On Sunday 10 November 2002 11:35 am, Tony Bloomfield wrote:

On Sunday 10 November 2002 12:22, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

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I'm just fiddling around with MPlayer. I've installed libdvdcss (I don't know hwether that was required or not) from the skyblade site, and DVDs play back fine, but with no sound - it says at the beginning that it can't find a codec. Is there something else I need to do, or another bit I need to download from somewhere?

I had the same problem, audio codec A52 or something. After a bit of googling, I downloaded a library called liba52 (or whatever it was) and installed, but it seems you need to recompile Mplayer with some flag or other to enable it.

How peculiar. Hardly an out-of-box experience, then. Now that you mention it, I do recall Thibaut saying something similar, and noting that he had recompiled his own rpms. I think I'll try xine, which worked OK for me before. Thanks Kevin

Well, you could also just download the RPMs from my site: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28610 mplayer MPlayer-0.90pre8-5.i686.rpm MPlayer-0.90pre8-5.src.rpm MPlayer-skins-0.90pre8-5.i686.rpm [optional] This RPM makes ALSA 0.9.x the default output audio format, so there should be no problems with sound. NOTE: You need the libdvdread RPM to play DVDs using this RPM. SuSE 8.1 has this, so just install my RPMs using YaST2 and it will automatically resolve the dependencies. :) On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:02, Clayton Cornell wrote:

MPlayer as provided with SuSE8.1 does not have all the codecs or video support it is capable of enabled. The simplest solution to fix this is to go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ and download the latest version along with the codecs and the skin you like (all provided on the site).

1. Unzip the codecs to /usr/lib/win32 2. Unzip the MPlayer source and cd to that directory 3. ./configure --enable-gui 4. make 5. su to root and make install 6. Unzip the skin to $HOME/.mplayer/Skin 7. If you installed MPlayer with YaST, open your filemanager and tweak the file associations to launch gmplayer instead of mplayer.

That should do it. With the recompile you get support for pretty much every single video format out there.

-- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0

On Monday 11 November 2002 06:12, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

Thanks Karol - I have done this, but I'm going to do a bit more wrestling with the self-compiled version first (see previous post).

Thanks much for the feedback.

One thing I noticed is that your mplayer rpm is dependent on libgg (from gaim?), libggi and libgii (which don't seem to be on the 8.1 discs) - I have downloaded the latter two, but I assume the former is on the disc.

I've fixed it now. I have the libGGI and libGII libraries installed on my machine, along with the RPMs posted on my site []. I hadn't noticed that MPlayer actually used it for output. Because no one uses libGGI (it used to be more popular....) and because SuSE does not distribute it on its CDs, I've disabled libGII output from MPlayer (--disable-ggi), removing the undue burden for the user. I'm uploading Release 6 right nowto my SF.net. Care to try it?

By the way - silly question - how do you get the new improved YaST2 to do an rpm install from a file on the hard disk? The SDB suggests: sux -i yast -i /path/to/package/packagename Is that the correct way, or am I missing something?

I think so: # yast --help Usage: /sbin/yast [OPTIONS] [MODULE] [module specific parameters] OPTIONS: -l, --list list all available modules -g, --geometry default window size (qt only) -s, --style widget style (qt only) -h, --help this screen exceptional case for installing packages: /sbin/yast OPTION <package> OPTION: -i, --install install rpm package <package> can be a single short package name (e.g. gvim) which will be installed with dependency checking, or the full path to an rpm package (e.g /tmp/gvim.rpm) which will be installed without dependency checking # What I actually do is install the RPM through Konqueror (from KDE). It's probably the same thing. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0

What codec does it is missing? Could you possibly post the output of "mplayer -ao help" and "mplayer -vo help"? I would recommend 'xv' as the video output and 'alsa9' as the audio output. What type of file are you trying to play? Have you tried playing something really simple, like, say an ogg or mp3 file? On Monday 11 November 2002 06:03, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

I had an enjoyable (!) couple of hours working my way through this yesterday. First I installed a whole shedload of -devel packages, and the configure, make and install seemed to go OK. I assume everything overwrote the MPlayer rpm that was already installed. However, although I have various audio possibilities now, I still have no sound - if I run "gmplayer" I get the exact same message that the codec can't be found. If I run "gmplayer -ao sdl", I get lots of stuff scrolling down the screen, and then a message that my PC is too slow to run this (Duron 1.3MHz, 256Mb RAM). Any suggestions?

Thanks

Kevin

-- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0