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uzik
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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 1:15 am Post subject: What's a good video player for framebuffer, or even X? |
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I can't get mplayer to work at all. I get signal 11 not matter what I do.
Anyone got any suggestions for a video player that works?
( Is it just me or do other people feel that
displaying an error like 'signal 11' from one of your
programs pretty embarassing? )
I'd like to go with frame buffer, but X desktop would be fine
if it will play video as well as windows does on the same machine.
If I can get linux to do as well as windows for what I want a computer
for I'll ditch my Windoze box |
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Pigeon
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:22 am Post subject: |
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If you're looking for just dvd playback, try xine or ogle.
If you're looking for divx, avi, mpg, etc playback your only real be is getting mplayer to work. What's the error message exactly? |
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uzik
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Signal 11 - invalid use of cpu/ram/fpu
I've seen this bug mentioned A LOT here and on blogs around the net.
It mentions getting new codecs in one place. In another there's a
comment that 'that will be fixed in the next patch'. One guy here
fixed it by editing the ebuild file and removing 'unset USE'. I tried
that too, but still no soap. It builds, just doesn't run.
It might be my framebuffer is messed up. I can get xawtv to run
but fbtv doesn't work. I thought it was working since I could
run X and KDE with framebuffer. Does mplayer work in any
resolution framebuffer?
Thanks for trying to help out! |
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sgaap
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 9:48 am Post subject: |
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If you're looking for just dvd playback, try xine or ogle.
If you're looking for divx, avi, mpg, etc playback your only real be is getting mplayer to work
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Thats nonsense, xine can play most things mplayer can, I only found one thing xine cant do that mplayer can, thats playing (s)vcd bin files, besides that mplayer is less stable (it even locks up the mouse regularly on my dvd/divx tv-out box) and has a less useable gui
Both players have pro's and cons but saying that mplayer is the best player for divx/avi/mpg etc is crap  (and I have used both mplayer and xine a long time now)
just emerge xine-lib and xine-ui and give that a try
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uzik
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="sgaap"] | Quote: |
If you're looking for just dvd playback, try xine or ogle.
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I'm not. I use my windows box to timeshift shows to watch
later.
[quote="sgaap"] | Quote: |
Both players have pro's and cons but saying that mplayer is the best player for divx/avi/mpg etc is crap (and I have used both mplayer and xine a long time now)
just emerge xine-lib and xine-ui and give that a try |
Thanks for the recommendation.
I can't agree with your sig though. I think it's highly inappropriate
for you to even post such a thing. Unless you've got a lot more
education about the subject than I think you have you don't
have the qualifications to make a worthwhile argument anyway.
A lot of people died in the world trade center. Anyone who thought
nothing would be done about it is a fool. |
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Pigeon
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| sgaap wrote: | | Both players have pro's and cons but saying that mplayer is the best player for divx/avi/mpg etc is crap (and I have used both mplayer and xine a long time now) |
I'm glad you've had good experiences with xine, but keep in mind many people (such as myself) haven't.
I use mplayer because it plays everything, uses less resources, has better image quality, and I find the mplayer's CLI interface more intuitive.
Feel free to call my personal opinion whatever you want though. |
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mbobak
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: ogle & mplayer |
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My two bits:
ogle for DVD playback, mplayer for everything else.
-Mark |
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uzik
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Got any suggestions on how to get mplayer to work?
Is there a binary version anywhere? I can compile but it won't play
anything |
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uzik
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 3:00 am Post subject: |
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I tried xine. I downloaded the libs and built the front end.
It won't play video files so I tried a dvd. It just exited and
wrote the following to stdout:
video_out_xshm: tried to get unsupported property 0
xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.
Aborted
It doesn't like my dvd drive.
It plays a vcd acceptably only if the windows is not
enlarged. |
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mabouya
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 4:54 am Post subject: Hum... |
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I want to thank mr. bush and his voters for making the world a dirtier, less democratic and more dangerous place to live..
Yeah... I like this one  It's good to see not everyone is a FoxNews junky...
if(FoxNews==Education) {
StickWithMplayer(void);
ForgiveMeAnyway(please);
}
Will the moderator open a 'Politics' forum?  |
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iwasbiggs
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 7:58 am Post subject: Re: ogle & mplayer |
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| mbobak wrote: | My two bits:
ogle for DVD playback, mplayer for everything else.
-Mark |
Exactly. Ogle has the dvd menu support and chapter selection from a gui that mplayer doesn't have yet.
Anybody able to play videos/dvd's from the framebuffer? I've tried, but not very hard .
Edit: Had to re-emerge mplayer now that I use directfb (as in stalled from the howto here on the forums). Now
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$su
#mplayer -vo directfb file.avi
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works like a charm.
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uzik
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: ogle & mplayer |
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| iwasbiggs wrote: | | mbobak wrote: | My two bits:
ogle for DVD playback, mplayer for everything else.
-Mark |
Anybody able to play videos/dvd's from the framebuffer? I've tried, but not very hard .
Edit: Had to re-emerge mplayer now that I use directfb (as in stalled from the howto here on the forums). Now
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$su
#mplayer -vo directfb file.avi
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works like a charm. |
Thanks! I'll try that. I have directFB on the box now.
I got Xine to work finally. They have a script that checks your
system and tells you what's wrong with it. mplayer just exits
with a numerical error code.
I didn't have dma enabled on my drives, though I had enabled it in the
kernel options. (It's not automatic? What's up with that?) The video driver
I had didn't have yuv as an option so it had to convert from yuv to
whatever it uses internally. Of course that eats cpu time. I went to
http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos and got the ati
drivers for my ati video card. Viola! It works now.
I'll try downloading the source from mplayer.hq instead of emerging
it and see it I can get it to work that way. |
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herbie
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 1:04 pm Post subject: Re: ogle & mplayer |
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| uzik wrote: |
I didn't have dma enabled on my drives, though I had enabled it in the
kernel options. (It's not automatic? What's up with that?) |
dma is enabled by default if you select the "enable dma by default" option in your kernel config.
you should also try different video out methods in mplayer. "mplayer -vo xv <file>" (your gatos drivers should support that) seems to give the best results for me when using X11.
Herbie. |
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