[MPlayer-users] Upgrade issues I am puzzled about

[John McKee]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Knutar [mailto:jknutar at nic.fi]
Sent: 11/20/2005 10:13:24 AM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Upgrade issues I am puzzled about

On Sunday 20 November 2005 17:22, John McKee wrote:
> I initially had MPlayer-1.0pre4 installed.  Apparently, I left off the option for it to play realaudio files when I ran configure.  That was all that didn't work, for me.

It should play rm files by default with no extra options required to configure,
but it helps to have the binary codecs installed first.

> How do I get the keyboard control working again?  Why did it work when 1.04 was installed and 1.07 was merely started from the source directory?

Try checking /usr/local/etc/mplayer for any old codecs.conf files,
input.conf or similar left behind. Then check your ~/.mplayer for
the same.

> Also, I musr be doing something wrong with the gui.  When I first started gmplayer, there was a complaint about no default skin.  So, I copied the downloaded the latest skin file and installed all the components into a subdirectory named default.  That stopped the error message, but gmplayer doesn't actually play anything.  When I start gmplayer and include a .rm file on the command line, nothing happens (no gui opens up).  The last line that displays on the console is:

It might be blocking trying to open the audio output. You could try do the
same for the GUI, delete ~/.mplayer/gui.conf to get default settings again.

Perhaps make a backup of it first.

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Following your suggestions, I looked at the two locations.  Both /usr/local/etc/mplayer and ~/.mplayer only had codecs.conf.old in them.  So I am assuming that running 'make install' renamed codecs.conf

Running mplayer from the command line, it seems to work, minus keyboard control.  Audio and video both work.  Yet, a number of messages are produced complaining about audio and video problems:

Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/local/lib/codecs/cook.so'
Error: /usr/local/lib/codecs/cook.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
opening win32 dll 'cook.so'
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: cook.so, /usr/local/lib/codecs/cook.so, /usr/lib/win32/cook.so, /usr/local/lib/win32/cook.so
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/usr/local/lib/codecs/cook.so.6.0'
Audio codec: [0] 8 Kbps Music
Audio bitrate: 8.000 kbit/s (1000 bps)
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 8.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 1000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [racook] afm:realaud (RealAudio COOK)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffrv20] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg RV20 decoder)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 8000Hz/1ch/s16le -> 8000Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 8000Hz/1ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 8000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 8000Hz/1ch/s16le -> 8000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 176 x 144 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 176x144 => 176x144 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGRA special converter
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
A:  30.3 V:  30.0 A-V:  0.343 ct:  0.570 147/147  1%  0%  0.2% 3 0
 
Exiting... (End of file)



I ran xvinfo and received this:
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present




Since codecs.conf is not present in either location, am I supposed to create that file?  

John McKee