Quicktime .mov and MPlayer

aridhol · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject: Quicktime .mov and MPlayer

I'm havingtrouble playing Quicktime movies using Mplayer 0.90rc2-3.2.1

I get audio to work but not video. All I see is a Green screen.

Any thoughs?
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herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

you might have more luck with rc4. Sorenson quicktime is a new addition to mplayer and is more likely to work in the newest version. Also make sure that you have quicktime in your USE when you emerge mplayer.

Herbie

alienhazard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

why oh why does apple not port quicktime to linux? we should ask them kindly to do so, and if they refuse we can castrate them :twisted:

DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

how we can castrate (an) apple ?
But they use Free Software, maybe they can purpose quicktime....

pilla · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:34 am Post subject:

Please keep on topic. If you want to discuss Apple policy for QuickTime, please post a new thread on "Off the Wall".

Just to keep on topic, I used to have seg faults when playing quicktime until I changed my kernel configuration for the memory (I think it was CONFIG_3GB=true)
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aridhol · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject:

I juste emerged mplayer-cvs and I still have the same problem...
I'll give it a shot with the memory BB suggested

In case you see anything:

pilla · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject:

See this thread for more details.
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TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

I installed mplayer_rc4 using a very basic eBuild that wrote and I also put these codecs in /usr/lib/win32: http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2

All svq3 video works great.

herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

Jowilly · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 319

The lates win32codecs ebuild has been updated with qt6dlls.

Since I emerged mplayer rc4 and win32codecs all the quicktime trailers from apple.com work great.

aridhol · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject:

I'll try the qt6dlls when I get back to work in the morning. As for rc4 to be inte portage tree I don't see it. I synced portage and still only saw rc2 which I have installed. I also tried installing from cvs that didn't work either...

As I said, I'll let you know in the morning

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herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

rc4 is in the portage tree, but it is not marked as stable yet. To emerge rc4, do:

aridhol · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:55 am Post subject:

Darn my luck, got called out to another location so no testing today... Not until monday

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aridhol · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject:

Hm... rc4 depends on xvid and so tries to download xvidcore-0.9.1.tar.bz2 but it's not on any mirrors or even ibiblio, and files.xvid.org doesn't even reply to a pung, let alone a downloadrequest...

Anybody happen to have that file and are willing to share it?
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akerboom · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 3

Actually, rc4 depends on xvidcore-0.9.0.tar.bz2. When you emerged rc4 using the '~x86' keyword, you also unmasked xvidcore-0.9.1.tar.bz2. Consequently, portage was trying to emerge that version, which is not available as you noted Once the emerge fails just 'emerge xvid'. This will use xvdicore-0.9.0. Then 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge mplayer'.

aridhol · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:06 am Post subject:

Thanks, I'm doing it now...
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aridhol · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:36 am Post subject:

Ok, so I emerged xvid, I emerged mplayer rc4, I unpacked qtdlls into /usr/lib/win32/ and I played the two towers... didn't work...

Now what do I try?
MPG doesn't work either... no video. It just turns into a sluggish green.
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herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

maybe try a different video out method. How about

aridhol · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:26 am Post subject:

Now I get picture too, and good sound, but the screen ain't zooming. I can see TTT trailer in 2x4cm... what setting do I have to use to get it to get bigger... fullscreen just turns my screen black around the miniature video...
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herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

ok, I think the easiest way to do that would be to get xv working, what drivers are you using for your graphics card and what graphics card are you using for that matter?

aridhol · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:48 am Post subject:

From MSIs website:

herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

OK, I have no experience with that chipset and cannot tell you if the XVideo extension is supported. Have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log and search for XVideo, does the extension load ok? If not maybe try playing around with some of the driver options, they are listed in the trident man page. There may also be alternative drivers available for this chipset, I just don't know I'm afraid so have a search and see what you can find.

The reason that fullscreen does not work with vo x11 is that driver does not support hardware scaling, to enable software scaling use -zoom parameter (this can be fine tuned with -sws options, read mplayer man page for more details). Note that this will have a big hit on performance if displayed in fullscreen.

hope some of that helps,
Herbie.

aridhol · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:44 am Post subject:

I checked the log and it loaded ok.

-zoom did ave a huge impact on performance

Couldn't watch... to horrible...

I don't see what options would work playing around with though. Most are for Cyber-cards which I don't have...

Options:

herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

Just a thought, what screen depth are you running at? if running at depth 24, try switching to depth 16. (change this in screen section of XF86Config)

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