How can I watch video without gui in mplayer

sumeet inani · 02-16-2010, 10:34 PM

Hi
i am using RHEL 5.3
I cannot subscribe to RHEL repo because I don't have registration number but people say cent OS is similiar.
I tried to install mplayer from tarball (i have copied essential codecs files to /usr/local/lib/codecs)with
./configure --enable-gui
I got error
Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation.
In ubuntu I used to do "#apt-get install xorg-dev" but it seems I cannot find any such alternative in repository though I am subscribed to atrpms,rpmfusion,epel.
if I run just
./configure
for mplayer then everything goes fine (including make & make install) but when I play video using mplayer I get sound but no window displaying the frame.
Actually my totem did not play mkv video even after gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg , gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad , ugly installation(also libmatroska and libmatroska-devel).
Another thing you might say do "#yum install mplayer" but I get
--> Missing Dependency: libXvMC.so.1 is needed by package 4:mplayer-1.0-72_snap20091120.el5.i386 (atrpms)
Error: Missing Dependency: libXvMC.so.1 is needed by package 4:mplayer-1.0-72_snap20091120.el5.i386 (atrpms)
One more thing-i am using totem version is 2.16.7.
what do you suggest ?
(1)You can tell me viewing video without gui in mplayer.
(2)resolving dependency in mplayer installation using yum
(3)What totem needs to play mkv ?
Thank you for your patience in reading this.
i have tried to be technical & explanatory for your convenience.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 02-16-2010, 10:54 PM

You should get yourself a copy of CentOS5.4 rather than RHEL if you are not paying for the subscription. That will give you the power to use yum. You can use mplayer to watch videos on shell but you need X to be running for that most probably. I remember doing that on F7. But that was definitely with X server running.

sumeet inani · 02-16-2010, 11:28 PM

I thought gui in OS is present on ctrl+alt+f7.

Quote:

You can use mplayer to watch videos on shell

Can you explain more ?

worm5252 · 02-16-2010, 11:34 PM

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/commandline.html

sumeet inani · 02-16-2010, 11:57 PM

Okay I ran
$mplayer -vo help
fbdev Framebuffer Device
fbdev2 Framebuffer Device
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

I tried all of the above but I get

DVB card number must be between 1 and 4
Video: no video

except in yuv4mpeg where I get stream.yuv file and tga,pnm,md5sum where I get list of files.
Is there a hardware requirement for fbdev or cvidix.My CPU is powerful enough 2GB DDR2 RAM,3GHz core2duo ?

kenosando · 02-17-2010, 04:29 PM

You need the package mplayer-nogui

sumeet inani · 02-18-2010, 12:16 AM

There is 'mplayer-nogui' in ubuntu
but in RHEL 5.3 Non official repos

Code:

#yum list available | grep -i mplay
gnome-mplayer.i386                           0.9.8-7.el5                atrpms  
mplayer.i386                                 4:1.0-72_snap20091120.el5  atrpms  
mplayer-doc.i386                             1.0-0.101.20080903svn.el5.1
mplayer-docs.i386                            1.0-0.41.svn20090711.el5.rf
mplayer-fonts.noarch                         4:1.0-7.at                 atrpms  
mplayer-gui.i386                             1.0-0.101.20080903svn.el5.1
mplayer-skins.noarch                         4:1.0-16                   atrpms  
mplayerplug-in.i386                          3.55-35.el5                atrpms  
smplayer.i386                                0.6.8-4.el5                atrpms  
xmms-mplayer.i386                            0.5-4.el5                  atrpms  
#

What do you say ?

shpenat · 02-18-2010, 05:18 AM

I am not familiar with RHEL like Linux but I can explain little bit about Mplayer.

Default mplayer is command line oriented video player which uses available graphical libraries to actually display the video. So in extreme case you dont need X11 at all and can use AAlib to watch video entirely in console http://oreilly.com/pub/h/4441

Most of the graphical libraries are usually already presented in system and does not pose much a problem.

But most people are not happy about using command line to start their videos. So Mplayer have available graphical front end (GUI). But to actually compile mplayer with gui, you need to have dev packages of GTK which in turn needs dev package of X11.

So you have two options. Either find Mplayer in some repository and install it. Or compile it yourself but then you need all dev packages. Some hints what you need can be found here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...a/mplayer.html bBut be aware that it expect all packages to be build from source codes and hence have all dev parts already installed.

sumeet inani · 02-19-2010, 12:09 AM

i installed aalib from tarball then mplayer & got aa as one of video output options.
This ascii art is interesting.

(1)How can I use vidix (video interface for unix) to watch video as it is available in my vo for mplayer.('mplayer -vo vidix File' did not help)

shpenat · 02-19-2010, 03:04 PM

you need to specify -vo cvidix or -vo xvidix according to where you want to rum your video (console, X). But to do so you also need to run mplayer as root or SUID which mean security risk. Alternatively you can use kernel module.

More info here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/vidix.html

sumeet inani · 02-22-2010, 04:00 AM

I tried
#mplayer -vo cvidix File

vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
[VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver.
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
Video: no video

#mplayer -v help

Code:

MPlayer SVN-r29963-snapshot-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 13
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         E8400  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 10)
extended cpuid-level: 8
extended cache-info: 402686016
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 CMOV
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/abhiluv/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
Configuration: 
CommandLine: '-v' 'option'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/abhiluv/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/abhiluv/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('option.conf') -> '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/option.conf'
Playing option.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/abhiluv/.mplayer/sub/'
File not found: 'option'
Failed to open option.
Exiting... (End of file)

What can I conclude ?

shpenat · 02-23-2010, 03:00 AM

you can conclude that you ran

Code:

mplayer -v option

not

Code:

mplayer -v help

as you indicated above.

What you probably wanted to run was

Code:

mplayer -vo help

which will give list of available video outputs.

Or run

Code:

mplayer -v -vo cvidix File

for more information

I am not much familiar with vidix driver so i cant provide much informations. It's configuration depends highly on what graphic card you have (as indicated in link i posted previously).

i92guboj · 02-23-2010, 03:12 AM

For mplayer to run you need a working video driver, in a text-only environment that'd be ascii art, via aalib, luck seeing a movie using that though.

Mplayer has a fair number of video output drivers available, that range from those depending on X (x11, xvideo, opengl and a few others) to those depending on some kind of framebuffer device (that can be through sdl, directfb, 3dfx and probably many others like svgalib, not sure). So, the first thing you should check is whether you have enabled the framebuffer or you are using pure text mode. In the first case you might have some hope, in the second one, ascii art is all you'll get no matter how hard you try, until you configure a proper framebuffer.

In any case, you are having greater problem with your distro than just getting mplayer to run. You should really check the suggestions above and use a distro that you can handle properly without using all kind of external repos and packages that you have no idea whether they work or not.

sumeet inani · 02-23-2010, 10:13 PM

My CPU is core2duo with 256MB video RAM on motherboard but no graphic card in any slot.
how can I configure frame buffer ?

i92guboj · 02-24-2010, 02:07 AM

Check this, it might be already enabled. Port the output for this command:

Code:

ls -l /dev/fb*