HOWTO: MPlayer

[madzzoni]

UPDATE: I finally installed mplayerplug-in via apt-get and accept that it want too install mplayer-custom too.
... and now it all works perfect.
I can watch streaming video and listen to varius net-radio stations with mplayerplug-in and the gmplayer stil works for video.

[Quest-Master]

Ah, I didn't know you could do that madzzoni. I just compiled my mplayer-plugin. Works fabulously as well as this shell script.

[ackbar]

Hello all,
The HOWTO is great, no problems installing mplayer... wonderful! Thanks a lot.
However, I have a problem when trying to play a .mkv file in mplayer.
The video works fine, but in the terminal I get this message for audio:

Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0X4134504D
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Which I proceeded to do, but as its a pretty specific error (and I'm not knowledgeable about codecs and such) I couldn't help myself there.

Google tells me (from the codec status table at mplayerhq.hu):

FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder
0x6134706D
0x4134504D
libfaad2

From some redhat help page I got the hint to get the libfaad2 audio decoder from Synaptic (which I then did... yeah so I'm slow oh also I found the info on AAC and faad2 in the codecs.html file as well when I looked the second time).

So I installed libfaad2, and it should now work, right? hopefully...
well.. nope. I get the same error.

So do I need to compile mplayer again, or does libfaad2 not give me all of faad2, or am I just really dumb?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers.

Edit: btw its anime that I'm trying to watch, and subs don't appear to be working either. Is .mkv just not a supported filetype?

[ow50]

Edit: btw its anime that I'm trying to watch, and subs don't appear to be working either. Is .mkv just not a supported filetype?

Matroska is fully supported, assuming you have the required codecs installed. To cycle through the subtitle tracks avalable on the matroska file, press "b" or "j" (assuming you haven't customized the keyboard shortcuts). The keyboard shortcuts are listed in the mplayer man pages.

[apoc]

You can download extra skins.

Untar or unzip them. Then copy them (the whole folders and their contents) to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/

When you start MPlayer, right click, "Skin browser", select your new skin, ok.

I have got that, and some extre skins in there, but next time I start mplayer it reverts back to the default skin.. if its impossible so save the selected skin how do I make another one default?

Btw, great howto, thanks alot

[wallijonn]

Ackbar,

In your case you may wish to download & install the "all" codecs package instead of the "essential" codecs package. It have what you are looking for.

apoc,
You'd probably have to do it the hard way and copy the skin to the default folder. I've not had that problem with my skin. Is there a "set to default" button? (I'm on W2KP right now so I can't fire up Ubuntu).

[clparker]

FATAL ERROR!
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

It wont play any video, nothing.

[Perfect Storm]

Did Mplayer show some error doing the compiling?

Try reinstall the codecs.

[clparker]

No, it just does that right away but if i switch drivers it will play just about anything, however it wont remember to use that driver after i close and reopen Mplayer

[Perfect Storm]

Which version of Mplayer do you use?

You can change the stuff in mplayer.conf

I think it's in /home/<username>/.mplayer

I can't be more specific because I don't have mplayer installed at the moment


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