mplayer

[clytle374]

amd64; FC5; nivida5700; geforce3 chipset;


I have been trying to install mplayer. I had it working once before, I had to reinstall FC5 (been away from linux for a bit, made a real mess). Now i'm trying to install mplayer (yum, rpm, or sources) play back is choppy and it will play 1 of 5 movies it played before. (all WMV). I have read mplayer docs, nvidia forum, stanton finely's site. I have installed all-codecs, built from sources, rpm, and yum. I have tried all of the video drivers. All with the same result. Part of the reason i made the mess to start with is a script i downloaded for yum was for a i386.
So i decided to try installing 32 bit mplayer and kept getting failed deps. Now I'm trying to use yumex with --forcei386, fails deps. I have these deps openal, direcfb, ect they are 64 bit.

posabilitys are
A) 64 bit mplayer should have worked
B) I had installed 32 bit before, and can't do it now. because i didn't have most of these 64 bit this loaded
C)I'm missing something, start linking lib64=>lib ???? Nope still missing. WHAT please explain
D) I have lost my mind, and it never worked

Thanks for any help
Tired of fighting this, going to sleep.

[smfinley]

If I were you I would wipe my partition and start afresh with Fedora Core 5 i386. I have installed X86_64 several times on my dual core AMD 64 and because of eventual frustrations have always gone back to 32 bit FC on this machine. I'm sure that there are many users on these forums who will agree. From the Notes: "64 bit capable processors like Athlon 64, Opteron and Xeon are backwardly compatible with 32 bit instruction sets and are known to run 32 bit editions of Linux. The 32 bit i386 Fedora Core 5 isos do in fact work with these machines. Because of unresolved issues with 64 bit Fedora Core and because some plug-ins for Firefox only work with the 32 bit version of Firefox I recommend the installation of the 32 bit (i386) isos on 64 bit machines. Your mileage may vary. (Having said this if you prefer to install x86_64 64 bit Fedora Core it is possible to download and install the 32 bit version of Firefox for Linux from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/, extract it into your home directory (or elsewhere), install the 32 bit Sun Java as described below and symlink the java plugin to /home/your_user_name/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so, install the 32 bit versions of Flash, RealPlayer, Mplayerplug-in and Adobe Reader also described below and copy their plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /home/your_user_name/firefox/plugins, and then right click on the browser link in the panel and change its properties from "htmlview %u" to "/home/your_user_name/firefox/firefox".)"

[clytle374]

I'm not real intersted in it working, i want to make it work. As i will break it again soon any way. The browser issue in not a big deal. Maybe I'll try it next. Where would i look find out a few things:

How does yum know what is missing, (the links a added maded no change)
How are binarys and libaries sorted 32 &64 (I assume this is part of the problem.)
Is there something special to get this to work. (There used to be a 32 bit support option was it FC4 maybe)

Thanks

[clytle374]

well i uninstalled all the 64 bit deps that were missing and tried to install the i386 ones, yumex seems to be using some of the 64 bit on the install.
What part of the 64 bit mplayer beacks the codecs? Can i just change the compile config for mplayer. What have others done.???
cory

[Craig Pemberton]

Yum is a network frontend to rpm. It just looks at the build (source rpms only) and install dependencies listed in the rpm's spec file. You can pull that information out of a package or rpm by querying with rpm. Maybe you need rpm2cpio for the full thing though . . .

The architexture is noted in the rpm's and I don't think they will install on the wrong architexture unless you force them. I'm not sure how yum resolves this but it would be interesting to know. I don't know how they arange on the file system. . . .

The Easy Linux website has instructions for the 32 bit verson as well as the codecs. I'm not sure how much of it would apply to you but it's worth a look.

Take a look at

rpm -qa | grep mplayer

If you installed a 32 bit version via yum or rpm it will show up.

There is another file that lists what you have installed thats not your rpm database but I forgot what it's called. Ask someone running slackware they would know.

BTW if you REALLY want to force it you can override rpm.

Also you could also try compiling from source rpms via rpm?

[clytle374]

Looking at my last post i must sleep.
What i need to know is, does a 32 binary (minus libs, ect) run nativly in a 64bit enviroment (any thing need to be added?)?
second, why does yum(or rpm) complain that libopenal.so.0 is needed by mplayer. I have one in /usr/lib64 i linked it to usr/lib is checking so complete it knows that the file is not the right type(64 vs 32) ? ??
THANKS
Cory

[clytle374]

This is how i got 32 bit mplayer working in 64 bit environment

1)remove mplayer

2)download mplayer mplayer-gui , codecs, codecs-extra, fonts, skins from greyector;
install codecs fonts skinswith --nodeps (doc'ed bug)

3)install mplayer (deps will fail)

4)Try installing 64 bit deps with yum or what ever.

5)try install mplayer again

6)if the same dep still fails download and install the i386 version rpm. (greysector, core, extra)

7)try install mplayer again

8)if new deps fail goto4

after mplayer installs, install mplayer-gui
You might have to repeat the deps process for the gui.

Cory
Better way?, let me know (ignorance is !bliss)

[jdeslip]

Unlike the posts above, I have a lot of good experience with x86_64. The only issue I have is with the flash plugin for firefox - but I have it working through wine anyway.

I got mplayer working almost exactly the same way as described above except I used the freshrpms i386 rpms.

I am loving the 64 bit OS and after installing things many times, it only takes me a few extra minutes compared to an i386 system to get things working.

[Federico]

I just installed yumex using yum and after that I installed mplayer using yumex with --forcei386.
Btw. I used the yum configuration that i found at http://www.fedorafaq.org.

[clytle374]

Originally Posted by Federico

I just installed yumex using yum and after that I installed mplayer using yumex with --forcei386.
Btw. I used the yum configuration that i found at http://www.fedorafaq.org.

Did this allow the use of win32 codecs? that was my problem.

CORY

[Federico]

Yes it did allowed to use the w32codecs. now I'm able to play some wmv and wma files that I couldn't before. To install the w32codecs I also followed the instruction in fedorafaq.org.

just:

su -

yum --enablerepo=atrpms install w32codec