Hi,

I'm currently working on a complete doc to turn Slackware 10.0 into a
bells-and-whistles desktop. I spent a few days reading the doc about
mplayer, trying to compile it with different options and everything. There
was much trial and error involved in the process. I finally fixed on these
results:

a) Command-line MPlayer:

../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dvdread --disable-mpdvdkit
--confdir=/etc/mplayer --disable-gui --disable-menu --disable-libfame
--disable-runtime-cpudetection --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32
--enable-alsa --disable-arts.

b) GUI-style MPlayer:

Same but only with --enable-gui --enable-menu.

Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the documentation for
MPlayer. Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options? Maybe
some better/other ones to recommend? Someone on the list maybe configures
"the" perfect MPlayer on his or her Slack? Then some setup and install
tutorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a question
on the MPlayer mailing list, and if you happen not to be a developer, you
are suddenly facing something like twenty reincarnations of R. Margarino,
only with considerably less urbane manners/


Of course I did this after installing every possible codec I could grab.
Win32, Real, Quicktime, XAnim, DivX, you name it. (Public confession bit:
one of these rare (!) moments where I truly miss SETUP.EXED)

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

On 2004-09-18, Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
utorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a question

> Of course I did this after installing every possible codec I could grab.
> Win32, Real, Quicktime, XAnim, DivX, you name it. (Public confession bit:
> one of these rare (!) moments where I truly miss SETUP.EXED)

So, you're writing this tutorial, right? Howzabout doing the install with
checkinstall and putting the package on linuxpackages.net and saving us all
the pain?

nb

notbob wrote:

> So, you're writing this tutorial, right?**Howzabout*doing*the*install*with
> checkinstall and putting the package on linuxpackages.net and saving us
> all the pain?**

The reason for that is simple. There's a myriad of compile options for
MPlayer that won't work for everyone. It's one of those programs that you
have to compile for yourself if you want it to work right. This is true
especially for older hardware as mine. Guess you won't be very happy with
my package when it's optimized for pentium-mmx. And then, you would have to
have all the codecs installed. If there's only one missing, then you have a
bunch of error messages.

On the other hand, if you read french currently, you can always read my
tutorial and then figure things out for yourselfD Only this will still
take some time, as there are some unresolved issues still. All I can
promise is: before the end of the year.

Cheers,

Niki
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:15:58 +0200, mickey@mouse.com wrote:

> The reason for that is simple. There's a myriad of compile options for
> MPlayer that won't work for everyone. It's one of those programs that you
> have to compile for yourself if you want it to work right. This is true

I build a package of mplayer from cvs and link it against some other
dvd libraries.

If anybody's interested, you can download my build scripts from
http://www.interlude.org.uk/unix/sla...vdstuff.tar.gz

You need:
slacktrack (see www.interlude.org.uk/unix/slackware) to build the packages;
slackware/xap/xine package installed;
to download the source - check over 'source.download' scripts
then run them;
to build the dvd_libs package first (scripts inside the tar ball);

To build the package, run ./trackbuild.<foo>

--
Stuart Winter
www.interlude.org.uk & www.armedslack.org

Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a complete doc to turn Slackware 10.0
> into a bells-and-whistles desktop. I spent a few days reading the
> doc about mplayer, trying to compile it with different options
> and everything. There was much trial and error involved in the
> process. I finally fixed on these results:

Who cares about mplayer?

> Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the
> documentation for MPlayer.

That's right. And yet you expect everyone else to do it for you.
Perhaps you've kissed enough ass and sought enough approval that
people who would normally tell you to STFW and RTFM might actually
answer you.

> Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options?

I think you'll find that nobody here really gives a damn about
mplayer. If you want to watch movies you should run BEOS or
windoze. There is no reason to run linux to watch movies and since
it does such a lousy job of running movies you are best advised to
steer clear of it.

If you are writing the documentation then why are you asking for
help?

cordially, as always,

rm

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2004-09-18, Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
> utorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a question
>
>> Of course I did this after installing every possible codec I could grab.
>> Win32, Real, Quicktime, XAnim, DivX, you name it. (Public confession bit:
>> one of these rare (!) moments where I truly miss SETUP.EXED)
>
> So, you're writing this tutorial, right? Howzabout doing the
> install with checkinstall and putting the package on
> linuxpackages.net and saving us all the pain?

You are kidding, right? Why would you install anything she
compiled on your computer?

cordially, as always,

rm

Kiki Novak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a complete doc to turn Slackware 10.0 into a
> bells-and-whistles desktop. I spent a few days reading the doc about
> mplayer, trying to compile it with different options and everything. There
> was much trial and error involved in the process. I finally fixed on these
> results:
>
> a) Command-line MPlayer:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dvdread --disable-mpdvdkit
> --confdir=/etc/mplayer

Any reason for this?

> --disable-gui --disable-menu

I think these are the default.

