Compiling MPlayer.
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MPlayer allows you to play DVDs, watch video clips, and even listen to MP3s. MPlayer is probably the best movie player there is. Certainly, the best I know of.
An earlier version of this page (for mplayer-1.0pre8) can be found [url removed].
If you follow the instructions given here you will be able to watch almost all video formats, watch DVD's, watch streaming video, rip DVD's to MPEG-4 avi files, and preform many other useful video functions. MPlayer plays just about everything. And, if you so wish, you can add a graphical user interface.
To get a list of the formats supported, see
this page. Here are some:
Video codecs: 3ivx, Cinepak, DivX, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, XviD
Audio codecs: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, MP2, MP3, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA
Container formats: 3gp, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV, MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia
So, lets get on with the compilation:
Make sure that you have the following programs and packages installed.
gcc libgcc glibc glibc-devel glib2 glib2-devel gcc-c++ libstdc++ libstdc++-devel
Make sure you are the root user, then make a directory in which to work:
mkdir /mplayer
Download the following files, saving them in the directory /mplayer/
MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
all-20071007.tar.bz2
font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 all from
www.mplayerhq.hu
live555-latest.tar.gz from
www.live555.com (currently live.2007.12.27.tar.gz)
lame-3.97.tar.gz from
lame.sourceforge.net
twolame-0.3.10.tar.gz from
sourceforge.net/projects/twolame
libsndfile-1.0.17.tar.gz from
www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile
cd /mplayer/
The sourceforge links were once deliberately sabotaged (by HTTP redirect) so you can try going direct, with:
wget http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...me-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...-0.3.10.tar.gz
The following commands unpackage the archives:
for a in *.tar.*; do tar -xf $a; done
Even though most compilations install into /usr/local/, some Red Hat derived distributions do not include /usr/local/lib in the default library loader path. This is just another example of Red Hat making it a little harder for you to compile your own programs. To fix this problem, add /usr/local/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf, with the command:
echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH no longer seems to be necessary, but it doesn't hurt:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/
So, lets proceed:
rm -fr /usr/local/lib/{live,win32} (remove some old stuff)
cd /mplayer/live
./genMakefiles linux
make (nothing happens if the C++ libraries are not installed)
cd /mplayer; mv /mplayer/live /usr/local/lib/
mv /mplayer/all-20071007 /usr/local/lib/win32
The latest version of the codecs does not come with DivXc32f.dll, so if you have a need for it, you will have to copy it from a previous edition. If you do not have a need for it, just ignore this step:
cp DivXc32f.dll /usr/local/lib/win32
The default configurations, of all the programs below, install their libraries in /usr/local/lib/.
cd /mplayer/libsndfile-1.0.17
./configure
make
make install
If you have any queries about the configuration, use the following command:
./configure --help (viewing the help)
Now, do the same thing with the other packages:
cd /mplayer/lame-3.97
./configure --with-fileio=sndfile
This will use the libsndfile libraries. You get read/write ability to these file formats:
RAW
Microsoft WAV
SGI/Apple AIFF/AIFC
Sun/DEC/NeXT AU/SND
Paris Audio File PAF
Commodore Amiga IFF/SVX
Sphere Nist WAV
IRCAM SF
Creative VOC
Sound forge W64
GNU Octave 2.0 MAT4 & 2.1 MAT5
Portable Voice Format PVF
Fasttracker 2 XI
HMM Tool Kit HTK
Apple CAF
See the local
documentation accompanying the source code.
Drop the option, if you wish to use lame's io routines. You get
RAW &
WAV.
There are problems getting lame's mp3 frame analyzer, mp3x, working. Click
here, to see how.
