I'm ruinning Fedora Core 4 on an AMD Athlon 64.

I've installed mplayer using yum and it seems to work ok but with some problems.

1. Quicktime *.mov files will play but with no sound
2. some *.wmv files will play sound but no video

Output for Quicktime problem:
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Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale

MPlayer 1.0pre7-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 8, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2


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
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 ST_Nemesis2.mov.
QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
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MOV track #0: 361 chunks, 2167 samples
MOV: Found unknown movie atom SMI (21)!
Image size: 400 x 224 (24 bpp)
Display size: 400 x 224
Fourcc: SVQ3 Codec: 'Sorenson Video 3'
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MOV track #1: 181 chunks, 0 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100
Audio extra header: len=92 fcc=0x77617665
MOV: Found unknown audio atom Fourcc: QDM2
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MOV: longest streams: A: #1 (181 samples) V: #0 (2167 samples)
VIDEO: [SVQ3] 400x224 24bpp 24.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name: Star Trek: Nemesis
copyright: \uffff2002 Paramount Pictures
comments: QuickTime 5 version by RDW, Apple
==========================================================================
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x324D4451.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
vo_xvmc: X-Video extension 2.2
vo_xvmc: No X-Video MotionCompensation Extension on :0.0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffsvq3] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg Sorenson Video v3 (SVQ3))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 400 x 224 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 400x224 => 400x224 Planar YV12
Broken pipe9/159 4% 0% 0.0% 0 0
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I figured it was a codec problem so I downloaded all the codec packages from the mplayer site and put them in /usr/local/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib64/codecs. I've also soft linked /usr/lib/win32 to both of these but niether way worked.

Anyone have any luck dealing with this?

you can email me directly if you wish steve_a_hart@yahoo.com

Thanks!!!

steve7575

If Mplayer is compiled for AMD 64 it won't work

64 bit Mplayer can't use WIN32 codecs, notice "32", and there are no 64 bit codecs yet

Perhaps there's a way of installing 32 bit Mplayer, not sure about Fedora but this option exists in
Gentoo

Pete

Thanks Pete,

The funny thing is that I'm actually able to play some wmv files just fine. Quicktime is the real problem. The more I read about it, I think the 64-bit FC4 is just too unstable and unsupported. I'm thinking that I might just say screw it and load FC4 i386 and be done with it. I know mplayer and all the firefox plugins work great with that version of the OS.

Still undecided.........

I have this problem too.
I have found out a few things, though it still doesn't work for me...
I first installed mplayer with yum too, but I've had the same problems. Then I tried compiling it from source http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html
which results in the message that I won't be able to play some files cause I use 64bit architecture after the command ./configure. Make and make install don't work.
I found out how to to use 32bit emulation to install mplayer on 64bit architecture so you are supposed to be able to view those files:

Q:How can I build a 32 bit MPlayer on a 64 bit Athlon?
A:Try the following configure options:
./configure --target=athlon_xp --cc="gcc -m32" --as="as --32" --with-extralibdir=/usr/lib

Then the message that i won't be able to play those files cause of my architecture doesn't appear anymore after the command ./config, but the make and make install commands still won't work...

I'm getting closer
I'll keep you informed

hello
I have FC4 x86_64. I have the 32 bit versions of gxine and mplayer installed. I Installed most of the files for mplayer from http://freshrpms.net/packages/

I also found this (below) but have not tried it.
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/

The gxine stuff I got from http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

I installed the rpm files, which saved me the trouble of having to compile.
The only file which I had to compile was gxine.
You will need some i386-devel libraries compile 32 bit programs in x86_64 platform. Just follow the errors given by the compiler and correct them as they come up.
Assuming you have all the necessary libraries installed.

export CC="gcc -m32"
export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R6/lib'
./configure
make
make install

Forgot to mention that for embedding mplayer you need a 32 bit browser (mozilla/firedox). There is no advantage of using the 64 bit browser at this point since there is no flash or jre support for it.

Thanks all....I had some motherboard problems so after resolving those I ened up installing the 32bit version of FC4. The 64bit version just doesn't have the software support I need yet. Thanks for all the great advice!

Thanks jlo_sandog. I'm running FC4 64 too. It is so fast and is more stable that Windows XP 32 or 64 bit was on the AMD 64. I am do have several other computers to handle the things 64 bit can not do yet. At least Fedora is ahead of Windows in 64 bit. I had a much worse time with Windows 64 bit.