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Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 189

[SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

Hi!
I've used 'genkipseudo's PKGBUILD of Mplayer to enable CoreAVC support, but it seems I'm lacking some of the codecs I used to have when I used the normal install of Mplayer. I can no longer play quicktime files in firefox (only sound). For normal playback (not using firefox) WMV doesn't work and some avi's won't play either. I tried to install the win32codecs from aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14946, but that didn't fix the problem.

Can anyone see what codecs I'm missing by looking at the PKGBUILD? I'm still kinda noob so I don't understand compiling completely yet. This is the build I used:

# Mplayer-svn-coreavc
# mplayer-svn patched with support for coreavc
# Modified : me
# Original PKGBUILD by below-----
# Maintainer: Tom Killian <tom@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: lucke <lucke at o2 dot pl>

pkgname=mplayer-svn-coreavc
pkgver=26871
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A movie player for linux"
depends=('libmad' 'libungif' 'cdparanoia' 'gtk2' 'sdl' 'xvidcore'
         'lame' 'libtheora' 'faac' 'libxxf86dga' 'libxv' 'libgl'
         'smbclient' 'aalib' 'lirc-utils' 'x264>=20071202-1'
         'jack-audio-connection-kit')
makedepends=('subversion' 'pkgconfig' 'libcaca' 'unzip' 'live-media' 'libdts')
source=(ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2) 
conflicts=('mplayer')
provides=('mplayer')
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/"
license="GPL"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')

_svntrunk=svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk
_svnmod=mplayer

_coreavctrunk=http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
_coremod=coreavc-for-linux

build() {
  cd $startdir/src

  svn co $_svntrunk $_svnmod --config-dir ./ -r $pkgver
    
  cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build
  cd $_svnmod-build
  
  unset CFLAGS

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --with-extraincdir=/usr/lib/live-media \
  --enable-gui --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-largefiles --enable-menu \
  --enable-x11 --enable-gl --language=all \
  --disable-libdv --disable-liblzo --disable-speex --disable-fribidi --disable-arts \
  --disable-dvdnav --disable-openal --disable-musepack --disable-esd --disable-mga
  
  [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] &&  sed 's|-march=i486|-march=i686|g' -i config.mak
# Lines for coreavc-for-linux
  cd $startdir/src
  svn co $_coreavctrunk $_coremod
  cp -r $_coremod $_coremod-copy
  cd $_coremod-copy
  make -C dshowserver
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
  cp dshowserver/dshowserver $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
  cp loader/registercodec $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
  cd $startdir/src/$_svnmod-build
  patch -p0 < $startdir/src/$_coremod-copy/mplayer/dshowserver.patch
# End of lines for coreavc-for-linux

  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
  cp etc/{codecs.conf,input.conf,example.conf} $startdir/pkg/etc/mplayer
  ln -s /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf
  rm -rf $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/font
  mv $startdir/src/Blue $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default
  
  rm -rf ../$_svnmod-build
}
md5sums=('e4e2020d11b681aac898103b3ba723c4')

What codecs do I need?
(And is a lack of the correct codecs my actual problem?)

Thanks

Last edited by Perre (2008-05-27 20:58:05)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

You need to set the codec directory: ./configure ..... --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs ......

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Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

You need to set the codec directory: ./configure ..... --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs ......

Ah, I'll try that when I get home from work.

Thanks for the answer.

Btw, that's a very "norwegian sounding" nick you've got.

Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

You need to set the codec directory: ./configure ..... --win32codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs ......

Is it possible to do that without having to reinstall?

Edit: Seems I need to add all the important codecs in the PKGBUILD like Mr. Elendig said with the win32codecs. How do I do this? *help*

Last edited by Perre (2008-05-27 18:27:38)

genkipseudo

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Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

weird... i never had trouble playing other files with this package

Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

Yes, it's strange. I've recompiled the package with the option Mr. Elendig suggested and I'll try to reinstall now. Hope it works...

Perre

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

Nope, didn't work. Get this message:

"Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x44495658"

Edit: Nvm... I commented out some "tweaks" in my mplayer config file and now everything works as it's supposed to, even quicktime in firefox.

I guess my capabilities are somewhat lower than my eagerness to try new things out.

genkipseudo, thanks for all the help, both here and on mail. Your willingness to help out a noob really exemplifies the spirit of linux and open source.

Last edited by Perre (2008-05-27 20:08:51)

genkipseudo

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Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

no prob.  I've been helped so much by other people it's nice to give something back.  glad everything worked out