matroska and mplayer 1.0 don't play nice ... :\

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

I'm trying to get mplayer to play some matroska encoded files, and so far I've had no luck.

I emerged mplayer 1.0 like so:

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

It doesn't look like the official mplayer ebuild has any real support like the mplayer-cvs ebuild did/does.

It doesn't have any mention of dependencies on libebml or libmatroska, nor does there seem to be any USE flag for matroska either.

The ./configure script attempts to compile in support for Matroska if you have the correct libs, but mine look to be too old, as judging from this configure.log output:

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Well, I used the --fetchonly flag, as you described, and ./configure saw that I have matroska installed happily on my system (post 0.5) ... but when I recompiled mplayer, it still crashes horribly when I try to open an .mkv

Any other ideas? Anyone else? :cry:

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

I'm still at a loss here, folks.

Anyone have any idea how to play matroska (.mkv) video files under Gentoo?

b-llwyd · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 9:23 am Post subject:

I don't know what your problem might be...matroska support works fine here. I did, however, compile and install libebml/libmatroska manually, prior to emerging the latest mplayer. To be sure to get the latest versions of the libs.

borh · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject:

Just be sure to have the latest (stable) libebml and libmatroska. I have libebml-0.5.1 and libmatroska-0.5.0 (bumped from the portage ebuilds). Playback of any matroska file is smooth in both stable mplayer and mplayer-cvs.
What is the error given by mplayer when it crashes (run mplayer from the terminal and paste the output/error here so we can locate the problem)?

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Thanks for the help, guys.

I'm running the latest versions of libebml and libmatroska available through the portage tree with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" ... 20030622 is the version label on them. When I emerged mplayer, it checked and found matroska support, and under the optional drivers, it did list matroska. I'm running mplayer-1.0_pre1, again from the gentoo portage tree.

I've tried mplayer-cvs, but haven't managed to get it to compile. I've also tried downloading the source and compiling it manually ... in which case I get the same error that I'm getting now. I'll cut and paste:

borh · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject:

re: JipStyle

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Borh: I think we're on the right track .. thanks! Except ... I don't have either of those directories. :\ I checked make.conf, and I haven't defined PORTDIR_OVERLAY ... it says that the default is undefined.

So ... I don't really know what to change to get rid of these ebuilds. You're right ... I did use that ebuild in that thread ... so how do I fix it? :oops:

Thanks very much for your help.

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Never mind ... I just did an emerge rsync, and the packages are now coming up with the correct names.

I'm now emerging libebml and libmatroska versions 0.5 ... and if that doesn't work, I'll reemerge mplayer with the new versions.

Cross your fingers!!

And thanks again.

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Bah. Libebml emerged just fine .. but libmatroska crashed with an error.

borh · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject:

I just reemerged libmatroska and found no problems. Which version of gcc are you using? Also, since it seems (I may be wrong) that you just emerge rsync'd, have you tried upgrading any dependencies of libebml/libmatroska?

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

I'm using gcc 3.2.2

How do I determine dependencies for the two libraries? Shouldn't that be checked when I do:

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Bump?

borh · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject:

Maybe try to first totally unmerge all related stuff:

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Hmm, even after unmerging libebml and libmatroska and remerging them, I still get the same error Jip experiences while compiling.

CFLAGS='-march=athlon -O3 -pipe'
GCC 3.2.3

But I doubt it's a CFLAGS thing, as the same error occurs even when I null out my CFLAGS.

borh · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:16 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm using gcc-3.3.1-r1, but I doubt that has anything to do with it, since I have compiled other versions just fine with 3.2.3 before. The only real dependency to libebml/libmatroska is glibc + gcc. Maybe an "# env-update" will help

I'm running out of ideas here. Also, what is the line before the error you get? As in

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Well, I'm actually using -r1 as well, so that's not the problem.

Here's a snippet from the whole emerge until the error (it only succesfully compiles one file, so might as well):

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

My CFLAGS are identical to superjaded: CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe"

Wait .. I have -mcpu where he has -march ... important?

Edit: I tried ' emerge -c libebml libmatroska ' and recompiled and got the same error.

Edit2: I looked up the difference between mcpu and march, and it seems that mcpu is the more conservative of the two, since it also comptability with other architectures in the same family of cpus

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Final bump before I give up ..

.. any more ideas?

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Welp, I got it working.

First I upgraded local ebuilds of libebml and libmatroska to 0.6.0 and 0.5.2 respectively; simply by copying the ones in /usr/portage/media-libs into /usr/local/portage/media-libs as the correct version.

For whatever reason, the combination of these two versions compiled fine together, but I was back to mplayer crashing whenever I attempted to play a mkv.

After that, I took a look at the mplayer-cvs ebuild from BMG that hadn't been working for a while and see if I could modify the ebuild to work again with the current CVS and files.

Well, after about ten minutes I got bored of going through the ebuild I just did a manual CVS checkout to see if upgrading mplayer would even cause Matroska to work again. And it did.

I think there may be some buggieness to it since I haven't done a "make install," but overall it seems to play mkv back fine.

borh · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject:

Here is an updated ebuild of mplayer-cvs. Note that you have to have the matroska USE flag set. I hope it still works (last tried a few weeks ago) - anyway it's newer then the one on BMG.
JipStyle: try the same thing as superjaded did, seems like it might help to use the cvs version.

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Hmm.. actually, it looks like the ebuild is still br0ked. The non-ttf fonts are no longer *.zip's (look at the mplayer-1.0pre1 ebuild in the stable portage) but bzipped tarballs.

--enable-dvdnav doesn't exist as a ./configure option either, and the default skin has changed as well.

I'll see if I can get it working.

EDIT: Here we go.

JipStyle · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Vancouver, BC

Hi guys .. thank you both very much for your help ... I now have mplayer working happily with matroska ...

I downloaded the source for the latest CVS commits of libebml and libmatroska, compiled and installed them, and then downloaded mplayer pre1 from their website. It was a little more effort than just emerging them, but everything worked and it taught me a bit about CVS.

Thanks again for your help guys ... this kind of help is the reason I've been able to stick to learning linux and gentoo without resorting to the dreaded M$ ...