Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Patriot]

Hmmm .....

I've been and will continue to focus on making mplayer binaries configured primarily with internal codec support (ie. static ffmpeg). If you're looking for a skinny mplayer with external ffmpeg then please look for MU's or tempestuous's pets. If you're looking for a chubby mplayer with internal ffmpeg libs then you're at the right place.

I've been using mplayer regularly and I am very pleased with its performance. It happily plays all my avi, wmv, matroska & flv files without issues. There have been like a "gazillion" changes to mplayer internals since r29409 and honestly, I haven't upgraded from r29409 as it haven't disappointed me yet, not once.

Very recently (ie. 24 July 2010), a new development got me excited. A newly developed native VP8 decoder was added to ffmpeg and as I've expected, it was updated into mplayer in no time. I'm pleased to report that mplayer r31792 contains this VP8 decoder and have been tested to work with my vp8/webM samples.

The mplayer pets offered contains mplayer, mencoder, a dvd-skin & basic configs. They were built on puppy 4.12 and tested up-to puppy 4.31.

[elraven]

well ,its working in my no bling 4.2 v2 . it plays my avi files nice and clear , sound is great too. But, i'm getting an error popup . it wants me to supply the following path " ~/mplayer/subfont.ttf "". like i said it opens and plays just fine. this error has me scratching my head though. well, hope this helps. it's a great program
regards elraven

[raffy]

Thanks - will be testing this in g_pup (4.1.2).

[ttuuxxx]

[ttuuxxx]

Hey patriot Thats cool 2 media players in 2 days, I get on those every once and a while, Like when I compiled text editors, before you knew it I had like 5 of them in a thread post on the forum, lol
Any chances of VLC 9. Thats the killer media player, killer because its the best one for resources and killer because its so complex to compile.
The wxgtk version is better than QT for resources, you can still enable it in 9.8 and also if you do try it make sure you enable root, when they first came out with 9 series I had to manually enable root in C, but now they just have it as a part of the config script, much nicer way of doing it
Anyways great to see another Mplayer, great work.
ttuuxxx

[magerlab]

@tuuuxxx : i'm waiting for a vlc 0.9.8 pet
is it possible to build it against wxgtk -unicode libs?

[ttuuxxx]

[aragon]

@elraven

please look here

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/fonts-osd.html

for a simple solution.

aragon

[01micko]

Hi Patriot

I installed your mplayer on my fast box running my 'spup' build from woof. I had a missing lib 'libGL.so.0' so downloaded 'mesa' from the Slackware repo and installed and stripped it with woof's stripper script. Works just fine.

I've tried other metohods on my old box but ... oh dear! Looks like I'll give your pet a spin on it see how we go.

Thanks

Mick

[aragon]

ok self-test.

symlink is there and ok, but error-message is there ?!?

if you delete the symlinks and make the same new, it works!

aragon

[Patriot]

Hmmm ...

@Mick
Thank you for your test reports. Please let me know how it goes on your further tests.

@aragon
Yes, it seems the included subfont symlink is broken somewhat. I'll fix it and add in a subfont selector in future update.

@Everyone
Should anyone else getting a subfont error msg, try the mplayer subfont selector script attached above. Unzip somewhere and open a terminal in that folder to run it, like this:

# ./set-mfont

The script looks for .TTF in a preset location and lets you choose a subfont. If I'm not mistaken the subfont can also be selected from within (g)mplayer.

Anyone who gave this a try, please post a bit of results. I'm keen to know how it handles your media formats as my own media files collection is rather limited.

Rgds

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Patriot from what micko said about openGL, you aren't going to make that a dependency are you? Thats always been a difficult task to do on puppy 4 series, not so bad on 3 series/slackware like mick's using. We've had Mplayers like the one on the repo that didn't need openGL, funny they never fixed that version, it was basically a .desktop file that had an typo error.
ttuuxxx

[Patriot]

Hmmm ...

[aragon]

hi patriot,

did you also compile mencoder in this 'session'?

aragon

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