On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 22:30:18 -0500 Walt Frampus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Mplayer from PLf also and I have it working now..sort of..the > video is running slow and I get a font location error lol but I guess > I just need to do some fine tuning with codecs etc. > > Walt The video is running slow as it's not designed for your system. I have said this many times before, as have the grumpy mplayer team, but using pre-compiled binaries isn't the answer. It all depends on what you want it to do. What would you guys like MPlayer to do, what files should it play, should it build mencoder so you can rip your own films? They have pages and pages on man-pages, describing what you need, and how to use it. For example, someone asked about the win32 codecs. These are slow people. They work, yes, but they run slow. The ideal solution, when it comes to mpeg, avi (plain), and DivX is libavcodec.You have to build mplayer with this included in the tarball. It doesn't just appear there if you download the cvs versions of mplayer, you have to get it yourself. ==== to get mplayer ====== cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/mplayer co main ==== to get libavcodec ==== cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg\ login cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co\ ffmpeg/libavcodec Move the downloaded ffmpeg/libavcodec folder into "main" (mlayer's root), and compile from there. I'm not going to explain to you all how to compile, or what options to use. That's what the manual is for ;-) Just please READ the output after doing your "./configure <options". It explains what's going to be added and what not. Hope fully things should go smoothly. I have been using MPlayer for about a year now, no actually longer I believe, and the last 6 months I have compiled it probably 50 times. It works well, if you know what you are doing, or why it's not is normally always documented. Yeah sure it's a lot of reading, but it's not the most popular program (more popular than the Linux kernel) on freshmeat for nothing ;-) I have LM 9.0 (standard) on my 800mh/z and I play all kind of formats, including DVD, and I rip DVD's to DivX perfectly, so it does work. John (Richard Smith), I still can't work out what's wrong on your system. It should work, and if you didn't have certain libraries it should not compile support in for those options, so I'm having trouble finding out what the problem is. I fear that something isn't quite right on your system, but don't know what. Maybe try compiling excluding mencoder? At least for the time being...? There is a flag (can't remember out of my head exactly but it was I believe --disable-mencoder). Well, again just my 5 cents ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." - George H. W. Bush
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