2 problems, mplayer gui and installing ATI driver

Doel

2006-03-02, 07:21 PM PST

Hello all.

I've recently installed FC4 on my computer, and I'm a new user of linux so I don't exactly know how everything works.

I tried downloading the mplayer source, modifying it and installing it on my PC according to the installation instructions available on www.mplayerhq.hu but gor some reason I cannot do the --enable-gui command. the terminal tells me that the command is not found.
I tried installing the player without the gui, and it works, to some extent. can anyone elaborate as to why I am not able to enable gui? i have gtk+ and gtk 2.0 installed on the system so there shouldn't be any missing files problems.

the other problem is even the clc player has some complications, whenever I play the file i have to set the video output to x11 so that the file plays, and i cannot view files in fullscreen if i set the vo to x11. if i try playing a file without specifying the vo, the system tells me that there's no support for Xvideo for my card.
I'm using an ATI RADEON X850PE, and I installed ati-fglrx although in xorg.conf I have

Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "VESA driver (generic)"

should i change xorg.conf to make the ati-fglrx work? and how can I enable gui for mplayer?

thanks in advance and sorry for writing all the gory details of my problem

Doel

buddha

2006-03-02, 08:16 PM PST

--enable-gui is an argument to the configure script

did you run the configure script with the --enable-gui option?

Here's how I usually run the configure script for an mplayer build,

./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu

Also, last time I checked, mplayer did not explicitly support gcc 4 which is the default on FC4. Which is why I use gcc32 to build mplayer from source

assuming you ran the configure script successfully and make and make install, to get the GUI from the command line you run gmplayer instead of mplayer

Doel

2006-03-02, 08:55 PM PST

[QUOTE=buddha]--enable-gui is an argument to the configure script

did you run the configure script with the --enable-gui option?

Here's how I usually run the configure script for an mplayer build,

./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu

Also, last time I checked, mplayer did not explicitly support gcc 4 which is the default on FC4. Which is why I use gcc32 to build mplayer from source

assuming you ran the configure script successfully and make and make install, to get the GUI from the command line you run gmplayer instead of mplayer[/QUOTE]

thanks so much for your reply.

I did run it with ./configure --enable-gui but the terminal told me that the comman is unknown (i wouldn't run --enable-gui alone then complain about it not working :p )

and also about the compiler issue, when i download the comressed file, i get the warning message that tells me to downgrade, but when i download it using

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co -P main

the compilation and configuration work normally (i had to download ffmpeg documents seperatly and add them later on)

also, about the downgrading of the compiler, how do I do that?

Doel

mjmwired

2006-03-02, 08:59 PM PST

Hi. Why didn't you install using RPM?

You are welcome to try my guide. It explains the compiler and any other issues you might have had.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html

Doel

2006-03-02, 09:14 PM PST

[QUOTE=mjmwired]Hi. Why didn't you install using RPM?

You are welcome to try my guide. It explains the compiler and any other issues you might have had.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html[/QUOTE]

I did try that before going for the source (sources are intimidating to me .... i always feel something will go wrong) but after i installed the rpm using

rpm -Uvh <file>

the rpm would tell me that mplayer was installed but i couldn't use it, so i went to apt and uninstalled at and then tried the source.

thank you so much for the guide, I'll see what I can do with it

Doel

Doel

2006-03-02, 10:08 PM PST

while trying to install divx i got this error

ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so.0' to `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so': Operation not permitted
chown: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so.0': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so.0': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0' to `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so': Operation not permitted
chown: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0': No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't link /usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so.0 to libdivxencore.so/sbin/ldconfig: Can't link /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0 to libdivxdecore.so

any ideas? my thoughts were changing the install.sh file but i didn't do it, also i got these messages when working in terminal as root

Doel

2006-03-03, 12:15 AM PST

okay ... some people are just plain annoying, but please bear with me for a moment

first I'd like to thank mjmwired .... thank you I finally installed mplayer and both the gui and clc work just fine

there's one problem though, whenever I try playing a video file, the program tells me:

error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

the default value is "xv", i tried changing it to x11, gl, and gl2 it work fine at normal resolution, but when in full screen mode, the performance drops substantially to 10 fps or less (estimate) and for xvidix, it doesn't work at all, just the same as xv

any ideas as to why this happens? it it because of improper or non installation of the video card driver? I'm using a RADEON X850 Platinum edition, so normally it would be very capable or rendering video with openGL acceleration

thanks in advance,
Doel

Lluisanunez

2006-03-03, 01:14 AM PST

I use Videolan client (http://www.videolan.org), there is an rpm for FC4, no need to worry about gui, codecs or anything. It plays ALL sort of video and audio formats ;)

Doel

2006-03-03, 02:41 AM PST

just solved my video card issue, thanks all

Lluisanunez: thanks for the program, although it doesn't support oog audio and matroska :)

Doel

Lluisanunez

2006-03-03, 04:45 AM PST

In Videolan, check "Advanced" in Preferences menu. You'll see the options for Vorbis Ogg audio format and matroska streaming protocol.