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apt-get, mplayer, ancient mozilla - WTF??
Well, this seems very goofy. I reformatted my hard drive on this machine the other day and reinstalled a fresh coating of red hat 8. I installed everything. (no, that's not the goofy part. ;) )
Today I deleted all references to the defaulted mozilla 1.0.1 that comes with RH8. That included deleting everything that came up with 'rpm -qa | grep mozilla' and the '.mozilla' directories and almost everything that had the string 'mozilla' in it, except for a few .png files. Clean as a whistle. I felt so refreshed. Then I installed mozilla-1.4 with the mozilla-installer. Then I downloaded and installed apt-get and synaptic. Cool, this is looking promising. Then I decided to install mplayer via synaptic. Once I said proceed, I noticed 3 of the 'dependencies' it started downloading and installing included some mozilla-stuffgoeshere-1.0.2-2.8.0 packages. I thought that was strange. When it was all done, my attempt to install mplayer also installed that ancient version of mozilla. How goofy is that? (Note: This is my first real foray into apt-get land.) |
So, now I install the mplayerplug-in rpm, and where does it install. It installs to mozilla-1.0.2, not 1-4.
I know that I can read up on 4 or 5 documents and search through a bunch of threads and create links and move files around and stand on one leg while balancing my red hat 8 bible on my head to make this all work, but it just seems goofy that mplayer couldn't figure out that I had a newer version of mozilla installed and then stupidly installed that older version. regards... |
I think it's not mplayer that could not see you have a newer Mozilla. It's apt-get and synaptic that not always have the latest stuff out. So probably they installed what was available instead. Perhaps, if you compile mplayer yourself, you could specify that a new mozilla is installed and specify it's path. Although, if this is possible (I'm just guessing) it won't be at their (mplayer) docs, as most of the stuff ain't there :D
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Thanks... Dang, how did I get distracted back over here anyway? I was happily working on an LFS project on my slackware box. :D Oh, yeah, I was just trying to view a couple of test .avi's I put on my web page. I'll just use the mozilla on my w2k machine. That just works. |
hehe :) I love apt-get and synaptic. I think it's the best thing to do if you want to stick with rpm's. Nothing beats a very well compile program though :) Slack4ever :D
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If you put this entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list file
rpm http://apt.sw.be redhat/9/en/i386 dag you will get the very latest mozilla-1.4-2.dag.rh90 rpm installed (and a lot of other very hot and fresh rpms). The problem is not apt-get and synaptic, is the apt repositories that you are telling it that it can use. |
Thanks Corin.
That made a difference. So, how about mplayer? I have a couple of test videos I created with my web cam on my w2k macine. When I try to play them with mplayer, all I get is sound. No visual. The videos play ok with Windows media player from Mozilla on my W2K machine. I installed mozilla-mplayer and mplayer via synaptic from that apt.sw.be repository. Apparently there is some other codec file or something I need to load from some place else, eh? I'll take a look at that mplayerhq.hu site. Thanks... |
Ok, that was from clicking on a link in a web page.
When I run it from the command line, I get this: (stand back) [bsl1@localhost download]$ mplayer video7.avi Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/share/locale MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /home/bsl1/.mplayer/config Reading /home/bsl1/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/bsl1/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/bsl1/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/bsl1/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device Can't init input joystick 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. Playing video7.avi AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [IV50] 320x240 24bpp 30.14 fps 741.1 kbps (90.5 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, 8 bit (0x8), ratio: 22050->22050 (176.4 kbit) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== open: No such file or directory vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid open: No such file or directory vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: ir50_32.dll, /usr/lib/win32/ir50_32.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/ir50_32.dll Warning: DS_Filter() could not open DirectShow DLL. (DLL=ir50_32.dll, r=0x140) Failed to create DirectShow filter ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec ir50_32.dll. Maybe you forget to upgrade your win32 codecs?? It's time to download the new package from: ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.tar.bz2! VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [vfwex] Win32/VfWex video codecs Loading codec DLL: 'ir50_32.dll' Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: ir50_32.dll, /usr/lib/win32/ir50_32.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/ir50_32.dll Can't open library ir50_32.dll ICOpen failed! unknown codec / wrong parameters? VDecoder init failed :( *** Try to upgrade /home/bsl1/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf *** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html! Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30355649. ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/8bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/8bit... AF_pre: af format: 1 bps, 1 ch, 22050 hz, little endian unsigned int AF_pre: 22050Hz 1ch Unsigned 8-bit AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch Unsigned 8-bit (1 bps) Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/1ch/8bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/8bit... Video: no video Starting playback... A: 4.7 0.1% 0% Exiting... (End of file) [bsl1@localhost download]$ Dang, I just wanted to watch a simple avi... Well, off to find some documentation to figure out how to not worry about remote controls and joysticks and how to get wincodecs and DirectShow stuff... :rolleyes: I would think that mplayer would give you at least just the basic capability to view an avi file. |
Well, finally.
I looked at the mplayer documentation at the mplayerhq.hu site, and discovered that you need a phD in codec-ology to understand the stuff I found there, I did a mind numbing search here and never found a definite answer to what I needed to do, but did discover that it looked like I needed to move the files in the win32codecs directory, created by the tar command, to a /usr/lib/win32 directory that I had to manually create. That did it. mplayer installation SUCKS!!!! Can I get an AMEN !?!? :D |
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