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I am using openSUSE 10.3.I successfully installed ffmpeg from tarball.I came to know that ffplay can use ffmpeg codecs to play audio & video files but did not find any link to tarball of ffplay.
NOTE
I have tried --enable-ffplay during configure of ffmpeg but still on running 'ffplay' says command not found.
ffplay is built by default, so there's no need to pass an option to it when configuring. Maybe it wasn't installed properly, maybe it's not in your $PATH.
A common location for ffplay is '/usr/bin/ffplay'. To find your ffplay just run 'which ffplay'. If it's in your $PATH, then it will show up. Otherwise you need to run a 'make install' from your unpacked and built tarball directory.
I found ffmpeg & ffserver in /usr/local/bin but not ffplay.
Has anybody used ffplay then please provide the link of tarball and any other thing to keep in mind excluding './configure','make' and 'make install.'
ASKING EVERYBODY
I unpacked ffmpeg-checkout-2009-03-03 in /home/lxuser
then ran following command as normal user
$./configure --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libxvid
$make
Then as superuser
make install
I got ffmpeg,ffserver in /usr/local/bin & ffmvforce,fftest,ffset,ffcfstress in /usr/bin but no ffplay.
Where I am going wrong?
To H_TeXMeX_H,
Actually everyone says that ffplay is enabled by default & if you want to disable its building then there is an option called --disable-ffplay.
TO EVERYBODY
Is there anybody who has used ffplay if YES then please tell the version of ffmpeg tarball which you used and what commands you gave to compile & run it.
Maybe you lack some library needed by ffplay. I know that it needs sdl, for example, which I think the rest of ffmpeg doesn't need for anything. Just a wild guess.
Code:
$ grep SDL\.h *
configure: if check_lib2 SDL.h SDL_Init; then
configure:#include <SDL.h>
ffplay.c:#include <SDL.h>
as i92guboj told,
i installed sdl-devel of 29MB from openSUSE 10.3 dvd and then general installation of ffmpeg also gave ffplay command to play video files.
QUESTION
I have noticed that few videos in mplayer & ffplay appear black & white and little colour.Does anyone know why?
QUESTION
Can anybody guide me to link which explains how to use FFMPEG,MENCODER to cut clips from video & convert to other format though I read doc which gave info but their is no man page for ffmpeg & illustration with example would be useful.
as i92guboj told,
i installed sdl-devel of 29MB from openSUSE 10.3 dvd and then general installation of ffmpeg also gave ffplay command to play video files.
QUESTION
I have noticed that few videos in mplayer & ffplay appear black & white and little colour.Does anyone know why?
QUESTION
Can anybody guide me to link which explains how to use FFMPEG,MENCODER to cut clips from video & convert to other format though I read doc which gave info but their is no man page for ffmpeg & illustration with example would be useful.
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