MPlayer-1.0rc2 + mencoder Feb 2008

Audio editors, music players, video players, burning software, etc.
Message
Author
MUguest
Posts: 73
Joined: Sat 09 Dec 2006, 16:40

#31 Post by MUguest »

MPlayer-extra-libs.pet

It is packaged wrong.
The symlinks in /usr/X11R7/lib point to a nonexistent folder.

I attach a pet, where I corrected them.

Mark
Attachments
MPlayer-extra-libs.pet
for Puppy 4 only !!!
(14.71 KiB) Downloaded 1499 times

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#32 Post by tempestuous »

Ah yes! Thanks Mark. I have attached your fixed dotpet to the first post.
I created the original dotpet in the early days of Puppy4.0 alphas, when I was forced to stop using emelFM and upgrade to emelFM2 to be compatible with Puppy 4.0's GTK2. Early versions of emelFM2 failed to copy symlinks properly.

User avatar
MU
Posts: 13649
Joined: Wed 24 Aug 2005, 16:52
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Contact:

#33 Post by MU »

I have created a pet, that should include all required files for Puppy 4.12.

To avoid conflicts with other libraries, they are installed to
/usr/local/MPlayer/libs1rc2/

I renamed mplayer to mplayer.bin and added startscripts, that "include" those libs.
These libs are included:

drvc.so
libamrnb.la
libamrnb.so
libamrnb.so.3
libamrnb.so.3.0.0
libamrwb.la
libamrwb.so
libamrwb.so.3
libamrwb.so.3.0.0
libdvdcss.la
libdvdcss.so
libdvdcss.so.2
libdvdcss.so.2.0.8
libdvdnav.la
libdvdnavmini.la
libdvdnavmini.so
libdvdnavmini.so.4
libdvdnavmini.so.4.1.1
libdvdnav.so
libdvdnav.so.4
libdvdnav.so.4.1.1
libdvdread.la
libdvdread.so
libdvdread.so.4
libdvdread.so.4.1.1
libfaac.so
libfaac.so.0
libfaac.so.0.0.0
libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1.2
liblircc.la
liblirc_client.la
liblirc_client.so
liblirc_client.so.0
liblirc_client.so.0.2.0
liblircc.so
liblircc.so.0
liblircc.so.0.0.0
libtheora.a
libtheora.la
libtheora.so
libtheora.so.0
libtheora.so.0.3.2
libx264.so
libx264.so.58
libXvMC.so.1
libXvMC.so.1.0.0
libXvMCW.so.1
libXvMCW.so.1.0.0
libXxf86dga.so.1
libXxf86dga.so.1.0.0

I also uploaded a small utility to use Mplayer as Webcamviewer.
My readme:

This viewer does:
load a compatibility library, so that video4linux2 streams can be used by applications
supporting only video4linux(1) correctly.

Like this Mplayer can be used to display the streams from the webcam drivers for Kernel 2.6.28.5.

Details:
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html


Download:
http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Multim ... -puppy412/

Let me know, if anything misses.
Mark
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=173456#173456]my recommended links[/url]

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#34 Post by tempestuous »

Mark, it's strange that it's necessary to move the MPlayer libs out of /usr/lib
I presume you are responding to forum member ravensrest's problem when trying to view a webcam with MPlayer.

I just installed MPlayer-1.0rc2.pet with MPlayer-extra-libs.pet, in a fresh boot to the Puppy 4.1.2 liveCD. Video and audio playback is perfect. GMPlayer gui works fine. But I don't have a webcam that I can test with.

Of course, it's possible that there is something different about Puppy 4.2? I can't be bothered downloading 4.2 to test.

Regarding libv4l, the download link mentioned here is libv4l-0.1
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html
but that's outdated.
I provided libv4l-0.5.8 a few months ago here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 689#270689

and I see that the latest version is currently libv4l-0.5.97, from
http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/

User avatar
MU
Posts: 13649
Joined: Wed 24 Aug 2005, 16:52
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Contact:

#35 Post by MU »

tempestuous

No, it is not really necessary.

I moved them for another reason.
I do it like this in newyearspup, it just has a smaller amount of libs, as e.g. xorg is more complete than in Puppy.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of multimedia sfs or pets, or even larger ones, like Gnome.

They sometimes contain own versions of some of these libs.
To avoid conflics by the different versions, I now moved them to an own folder.
So if you install in addition "pup-radio-tv-whatever.pet" with own libtheora and other libs, there is no conflict.
Even after un-installing such a pet, mplayer continues to work.


