[mythtv-users] Playing transcoded mpeg4 streams (or even regular .nuv) in mplayer

[Tom Felker]

On Saturday 09 July 2005 09:05 am, Shaul Kedem wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am trying to play a transcoded stream in mplayer and I get:
> MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird 1110 MHz (Family: 6,
> Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> 3DNow supported but disabled
> 3DNowExt supported but disabled
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2
>
> Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
> Font /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (155 chars)
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (/dev/rtc should be
> readable by the user.)
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file
> or directory
> Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
> 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...
>
> Playing 1011_20050708223000_20050709014000.nuv.
> XMMS: found plugin: libwav.so (Wave Player 1.2.8)
> XMMS: found plugin: libmikmod.so (MikMod Player 1.2.8)
> XMMS: found plugin: libcdaudio.so (CD Audio Player 1.2.8)
> XMMS: found plugin: libtonegen.so (Tone Generator 1.2.8)
> XMMS: found plugin: libvorbis.so (Ogg Vorbis Player 1.2.8)
> XMMS: found plugin: libxmms-flac.so (Reference FLAC Player v1.1.0)
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libvorbis.so
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libtonegen.so
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libcdaudio.so
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmikmod.so
> XMMS: Closing plugin /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libwav.so
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
>
>
> -------------------
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Shaul

I think you have to do something special to build an MPlayer with mythtv 
support, and it isn't that great.  (No idea why, it's open source!).  On 
Gentoo you have to have USE=mythtv when emerging mplayer, and this probably 
equates to a ./configure option.

-- 
Tom Felker, <tcfelker at mtco.com>
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