Hanspeter, I stand corrected. the lack of Apple Remote is not fatal. It turns out Mplayer was tripping on an unknown or at least unspecified file type. Mplayer plays the video fine so long as the file name includes the file type. So far, I’ve been able to play both .avi and .mp4 files.
By the way, I’m launching Mplayer from Apple’s terminal.app. It works fine, although the output is verbose. As the movie plays, I get output in the terminal window like this: Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 360540/ 0 5% 8% 0.6% 6 0 Marc > On Jun 19, 2017, at 7:05 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > <f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote: > > On 6/18/17 8:38 PM, Marc Boxerman wrote: >> On a lark, I rebuilt mplayer to see if it checks for Apple Remote. Sure >> enough, it does. Curiously, fink finds Apple Remote present: >> Checking for POSIX select() ... yes >> Checking for audio select() ... no >> Checking for gettimeofday() ... yes >> Checking for clock_gettime() ... no >> Checking for glob() ... yes >> Checking for setenv() ... yes >> Checking for setmode() ... no >> Checking for sys/sysinfo.h ... no >> Checking for Mac OS X Finder Support ... yes >> Checking for Mac OS X Bundle file locations ... yes >> Checking for Apple Remote ... yes >> Checking for pkg-config ... yes > > The runtime failure is not due to the Apple Remote init subroutine. I get > both Apple Remote detection at buildtime (because I'm on OS X), and failure > to init it at runtime (because I have no Apple Remote). > > I have played (on 2014 iMac w/ 10.11.6) an ancient MOV (circa 1996), a brand > new commercial m4v file, and random wmv, mpeg and MOV from in between and > they all run fine. > > ***** > $ mplayer Neutrophil\ Chase.mov > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Fink Project)-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team > 224 audio & 451 video codecs > Can't init Apple Remote. > > Playing Neutrophil Chase.mov. > libavformat version 57.25.100 (internal) > libavformat file format detected. > [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x108c1a910]Protocol name not provided, cannot > determine if input is local or a network protocol, buffers and access > patterns cannot be configured optimally without knowing the protocol > [lavf] stream 0: video (mpeg4), -vid 0 > VIDEO: [MP4V] 320x240 24bpp 15.000 fps 880.5 kbps (107.5 kbyte/s) > ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family > libavcodec version 57.24.102 (internal) > Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) > ========================================================================== > Clip info: > creation_time: 2003-10-21 12:13:41 > Load subtitles in ./ > Audio: no sound > Starting playback... > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... > Opening video filter: [scale] > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. > [swscaler @ 0x108c53250]bicubic scaler, from yuv420p to yuyv422 using MMXEXT > VO: [corevideo] 320x240 => 320x240 Packed YUY2 > [ASPECT] Warning: No suitable new res found! > Fallingback to pbuffer. FBO status is 36054 > > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. > VO: [corevideo] 320x240 => 320x240 Packed YUY2 > <MOVIE FULLY PLAYS> > Exiting... (End of file) > $ > ****** > > The runtime failure is from something else. Are you trying to run this from > Apple's Terminal, an Xterm, something else...? > > Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