make
make install
cd /mplayer/twolame-0.3.10
./configure
make
make install
Usually ldconfig is run to update newly added libraries, but the install scripts for lame and twolame don't bother, so you have to do it:
ldconfig
cd /mplayer/MPlayer-1.0rc2
./configure
./configure, provides a summary of the optional drivers that it will enable, eg,
Enabled optional drivers:
-- Input: ftp network tv-v4l2 tv-v4l tv live555 mpdvdkit2 vcd dvb
-- Codecs: qtx libavcodec real xanim dshow/dmo win32 faad2(internal) libmpeg2 liba52 mp3lib tremor(internal) libmad twolame
-- Audio output: alsa jack esd arts oss nas mpegpes(dvb)
-- Video output: xvidix cvidix md5sum pnm jpeg png mpegpes(dvb) aa opengl dga xv x11 xover tga
-- Audio filters: ladspa
Disabled optional drivers:
-- Input: vstream tv-bsdbt848 cdda dvdread smb
-- Codecs: opendivx x264 xvid libdv amr_wb amr_nb faac musepack libdts libtheora speex toolame liblzo gif
-- Audio output: sgi sun openal polyp dxr2 dsound win32 sdl
-- Video output: winvidix bl zr zr2 dxr3 dxr2 directx sdl vesa gif89a fbdev svga caca ggi xmga mga xvmc directfb tdfx_vid s3fb tdfxfb 3dfx
-- Audio filters:
Check to see if you have all the drivers you want. If you want one of the "disabled optional drivers" then you will have to download and install additional software, or, as in the case of the
Audio/Video output option
sdl, you need to install the
sdl development package included with your distribution.
You should also take a look at the configure.log:
less configure.log
Check that ./configure found the lame and twolame libraries.
make
make install
Now install the global font for sub-titles:
cp /mplayer/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-18-iso-8859-1/* /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/
You can also install a local font preference. Exit the root account, to your usual user account, then execute the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/.mplayer/font/
cp /mplayer/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-18-iso-8859-1/* ~/.mplayer/font/
The above process, has given you two binaries, one called
mplayer, to play movies/videos, and the other, called
mencoder, to encode movies/videos. For more information concerning the playing and recording of video, see the local
documentation and
FAQ accompanying the source code.
You play videos/movies with commands like:
mplayer name.wmv (watch the video with filename name.wmv)
mplayer WishYouWereHere.mp3 (listen to Pink Floyd)
mplayer mms://address.of.site/movie.wmv (watch a "Microsoft Media Server" stream)
mplayer rtsp://address.of.site/movie.wmv (watch a RTSP stream)
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc (watch a DVD starting at chapter one)
mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://site/movie.rm (download movie.rm to stream.dump)
The
-dvd-device /dev/hdc in the last command, is not necessary, if your DVD has been properly setup. The last command also assumes the movie starts at chapter one. If it starts at chapter 3, you will need dvd://3, etc. RTSP stands for "Real Time Streaming Protocol."
If I get time, I will write a tutorial, or two, on how to use
mencoder.
A good page on how to rip a DVD to an MPEG-4 avi file is:
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In the mean time, here are a few simple examples:
1)
mencoder mms://address.of.site/movie.wmv -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi
2)
mencoder rtsp://address.of.site/movie.wmv -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi
3)
mencoder movie.wmv -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=750:vhq -oac mp3lame -o output.avi
4)
mencoder dvd://1 -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=48:cbr:vol=6 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
5)
mencoder movie.wmv -ovc copy -ofps 24000/1001 -oac mp3lame -of mpeg -o output.mpg
The above commands do the following (in order):
1) save an MMS video stream to the file output.avi (AVI is the default format).
2) save an RTSP video stream to the file output.avi.
3) encode WMV video as MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.
4) rip the German audio stream from a DVD and save it as an "MP3 video" labeled by frame number.
5) change the WMV file from AVI format to MPEG format with MP3 audio.
Sometimes, in order to convert an audio file to an MP3, you must first convert it to some huge WAV file. This WAV file can be many gigabytes in size. If you are short on filespace, you can create a
named pipe to pass on the WAV file, as it is created. This way, you never need to write the whole file. In the following example,
mplayer will write the WAV file to the pipe and
lame will read it from the pipe and convert it to an MP3.
First, grab a file that you wish to convert to an MP3.
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile music.ra rtsp://site/music.ra
Without the -dumpfile tag, the download would be saved as stream.dump.
Create a named pipe called pipe.wav
mkfifo pipe.wav
Now execute the following command. It will hang, as it is waiting for the data to flow through the pipe.
lame pipe.wav music.mp3 (add your favorite lame options (including ID3 tags))
In a
different terminal, execute the following command, to get the data flowing.
mplayer -ao pcm:file=pipe.wav music.ra
You can also execute the last two commands in reversed order, but it doesn't illustrate what is going on as clearly. This whole idea of named pipes, is also very useful in scripts.
So, we are able to convert music.ra, to music.mp3, even when space is limited.
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