Codecs for Xine or Mplayer [Not Solved]

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Hi, I came across some video files that I couldn't play in neither Xine nor Mplayer. I open them and mplayer crashes, but xine gives me this error:

magnesium · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject:

don't you need to use 32bit versions of xine and mplayer to use 32 bit versions of CODECs?

I'm pretty sure I played divx movies in my AMD64 version of MPlayer without errors, but cannot confirm as I'm in the process of rebuilding my machnie. You may need to use the "latest and greatest" version of MPlayer however...

Oh, and make sure your use flags contain all the video extensions you need.
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Are you sure I have to downgrade mplayer? I really dont like using x86 on an amd64 box.

magnesium · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject:

Like I said, I can't confirm that I was able to run DivX .avi files in AMD64 MPlayer because I'm rebuilding my system I'm not in front of my computer now and it failed to reboot correctly (forgot to unmount boot and it's complaining about needing root password for maintenance mode).

I know that firefox can't work in 64 bit mode with 32 bit plugins nor can xorg work with 32 bit drivers. I don't see why mplayer or xine would be any different.
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Does anyone else know if there is a way to get important codecs like divX for xine, (I unmerged mplayer, was very disappointed with it).

I want to keep my computer 100% amd64 pure, and I'd also like to know how to get a xine plug-in for opera. And how to get it to work in place of WMP and QT.

Right now Xine cant play .mpeg some .avi .asf. All I could play was an mpg, and a few .avi files.

I emerged mpeg-lib libddmpeg libmpeg2 libmpeg3.

magnesium · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject:

I should be able to check more with mplayer tonight on an AMD64 pure box. Who knows, I may even get around to testing some other video viewers. I was really impressed with how well mplayer worked from the console, even though the mplayer plugin had issues within mozilla firefox.

What are your use flags? please give all of them as discovered through "emerge info".

Thanks,
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Heres what it showed me:

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

Is magnesium the only one who can help?

m707 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

I have no experiances concerning the 64bit, so probably no solution for you,
but divx4linux was never a software someone wants on his box, IMHO.

You should try to get ffmpeg handling your stream as win*32*condecs will
probably be no choice at your box.
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

m707 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

ffmpeg should be default, at least using mplayer without installing
different codecs like divx4linux.

Have a close look at mplayers USE flags and avoid any flag that could
prevent mplayer using ffmpeg as default. However, if ffmpeg will not
support your fileformat, see

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2348017#2348017

you are lost

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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

I don't use mplayer, it kept on crashing. I use xine.

I don't know what flags prevent ffmpeg though, here are my flags:

m707 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject:

divx4linux is deprecated, IMHO. But I dunno about all flags, nor do I know about any dependencies, which will probably add flags. I meant:

curtis119 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

Moved from Multimedia. You'll get more help in the amd64 forum.
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RiverRat · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Colorado

The solution is to use a 32 bit version of mplayer so that it can use the 32 bit codecs. Look here:
http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/
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crazycat · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:42 am Post subject:

Welcome to the club of flashless and codecless people. Just search for mplayer and 32bit and u will be enlightened.

hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

I have been using ~amd64 versions of mplayer for a while now and I can play avi and most other video formats. Although I am currently having problems with WMV videos. These use a lot of CPU but I also have a low end video card (Matrox G450) and others with higher end cards like NVidia 5xxx and 6xxx cards are reporting lower levels of CPU usage. There are also beta versions of xvid that has had amd64 optimized assembly code added. You will need xvid-1.1.0_beta2 or later to get this. I also have the mplayer plug-in working in my 64 bit firefox.

So the bottom line is that there is still work that needs to happen to get this working as well as I would like but it is 300% better than it was a month ago and it appears that this is being actively worked on as I am writing this. I expect things will be getting better over the next few weeks and months.

infirit · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

I have been using mplayer32-bin for 32bit windows codecs. See http://www.sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/ for details on how to install..
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crazycat · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject:

nice piece of work @infirit, ill add it to the faq is u dont mind.

infirit · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:

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hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

Yesterday I found a thread that said that there is now a version of win32codecs that is masked ~amd64. I checked and sure enough there it was. So I installed it and it worked. So I am now able to play WMV files with my 64 bit mplayer for the first time.

Also about 2 days ago emerge world installed a new version of xine-lib 1.0.1-r1 that was a huge improvement over the prior versions. I can now watch full screen videos with xine with all of the quality stuff turned up to it's highest levels and only use 30% to 40% CPU. Before with the quality stuff turned down to it's lowest levels I would hit 100% CPU watching full screen videos with xine.

You need all of the latest stuff (~amd64) for this to work. I also found that if I went into the config files for xine and mplayer and hand tuned them that I could get things working somewhat better than it did out of the box.

This stuff is changing very rapidly right now so I expect that next week I will be running new stuff that works even better. I don't think this is working as good as the 32 bit stuff but it is getting closer and is to the point for those not yet running the 32 bit stuff that they should get all the latest 64 bit stuff and get it a go.