hear that the amr codecs eventually worked out:

Yes, ive compiled just the way you described..

I added the --prefix=usr as described in this [URL="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=491885"]thread[/URL ] and now it works! strange...

Does not sound quite right but if it works .....

but im having other trouble here. ive been using your guide to compile the svn, and were able to play some rmvb files pretty well, but recently i did a fresh install of ubuntu on my PC, compiled mplayer again and im getting this error when i try to play the same rmvb files:

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/local/lib/codecs/drvc.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed .......

Multiple codec errors. Hmmmm..... I have not seen this type of file before, do you have a copy that you could post online somewhere? I would be curious to see if my own copy of mplayer could play it.

Do you definitely have the full codec pack? The ones at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...071007.tar.bz2

Andrew

[andrew.46]

Hi again:

i cant figure out... all codecs are there, i even tried to download the realplayer ones from the codecs directory, but still getting nothing.

You should have the following in your codecs directory:

andrew@ilium/usr/local/lib/codecs$ ls
AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx          cook.so.6.0   l3codeca.acm    rt32dcmp.dll  vp31vfw.dll
BeHereiVideo.qtx             ctadp32.acm   l3codecx.ax     scg726.acm    vp4vfw.dll
CLRVIDDC.DLL                 ddnt.so.6.0   lhacm.acm       sipr.so.6.0   vp5vfw.dll
CtWbJpg.DLL                  divx.dll      lsvxdec.dll     sp5x_32.dll   vp6vfw.dll
DECVW_32.DLL                 divx_c32.ax   m3jp2k32.dll    tm20dec.ax    vp7vfw.dll
LCMW2.dll                    divxa32.acm   m3jpeg32.dll    tokf.so.6.0   vssh264.dll
LCODCCMW2E.dll               divxc32.dll   m3jpegdec.ax    tokr.so.6.0   vssh264core.dll
LCodcCMP.dll                 divxdec.ax    mcdvd_32.dll    tsccvid.dll   vssh264dec.dll
QuickTime.qts                dnet.so.6.0   mcmjpg32.dll    tsd32.dll     vsshdsd.dll
QuickTimeEssentials.qtx      drv2.so.6.0   mi-sc4.acm      tssoft32.acm  vsslight.dll
QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx  drv3.so.6.0   mpg4c32.dll     tvqdec.dll    vsswlt.dll
README                       drv4.so.6.0   mpg4ds32.ax     ubv263d+.ax   wma9dmod.dll
VDODEC32.dll                 drvc.so       msadp32.acm     ubvmp4d.dll   wmadmod.dll
ViVD2.dll                    dspr.so.6.0   msg711.acm      ultimo.dll    wmsdmod.dll
acelpdec.ax                  frapsvid.dll  msgsm32.acm     vdowave.drv   wmspdmod.dll
alf2cd.acm                   huffyuv.dll   msh261.drv      vgpix32d.dll  wmv8ds32.ax
aslcodec_dshow.dll           i263_32.drv   msms001.vwp     vid_3ivX.xa   wmv9dmod.dll
aslcodec_vfw.dll             iac25_32.ax   msnaudio.acm    vid_cvid.xa   wmvadvd.dll
asusasv2.dll                 iccvid.dll    msrle32.dll     vid_cyuv.xa   wmvdmod.dll
asusasvd.dll                 icmw_32.dll   msscds32.ax     vid_h261.xa   wmvds32.ax
ativcr2.dll                  imaadp32.acm  msvidc32.dll    vid_h263.xa   wnvplay1.dll
atrac3.acm                   imc32.acm     mvoiced.vwp     vid_iv32.xa   wnvwinx.dll
atrc.so.6.0                  ir32_32.dll   nsrt2432.acm    vid_iv41.xa   wvc1dmod.dll
avimszh.dll                  ir41_32.dll   pclepim1.dll    vid_iv50.xa   xanlib.dll
avizlib.dll                  ir50_32.dll   qdv.dll         vivog723.acm  zmbv.dll
clrviddd.dll                 ivvideo.dll   qpeg32.dll      vmnc.dll
cook.so                      jp2avi.dll    qtmlClient.dll  voxmsdec.ax

This represents the full codec pack: all-20071007.tar.bz2

Andrew