Hi!
I am looking for a console based movie player similar to mplayer. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and facing problems in compiling mplayer on my system.
I googled for an alternative solution but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Sarfaraz.
I am looking for a console based movie player similar to mplayer. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and facing problems in compiling mplayer on my system.
mplayer can play on the console with either aalib (ASCII art), directfb or SVGA (frambuffers).
However, this might require you to compile mplayer from scratch and the dependencies which might not be that easy on Ubuntu.
-- Anant
However, this might require you to compile mplayer from scratch and the dependencies which might not be that easy on Ubuntu.
-- Anant
When I try to compile mplayer from source on my system, it exits with an error message saying that the version of gcc installed on the system is not supported by mplayer. And hence, the search for an alternative.
Regards, Sarfaraz.
Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
However, this might require you to compile mplayer from scratch and the dependencies which might not be that easy on Ubuntu.
-- Anant
When I try to compile mplayer from source on my system, it exits with an error message saying that the version of gcc installed on the system is not supported by mplayer. And hence, the search for an alternative.
What about using .deb packages and dpkg?
Regards,
Rony.
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 00:53 +0530, Rony wrote:
Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
However, this might require you to compile mplayer from scratch and the dependencies which might not be that easy on Ubuntu.
-- Anant
When I try to compile mplayer from source on my system, it exits with an error message saying that the version of gcc installed on the system is not supported by mplayer. And hence, the search for an alternative.
What about using .deb packages and dpkg?
Regards,
Rony.
Went that route, came upon a river called "dependency hell", drowned in it!
Regards, Sarfaraz.
Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 00:53 +0530, Rony wrote:
Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
However, this might require you to compile mplayer from scratch and the dependencies which might not be that easy on Ubuntu.
-- Anant
When I try to compile mplayer from source on my system, it exits with an error message saying that the version of gcc installed on the system is not supported by mplayer. And hence, the search for an alternative.
What about using .deb packages and dpkg?
Went that route, came upon a river called "dependency hell", drowned in it!
Since you get a package broken error in apt, there could be a possibility that your package downloaded into your /var/cache/apt/archives is broken and since it exists, a new download will not take place. So manually identify the list of deb packages and delete them in your apt cache. Then run apt again to download fresh packages. For ease of operation, you could simply rename the archives directory and make a blank archives directory. Then run apt.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 1/25/07, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
When I try to compile mplayer from source on my system, it exits with an error message saying that the version of gcc installed on the system is not supported by mplayer. And hence, the search for an alternative.
There'll be a bunch to gcc versions on your system. Check with $ ls /usr/bin/gcc*
/usr/bin/gcc is just is link to one of these. Try changing the gcc used from gcc-3.x to gcc-4.x (or vice-versa) as follows: $ export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-xx
Then try compiling. You might need to change g++ also: $ export CXX=/usr/bin/g++-xx
. farazs
On 1/24/07, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
I googled for an alternative solution but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
AFAIK Mplayer is probably the best (and only?) multimedia player on console. You don't need to compile from source. You can search and download .deb. apt-get.org is one source. debian-multimedia.org is another.
Regards,
I googled for an alternative solution but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
AFAIK Mplayer is probably the best (and only?) multimedia player on console. You don't need to compile from source. You can search and download .deb. apt-get.org is one source. debian-multimedia.org is another.
Or get it straight from the horses mouth :
Add
# mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
to your sources.list, run apt-get update and ENJOY ;-)
Regards,
- vihan
On 1/24/07, Vihan Pandey wrote:
Or get it straight from the horses mouth :
Add
# mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
to your sources.list, run apt-get update and ENJOY ;-)
it moved to http://debian-multimedia.org/ longtime back, (from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/)
it moved to http://debian-multimedia.org/ longtime back, (from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/)
Didn't know that, thanks for the info :-)
Regards,
- vihan
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 10:09 +0100, Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 1/24/07, Vihan Pandey wrote:
Or get it straight from the horses mouth :
Add
# mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main
to your sources.list, run apt-get update and ENJOY ;-)
it moved to http://debian-multimedia.org/ longtime back, (from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/)
I added this line to my sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
and then issued this command
apt-get install mplayer
no luck! throws up an error saying the package is broken.
Regards, Sarfaraz.
On 1/24/07, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
I added this line to my sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable mainand then issued this command
apt-get install mplayerno luck! throws up an error saying the package is broken.
And since you haven't mentioned, let me ask you if you did 'apt-get update' after adding the line to sources.list?
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:27 -0500, mehul wrote:
On 1/24/07, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
I added this line to my sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable mainand then issued this command
apt-get install mplayerno luck! throws up an error saying the package is broken.
And since you haven't mentioned, let me ask you if you did 'apt-get update' after adding the line to sources.list?
Yes, I did.
Regards, Sarfaraz.
On 1/24/07, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
And since you haven't mentioned, let me ask you if you did 'apt-get
update'
after adding the line to sources.list?
Yes, I did.
Then you can try sources.list put up on Ubuntu Guide http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Main_Page Select your version of ubuntu and see if those repositories still work. Here's the link http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu#How_to_add_extra_repositories
2007/1/25, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com:
I added this line to my sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable mainand then issued this command
apt-get install mplayer
You should try testing as stable is for debian sarge and which will have older libraries.
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
Let me know if it works.
Cheers Praveen
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:24:51 +0400, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I am looking for a console based movie player similar to mplayer. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and facing problems in compiling mplayer on my system.
try aaxine
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:12:55 +0400, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
try aaxine
is this how Neo views his videos?!
Yep!
My monitor had gone into high resolution but 4/8 bit frame buffer.. so i did
consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/gr8x6.psf.gz
on my terminal
I watched 2 fast 2 furious this way..
I actually used mplayer with aa driver.. but i dont think it will make much difference .. will it ?
On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:55, Laxminarayan G Kamath A wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:12:55 +0400, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com
wrote:
try aaxine
is this how Neo views his videos?!
Yep!
My monitor had gone into high resolution but 4/8 bit frame buffer.. so i did
consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/gr8x6.psf.gz
on my terminal
In my Fedora Core 6 box, aaxine is failing. [kd@kdlappy videos]$ aaxine TruthHappens.ogg This is xine (aalib ui) - a free video player v0.99.4 (c) 2000-2004 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. Built with xine library 1.1.2 (1.1.2). Found xine library version: 1.1.3 (1.1.3). main: video driver aa failed
Any idea
Kushal
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:20:38 +0530, Kushal Das kushaldas@gmail.com wrote:
In my Fedora Core 6 box, aaxine is failing. [kd@kdlappy videos]$ aaxine TruthHappens.ogg main: video driver aa failed
try aaxine -driver slang TruthHappens.ogg
and then try these drivers in the following order (order is by intuition : dont ask the logic) slang curses linux stdout stderr
and then there is fbxine too! which I realized just now. I cant try it as I dont have a framebuffer :-/
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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:54 AM, Sarfaraz Kazi cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I am looking for a console based movie player similar to mplayer. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and facing problems in compiling mplayer on my system.
I googled for an alternative solution but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Why compile mplayer, when you can just `sudo apt-get install mplayer-686` ?
Regards, BG
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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 01:54, Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
Hi!
I am looking for a console based movie player similar to mplayer. I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and facing problems in compiling mplayer on my system.
I googled for an alternative solution but couldn't find anything useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can use mplayer with DirectFB on the console. mplayer has to be compiled with DirectFB support though. Are the mplayer packages referred to by other posters on this thread compiled with DirectFB support?
Of course, DirectFB is not a necessity. I've had problems with svga though.
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