MPlayer playback issues
 

Hi,

I have installed MPlayer on my system built on a LFS platform, but I am having trouble with the playback of video files (except .mkv files) and all audio files.

I downloaded the binary codec packages and have untarred the package (as suggested in the README) under /usr/local/lib/codecs.

Is there anything else that I am missing, that may affect the playback?

Also can someone tell me how to play a file using CLI. At the moment I am opening the file with Mplayer and it works (only .mkv files)

Equip yourself with a large beer & read 'man mplayer'

Usual thing in an X terminal

mplayer -alang en /path/to/file

This presumes you have installed a plethora of stuff - LibThis, LibThat, SDL, flac, ffmpeg, and a host of half assed other programs. You should be thoroughly sick installing the stuff. Otherwise, when you configure mplayer, it spits you out a list of it's capabilities
and that's what you get. If you type 'make' on that. . .

The solution is to install the dependencies (That's hell) and then recompile mplayer.

Hm. The beer is missing from the man page and the guide of "how to build mplayer". Otherwise you can try VLC, I prefer it.

I did say. The beer is on you. But make it a large one. Mplayer's man page is similar size to that of gcc or bash, but more interesting.

VLCplayer won't save him. He's doing penance - linux from scratch. He will still need dependencies. It's probably a better player, but I never bothered to learn it's keyboard options because mplayer rarely gave me any trouble.