Media player for Firefox problem on PCLinuxOS

robertpratt · 12-05-2005, 11:13 PM

Irrelevant, I know, but I like to hear the Onion Radio news from their website. Is theer a way of setting Firefox on PCLINUXOS to play? It attempts to play the stream, but gives up after about 10 seconds.

Robert

Emmanuel_uk · 12-06-2005, 02:16 AM

just use mplayer instead with the relevant codecs.
Or some radio applications (streamcast, shoutcast? I cannot remember
the linux client name, see sourceforge)

davecs · 12-06-2005, 04:24 PM

I opened a terminal and tried the following:

mplayer http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43218

and got this response:

MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.

85 audio & 196 video codecs
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.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Playing http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43218.
Resolving www.theonion.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.theonion.com[66.216.104.235]:80 ...
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: www.theonion.com
Cache fill: 0.22% (18475 bytes) Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
XMMS: found plugin: libwav.so (Wave Player 1.2.10)
XMMS: found plugin: libcdaudio.so (CD Audio Player 1.2.10)
XMMS: found plugin: libtonegen.so (Tone Generator 1.2.10)
Segmentation fault

This suggests to me that PCLinuxOS does not have avisynth.dll which is the problem.

Emmanuel_uk · 12-07-2005, 01:26 AM

good. We are making progress

>>Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load
What does this tell you?

Google "Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load" mplayer linux
And try to read a few threads here and there to figure the solution.

Big hint: go to mplayer hq and download the win32 codecs / libraries
(or use rpm packages from plf if available)

Ok, I am being fascetious today. But I mean to help you to learn on the way.
I suggest, only if you have spare time, you get acquainted with
the mplayer doc so you can learn about why some codecs are not
by default with the distro.

Once you get mplayer working, so that the stream can be identified,
you can reconsider whether you want to use something else
(xmms, or some radio programme, or some firefox plug-in if any).

Hope this helps

davecs · 12-07-2005, 10:07 AM

I have done an internet search, and loads of distros have the problem with avisynth.dll. I downloaded a self-executing archive which should install it into Windows but I could not extract it in Linux. It is not in MPlayer's "full" dll archive either.

I tested MPlayer on other sites to ensure it was not broken, and it worked just fine, no segfaults, so I am pretty sure that it is the absence of this dll that is the problem.

I have Win98SE, I will boot into it at some point and see if I can extract this dll and install it into /usr/lib, and see what happens. If this works, I will report here and also advertise the fix at PCLinuxOS website.

Dave

Emmanuel_uk · 12-07-2005, 01:13 PM

did you visit
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html
did you try
Windows essential all codecs without free alternative, for Windows 20050412 9.5M
Windows all all codecs for Windows (Win32 .dll) 20050412 12M

I am learning with you here, about that very one dll, but I would have thought it is in the mplayer package

davecs · 12-09-2005, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emmanuel_uk

did you visit
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html
did you try
Windows essential all codecs without free alternative, for Windows 20050412 9.5M
Windows all all codecs for Windows (Win32 .dll) 20050412 12M

I am learning with you here, about that very one dll, but I would have thought it is in the mplayer package

Sorry I am at work in my lunchbreak on a Windoze terminal, I have not had time to even switch on my Home (PCLinuxOS) Computer for 2 days.

As far as the exe file is concerned it does appear to be free software, because I got it from Sourceforge, which I find surprising that I cannot get the dll directly. My other concern is that the archive may be not be compatible with Win98SE. I will definitely test it this weekend!

If there are no licensing issues with the dll, I will suggest that it is included with PCLOS on the live CD which would put a stop to this problem (unless of course it causes others ...).

davecs · 12-09-2005, 06:43 AM

Oh I forgot to mention: the dll was not in the MPlayer codes, and if it were, I don't suppose that I would have found this problem repeated for a number of distros!

davecs · 12-09-2005, 05:58 PM

What a pain!

I installed the avisynth.exe file to Winblows, then went back into Linux, as well as avisynth.dll, I then got error messages for AVIFIL32.dll, DevIL.dll, GDI32.dll as I copied each one to /usr/lib/win32/ adjusting the capitalisation to match the error messages. Having added all four, I no longer got the "missing dll" error message, but I still got the ****ing Segfault!!! I tried setting Kaffeine to the url, no luck.

Question is, has anyone got this to play on another distro?

Emmanuel_uk · 12-16-2005, 03:34 PM

I double-clicked on http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43218 It played of the box with gxine 0.4.3. t is actually playing http://www.theonion.com/content/file...i%20whip_T.mp3 $ xine http://www.theonion.com/content/file...i%20whip_T.mp3 This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3. Saying that maplyer does not want to play if with default options. I can usually ply mp3 all right.

Code:

 mplayer -cache 128 -v http://www.theonion.com/content/files/radionews/05-206%20reddi%20whip_T.mp3 Connecting to server www.theonion.com[66.216.104.235]:80 ...
 --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [HTTP/1.0] http minor version: [0] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [1022] Fields: 0 - Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:00 GMT 1 - Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/4.3.3 mod_perl/1.26 2 - Last-Modified: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:18:39 GMT 3 - ETag: "b7d43-1680b2-4394847f" 4 - Accept-Ranges: bytes 5 - Content-Length: 1474738 6 - Content-Type: audio/mpeg 7 - Age: 7268 8 - X-Cache: HIT from squid1.theonion.com 9 - Connection: close --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- Content-Type: [audio/mpeg] Content-Length: [1474738] Cache size set to 128 KBytes Connected to server: www.theonion.com CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:0 eof:0 Cache fill: 6.25% (8192 bytes) vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..