> --disable-libfame

I suppose not many people will need that.

> --disable-runtime-cpudetection

Again, this is the default. You'll want --enable-runtime-cpudetection if
you're making a generic packages e.g. for linuxpackages.net.

> --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32

Again, this is the default.

> --enable-alsa

Very good idea

> --disable-arts.

Why? Many people want to be able to use mplayer while using kde.
>
>
> b) GUI-style MPlayer:
>
> Same but only with --enable-gui --enable-menu.
>
> Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the documentation
> for MPlayer. Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options?
> Maybe some better/other ones to recommend? Someone on the list maybe
> configures "the" perfect MPlayer on his or her Slack?

I just enable everything. Makes it a little bloated, possibly, but means I'm
not missing anything.
Favorite fun option: --enable-caca.

> Then some setup and
> install tutorial would be a truly nice thing.

What's to setup and install? ./configure;make;make install. And man mplayer
is very helpful with any setup that does need doing.
>
> Of course I did this after installing every possible codec I could grab.
> Win32, Real, Quicktime, XAnim, DivX, you name it. (Public confession bit:
> one of these rare (!) moments where I truly miss SETUP.EXED)
>
A setup.exe version of MPlayer would probably be about 50mb.

Kiki Novak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a complete doc to turn Slackware 10.0 into a
> bells-and-whistles desktop.

But wouldn't that be annoying, all those bells and whistles creating a lot
of noise?

> I spent a few days reading the doc about
> mplayer, trying to compile it with different options and everything. There
> was much trial and error involved in the process. I finally fixed on these
> results:
>
> a) Command-line MPlayer:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dvdread --disable-mpdvdkit
> --confdir=/etc/mplayer --disable-gui --disable-menu --disable-libfame
> --disable-runtime-cpudetection --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32
> --enable-alsa --disable-arts.
>
> b) GUI-style MPlayer:
>
> Same but only with --enable-gui --enable-menu.
>
> Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the documentation
> for MPlayer. Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options?
> Maybe some better/other ones to recommend?

Well yesterday I was trying to play DVDs, compiled Ogle and ALL the
recommended dependencies, but I still could not play The Matrix:
Revolutions.

> Someone on the list maybe
> configures "the" perfect MPlayer on his or her Slack?

I thought MPlayer used to be on the Slackware mirrors under /extra, but I
guess not any more.

> Then some setup and
> install tutorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a
> question on the MPlayer mailing list, and if you happen not to be a
> developer, you are suddenly facing something like twenty reincarnations of
> R. Margarino, only with considerably less urbane manners/
>
>
> Of course I did this after installing every possible codec I could grab.
> Win32, Real, Quicktime, XAnim, DivX, you name it. (Public confession bit:
> one of these rare (!) moments where I truly miss SETUP.EXED)

True, once in a while it's nice to have point and click installs, but then
again you can almost do that with Mandrake.

> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs

--
BOFH Excuse #337: the butane lighter causes the pincushioning

NeoSadist wrote:

> Well yesterday I was trying to play DVDs, compiled Ogle and ALL the
> recommended dependencies, but I still could not play The Matrix:
> Revolutions.

Few hours later. Finally I compiled MPlayer AND Ogle allright. Ogle for DVDs
and MPlayer for everything else, since it doesn't handle DVD navigation.

If you speak french, there are some excellent tutorials on
http://www.trustonme.net. They helped me a lot.

Cheers,

Niki
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a complete doc to turn Slackware 10.0 into a
> bells-and-whistles desktop.

Where would you publish it? Is there a central site for Slack Tuts?
Because a friend of mine have a couple of tuts on installing hardware,
but no place to publish them to yet.

> Few things suck whole sunny afternoons away as reading the documentation for
> MPlayer. Now my question. Anyone has a comment about these options? Maybe
> some better/other ones to recommend? Someone on the list maybe configures
> "the" perfect MPlayer on his or her Slack? Then some setup and install
> tutorial would be a truly nice thing. I don't know why, but ask a question
> on the MPlayer mailing list, and if you happen not to be a developer, you
> are suddenly facing something like twenty reincarnations of R. Margarino,
> only with considerably less urbane manners/

All right, running the risk of sounding like a troll, why use mplayer at
all?
I've used it a lot, compiled it lotsa times for missing options, used
precompiled versions, tried to get anything regarding fonts working
properly... And then discovered xine. xine supports DVD Nav out of the
box and will use any codec that's installed for use with mplayer. It
even plays MotionJPEG-movies from my digicam correctly, where mplayer
will play them at double speed, etc. etc.

Without wanting to discredit your project, just consider xine. Maybe
write an extra section for it

~Mik

--
Top-Bottom Programming never gets you where you wanted to go.
Bottom-Top Programming gets you where you never wanted to go.

while not life:
sleep((sleep.normal_time - 5h)); eat(mode=fast); pc_mainloop()