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Old 03-25-2009, 08:30 AM   #1
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from where can I get ffplay


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.
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I have tried --enable-ffplay during configure of ffmpeg but still on running 'ffplay' says command not found.
 
Old 03-25-2009, 08:48 AM   #2
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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.
 
Old 03-25-2009, 04:04 PM   #3
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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.

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Old 03-28-2009, 12:19 AM   #4
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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.'
 
Old 03-28-2009, 04:53 AM   #5
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Either get the fullcheckout tarball or version 0.5 from here:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Here's the way I configured my ffmpeg:
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--prefix=/usr --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
 
Old 04-23-2009, 12:51 AM   #6
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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?
 
Old 04-23-2009, 07:06 AM   #7
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Does it say anything while you configure it with respect to ffplay ?
 
Old 04-24-2009, 07:04 AM   #8
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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.
 
Old 04-24-2009, 07:16 AM   #9
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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>
 
Old 04-26-2009, 08:23 AM   #10
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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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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.
 
Old 04-26-2009, 08:59 AM   #12
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See the documentation:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html
 
  


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