HOWTO: 32bit mplayer on amd64 (wmv9)

[Josef K.]

great works!!!

[Mitush]

ok, it looks like my mplayer32 does work in my amd64 Ubuntu. It plays wmv files, which are (most likely) wm9 encoding.

Now I am trying to watch movie trailers from yahoo.com using firefox-1.0.7. (I do have mplayer firefox plug-in installed.) I assume that the streaming movie clips there are in some form of WM9 encoding. The window which pops up shows mplayer plug-in loaded, but does not play the video, only the sound. I can guees that the plug-in is still 64 bit mplayer, and I could only make it to switch to use mplayer32 stuff...

What do I need to do to watch the trailers?

[Conq]

You don't have to guess to see if it plays a wmv9, while playing mplayer/mplayer32
outputs something like this:
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm:dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)

As for mplayerplug-in, I don't use it, but I'm guessing it is hardwired to the
/usr/bin/mplayer binary. Perhaps this is a configuration option? Or you could
use a sledge and simply rename the two - eg mplayer and mplayer64.

[Mitush]

Thanks for replying. I did try renaming the executable but it didn't help. I guess one of the things which could help me is to understand what is a plug-in and/or how to manage them.

[Mitush]

It works as a plug-in after all. I opened a movie traler from yahoo and looked for processes running. Sure enough there was mplayer with a very long list of options. Deleted window id from the command line and, running from xterm with mplayer32, it shows me the streaming trailer in a separate window, both video and sound. Renamed the files and it worked inside the yahoo popup also! I guess I did something wrong with renaming the first time.

[rastamufasta]

I get this error when trying to install the openoffice.org libs. I get the same error when I try to install mplayer32 after installing these libs.


Unpacking ia32-libs-openoffice.org (from .../ia32-libs-openoffice.org_9_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-openoffice.org_9_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2', which is also in package mplayer32
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)


Anyone know what I can do? Thanks

[Surfels]

It works good. Thank you for the mplayer32. But I have a problem with wmv files from onlinetvrecorder.com. How can I watch these files in fullscreen?

[Cashel]

Hey! This package worked flawlessly for me on Breezy, in Dapper I'm getting:

# dpkg --force-all -i mplayer32_1.0pre6-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 65557 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer32 (from mplayer32_1.0pre6-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/lib32/libcom_err.so.2.1', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libk5crypto.so.3.0', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libkrb5.so.3.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/liblber.so.2.0.130', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libldap.so.2.0.130', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libsasl2.so.2.0.19', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/lib32/libcom_err.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgcrypt.so.11', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgpg-error.so.0', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgssapi_krb5.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libk5crypto.so.3', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libkrb5.so.3', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/liblber.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libldap.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libsasl2.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libtasn1.so.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
Setting up mplayer32 (1.0pre6-1) ...

# ldconfig
# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You said the openoffice libs were dependecies, so why should it want to overwrite them?

At any rate, checking against breezy, it doesnt seem as if libncurses have been moved...

I'll keep working on it tho... any help appreciated..

[Spini]

I guess I have the same problem with tseliot. When I try to open a wmv-file I get this:

mplayer32 video.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing video.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV3] 640x480 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 8001->192000 (64.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
================================================== ========================
open: No such file or directory
vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0 size:921600 align:1
StreamCount r=0x0 1 1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU  
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [3dfx] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
Couldn't open /dev/3dfx

After that the terminal crashes.

I'm a total newbie with linux so I have no idea where to start with this problem.


64-bit Ubuntu 5.10
AMD64
NVIDIA geforce 6800le

Edit: Maybe this problem has something to do with that this HOWTO was written for Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 =)

ps. sorry about my bad English

[smite]

Hey! This package worked flawlessly for me on Breezy, in Dapper I'm getting:

# dpkg --force-all -i mplayer32_1.0pre6-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 65557 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer32 (from mplayer32_1.0pre6-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/lib32/libcom_err.so.2.1', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
...

I wish someone with the required know-how made a dapper-specific version of the mplayer32 package, without this overlap with ia32-libs-openoffice.org.

# ldconfig
# mplayer32
mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is fixed with

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5

only to get

mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory