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

[buildid]

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.

upgrade from breezy

[angkor]

Very nice howto, just what I was looking for. Worked flawlessly

I have a two questions though.

I made a .deb (never made a .deb before )that I want to install. Do I use fakeroot in stead of 'make install' or after make install?

Secondly when I run mplayer I get this warning:

Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.

What is that about?


Edit: I installed the .deb (got that fakeroot part from the bored2k howto) but the update manager wanted me to 'upgrade' to the repo version so I pinned and locked the compiled version.

[sc30317]

How do you get MPlayer to be the deafult player for all videos?

[angkor]

How do you get MPlayer to be the deafult player for all videos?

You need to right-click one of your videos (e.g. an .avi) go to Properties-> Open with... and select mplayer.

Since I don't know of a way to do this for all video formats at once I repeat this procedure for every format I want played by mplayer.

[lostdata]

i installed the quicksilver skin and i get the following error...

New_Face failed, maybe the font path is wrong
please supply the text font file
/mplayer/sbfont.ttf

[mtn]

Does this work for AMD64? I have had big problems with "make" and "make install". I gat tons of lines like this...

pe_image.c:81: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

and this about half way through loads of lines...

wine/winnt.h:625:2: #error You need to define a CONTEXT for your CPU

I'm new to Linux so have no idea what this means?

All the dependancies seem to install fine. Checked again and they all say "latest version"

[micke1m]

I use amd64 and got the same problem as mtn.

[mtn]

I got Mplayer and libdvdcss2 (for playing encrypted DVDs) working on Ubuntu 6.06 AMD64. Here is how I did it...

Mplayer
I added these repositories in Synaptic. I'm not sure now which one/s I needed as I tried all of them and it didn't seem to work until I noticed the check boxes in Synaptic "Show unsupported applications" and " Show commercial application" after ticking these Mplayer was available for install and worked like a charm.

I also had to disable a couple repositories (see below)

REPOSITORIES I ADDED IN SYNAPTIC
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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse main restricted
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://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multivers

# REPOSITORIES THAT I HAD TO DISABLE
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

[EDIT] This is nonsense. I think it might have got Alien working but this is how I got WINE going: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...hlight=wine+64

JUST OUT OF INTEREST I ADDED THIS REPOSITORY TO GET Alien AND WINE FOR AMD64
deb http://brcha.no-ip.org/apt/ unstable/
[END EDIT]

libdvdcss2
To get DVDs working I followed these instructions here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
under the heading "Playing DVDs" again worked great for me, I can now watch encrypted DVDs no problem.

Hope this helps someone in the future!

P.S. It dose not look like the Win32codec pack works for AMD64 yet! I didn't manage to install that though I have no problem playing most AVI and MPEG movies.

[Myndmelder]

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I followed your instructions, but when I click on mplayer it doesn't start.
A small window pops up for a split second and that is it...

[angkor]

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I followed your instructions, but when I click on mplayer it doesn't start.
A small window pops up for a split second and that is it...

what happens if you start mplayer from the command line?

mplayer {path/to/video/file}