Fedora 12 mplayer problem

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by cheerio158

Cool, I'm learning some good information!

Back to the original procedure, is all I have to do is to copy the patchfile to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES (with all the other mplayer patch files) and edit the spec file accordingly? This way I don't have to tamper with the tarball at all?

Lets call the patch mplayer-mypatch.patch and I took the next number in the list (Patch 15). Below is the snippet from the mplayer.spec file with my suggested changes.

Source1:        http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2
Source10:       mplayer-snapshot.sh
Patch2:         %{name}-config.patch
Patch8:         %{name}-manlinks.patch
Patch10:        %{name}-qcelp.patch
Patch14:        %{name}-nodvdcss.patch
Patch15:        %{name}-mypatch.patch
BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)

You will need to add the patch to the %prep section as well to apply it.

%prep
%if %{svn}
%setup -q -n mplayer-export-%{svnbuild}
%else
%setup -q -n MPlayer-%{version}%{pre}
%endif
%patch2 -p1 -b .config


%patch8 -p1 -b .manlinks
%patch10 -p1 -b .qcelp
%patch14 -p1 -b .nodvdcss
%patch15 -p0 -b .mypatch
doconv() {
    iconv -f $1 -t $2 -o DOCS/man/$3/mplayer.1.utf8 DOCS/man/$3/mplayer.1 && \
    mv DOCS/man/$3/mplayer.1.utf8 DOCS/man/$3/mplayer.1

[cheerio158]

Ok, let's do the enlightened homo sapiens approach (thanks leigh!).

1. Download attached mplayer-spec.patch to your ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory.
2. Download attached mplayer-pulse-hack.patch to your ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory.
3. Perform the following commands below.
   

   $ yumdownloader --source mplayer
   ... output not shown ...
   $ sudo yum-builddep -y mplayer-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12.src.rpm
   ... output not shown ...
   $ rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12.src.rpm
   ... output not shown ...
   $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
   $ patch -N mplayer.spec mplayer-spec.patch
   patching file mplayer.spec
   $ rpmbuild -ba mplayer.spec
   $ cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686
   $ sudo rpm -Uvh --force mplayer-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12.i686.rpm mplayer-gui-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12.i686.rpm
   Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
      1:mplayer                ########################################### [ 50%]
      2:mplayer-gui            ########################################### [100%]

Notes:

1. Careful with the patch files. I had to generate the mplayer-pulse-hack.patch from my "caveman" approach earlier because cutting and pasting from the web page corrupted it (probably removed any tabs).
2. I did this build for a x686 eeepc. However, I noticed that the compiler flag mtune=generic. Ideally, I want this flag to be mtune=atom which is supposedly how all the Fedora 12 (proper) packages are compiled. If somebody knows the simple way to override this in the above process, please advise. (Also be advised that the mplayer folks warn against using exotic compilers and settings.)
3. To be explicit about the version of mplayer that this procedure worked for, I spelled out the entire name. You could probably substitute mplayer*rpm in the above procedure.

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by mgleahy

The suggestion I got on LQO seemed to do the trick for me. It seems that mplayer doesn't play nice with pulse. I had to do a bit of extra config for the alsa driver in the gui conf, but it seems okay now.

In mplayer's config (~/.mplayer/config) try this:

ao=alsa


This seems to be working for me (albeit without thorough testing yet).

This works thank you very much.