Thanks for the info about the newer libv4l, I will update the pet this evening.

Mark
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=173456#173456]my recommended links[/url]

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#36 Post by tempestuous »

Understood.

Regarding libv4l, my version was compiled against Xorg7.3 in Puppy4.1.
But I understand that Newyearspup uses Xorg7.4?
If so, I suggest you compile libv4l against Xorg7.4 for maximum compatibility.

User avatar
MU
Posts: 13649
Joined: Wed 24 Aug 2005, 16:52
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Contact:

#37 Post by MU »

I sometimes have the issue, that movies do not have a correct aspect ratio.
There are black bars on top and bottom, and faces look too wide.

It seems, that the following simple script is a good solution.
No more black bars, the movie is scaled to the physical size of the screen.

It requires xscreensize:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=7845

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash
x=`xscreensize | cut -d ' ' -f1`
y=`xscreensize | cut -d ' ' -f2`
gmplayer -fs -x $x -y $y "$@"

Mark
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=173456#173456]my recommended links[/url]

friendlybiker
Posts: 27
Joined: Sat 10 May 2008, 20:19
Location: Madison, WI

Crashes in 4.2

#38 Post by friendlybiker »

I downloaded this in 4.1.2 and worked fine. I updated to 4.2 on two laptops and it freezes up. I wish we had a stable version of mplayer.
[b][color=red]friendlybiker[/color][/b]

------------------------------
5.2.8-Lucid
"Where the North Begins"

mawebb88
Posts: 246
Joined: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 09:54
Location: France nr Lyon

Mplayer with BBC RAM files

#39 Post by mawebb88 »

Installed the mplayer apps from the Puppy 4 repository. Corrected the ..jwmrc entry as reported earlier in the thread. Set the run action for the attached file (r4.ram temporary renamed to r4.tif as ram extensions are not allowed for attachments on this forum!) to:

Code: Select all

gmplayer "$@"
but it did not play the stream. Changed the run action to:

Code: Select all

gmplayer -playlist "$@"
and it now plays the stream all be it with a "invalid chunksize" error (which is reported on the mplayer forums but no solution as far as far II can see..

If the mplayerplugin is used on a embedded link in a web page to a RAM stream I do not get the error.
Rgds Mike
Attachments
r4.tif
Really r4.ram but the forum does not allow ram extensions
(236 Bytes) Downloaded 801 times

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#40 Post by tempestuous »

mawebb88 wrote:Installed the mplayer apps from the Puppy 4 repository.
The version of MPlayer from the official repository is somewhat different to the version which is the subject of this forum thread.
The repository version does not have all of the advanced features listed in the first post.
mawebb88 wrote:all be it
No offence, the word is "albeit".

mawebb88
Posts: 246
Joined: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 09:54
Location: France nr Lyon

Mplayer

#41 Post by mawebb88 »

tempestuous wrote:
mawebb88 wrote:Installed the mplayer apps from the Puppy 4 repository.
The version of MPlayer from the official repository is somewhat different to the version which is the subject of this forum thread.
The repository version does not have all of the advanced features listed in the first post.

I missed what the advance features were. I think they are mainly DVD or VideoCD related which I don't need on my EeePC901 as it does not have an optical drive.
mawebb88 wrote:all be it
No offence, the word is "albeit".
Well I never new that! Thanks :)

BTW No offense "offence" should be "offense"!
Rgds Mike

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#42 Post by tempestuous »

mawebb88 wrote:"offence" should be "offense"!
No, that word is indicated as misspelled only by US-English spell checkers.
In English, it's correct.
Similarly, I continue to use "specialise", not "specialize".

No offence taken!

User avatar
MinHundHettePerro
Posts: 852
Joined: Thu 05 Feb 2009, 22:22
Location: SE

#43 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

tempestuous wrote:
MinHundHettePerro wrote:... that your Xorg driver should be "r128".
In fact, it's worth checking this. Because if your Xorg driver is "vesa" that would explain your poor video playback performance.
Please see my comments about DVD playback performance here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 824#196824
Your system is slightly better than the minimum requirements for DVD playback.
Thanx, mate, I'm sorry, the DVD I tried with had some faults, wouldn't play normally in gxine, nor mplayer, in puppy (WinXP, PoerDVD is more forgiving though, I probably haven't learned all the switches, though). Retrying in 214R and 214X4 another DVD worked perfectly :)

cheers/
MHHP
[color=green]Celeron 2.8 GHz, 1 GB, i82845, many ptns, modes 12, 13
Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
Slackos & 214X, ... and Q6xx
[color=darkred]Nämen, vaf....[/color] [color=green]ln -s /dev/null MHHP[/color]

User avatar
MinHundHettePerro
Posts: 852
Joined: Thu 05 Feb 2009, 22:22
Location: SE

#44 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

tempestuous wrote:
MinHundHettePerro wrote:... that your Xorg driver should be "r128".
In fact, it's worth checking this. Because if your Xorg driver is "vesa" that would explain your poor video playback performance.
Please see my comments about DVD playback performance here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 824#196824
Your system is slightly better than the minimum requirements for DVD playback.
Thanx, mate, I'm sorry, the DVD I tried with had some faults, wouldn't play normally in gxine, nor mplayer, in puppy (WinXP, PowerDVD is more forgiving though, I probably haven't learned all the switches, though). Retrying in 214R and 214X4 another DVD worked perfectly :)

cheers/
MHHP
[color=green]Celeron 2.8 GHz, 1 GB, i82845, many ptns, modes 12, 13
Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
Slackos & 214X, ... and Q6xx
[color=darkred]Nämen, vaf....[/color] [color=green]ln -s /dev/null MHHP[/color]

algyzas
Posts: 23
Joined: Mon 24 Nov 2008, 22:13

#45 Post by algyzas »

Hi guys, just made mplayer .pet package from: MPlayer SVN-r29333-4.2.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Tested it on 4.2.1, where it was installed, seems good. Dunno if it is perfect (this is my first .pet :) ). xorg_dri_full is installed in the system. Link is here:

http://uploading.com/files/GM45IWCA/mpl ... 6.pet.html
7029 KB
Console based frontend Mplay:
http://uploading.com/files/C1PPAKXN/mpl ... 6.pet.html

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#46 Post by tempestuous »

algyzas,
What options did you enable with your MPlayer package? Without this information, we're completely in the dark as to why we should use your version.

MPlayer has a plethora of additional options, some are automatically enabled with the configure script, but many need to be explicitly enabled. And of course, some of these options require additional libraries.

For example, quite a few people on this forum use MPlayer as a webcam viewer, but unless you enabled the Video4Linux (V4l/V4L2) input, this option will be disabled.

Or if you didn't enable the "xv" output option, Pentium1/Pentium2 users will have stuttering DVD playback.

It's true that my MPlayer package is 18 months old, but the only significant change to MPlayer since then has been MPEG4 hardware acceleration support. Did you enable one of the MPEG4 acceleration features, such as VDPAU?

maddmike
Posts: 14
Joined: Tue 17 Jun 2008, 20:03

VDPAU or NVIDIA ION support?

#47 Post by maddmike »

tempestuous,
It's true that my MPlayer package is 18 months old, but the only significant change to MPlayer since then has been MPEG4 hardware acceleration support. Did you enable one of the MPEG4 acceleration features, such as VDPAU?
Do you have any plans to update mplayer for puppy to support hardware MPEG4 (H.264) decoding? My home theater uses your mplayer and lirc packages (running on 4.0 with the 2.6.21 kernel). My next plan is to replace the noisy Pentium 4 PC with an Intel Atom/nvidia Ion fanless system. The Ion chipset has hardware H.264 decoding, which allows 1080p HD playback. The Atom CPU by itself can't handle it. I think the only missing piece is a puppy-friendly mplayer that supports the nvidia hardware.

Thanks for your help.

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#48 Post by tempestuous »

maddmike wrote:Do you have any plans to update mplayer for puppy to support hardware MPEG4 (H.264) decoding?
Yes, I will do a "cutting-edge" MPlayer when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.
I might do a "cutting-edge" ffmpeg to match it.
maddmike wrote:My next plan is to replace the noisy Pentium 4 PC with an Intel Atom/nvidia Ion fanless system.
Yes, an excellent choice for for Home Media system. And yes, the onboard Intel video chips typically associated with Atom systems just don't cut it. nVIDIA is the go for video performance.

maddmike
Posts: 14
Joined: Tue 17 Jun 2008, 20:03

release ETA

#49 Post by maddmike »

when Puppy5 (uPup) is released.
When's that?

tempestuous
Posts: 5464
Joined: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 05:12
Location: Australia

#50 Post by tempestuous »

The last I heard was that Barry wants to make uPup library-compatible with Ubuntu Karmic Koala
so according to Google, that means October.

Post Reply