[SOLVED] Missing some important Mplayer codecs?

Question

Hi!
I've used 'genkipseudo's PKGBUILD of Mplayer to enable CoreAVC support, but it seems I'm lacking some of the codecs I used to have when I used the normal install of Mplayer. I can no longer play quicktime files in firefox (only sound). For normal playback (not using firefox) WMV doesn't work and some avi's won't play either. I tried to install the win32codecs from aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14946, but that didn't fix the problem.
Can anyone see what codecs I'm missing by looking at the PKGBUILD? I'm still kinda noob so I don't understand compiling completely yet. This is the build I used:
# Mplayer-svn-coreavc
# mplayer-svn patched with support for coreavc
# Modified : me
# Original PKGBUILD by below-----
# Maintainer: Tom Killian <[email protected]>
# Contributor: lucke <lucke at o2 dot pl>
pkgname=mplayer-svn-coreavc
pkgver=26871
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A movie player for linux"
depends=('libmad' 'libungif' 'cdparanoia' 'gtk2' 'sdl' 'xvidcore'
'lame' 'libtheora' 'faac' 'libxxf86dga' 'libxv' 'libgl'
'smbclient' 'aalib' 'lirc-utils' 'x264>=20071202-1'
'jack-audio-connection-kit')
makedepends=('subversion' 'pkgconfig' 'libcaca' 'unzip' 'live-media' 'libdts')
source=(ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2)
conflicts=('mplayer')
provides=('mplayer')
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/"
license="GPL"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
_svntrunk=svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk
_svnmod=mplayer
_coreavctrunk=http://coreavc-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
_coremod=coreavc-for-linux
build() {
cd $startdir/src
svn co $_svntrunk $_svnmod --config-dir ./ -r $pkgver
cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build
cd $_svnmod-build
unset CFLAGS
./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --with-extraincdir=/usr/lib/live-media \
--enable-gui --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-largefiles --enable-menu \
--enable-x11 --enable-gl --language=all \
--disable-libdv --disable-liblzo --disable-speex --disable-fribidi --disable-arts \
--disable-dvdnav --disable-openal --disable-musepack --disable-esd --disable-mga
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && sed 's|-march=i486|-march=i686|g' -i config.mak
# Lines for coreavc-for-linux
cd $startdir/src
svn co $_coreavctrunk $_coremod
cp -r $_coremod $_coremod-copy
cd $_coremod-copy
make -C dshowserver
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
cp dshowserver/dshowserver $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
cp loader/registercodec $startdir/pkg/usr/local/bin
cd $startdir/src/$_svnmod-build
patch -p0 < $startdir/src/$_coremod-copy/mplayer/dshowserver.patch
# End of lines for coreavc-for-linux
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
cp etc/{codecs.conf,input.conf,example.conf} $startdir/pkg/etc/mplayer
ln -s /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf
rm -rf $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/font
mv $startdir/src/Blue $startdir/pkg/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default
rm -rf ../$_svnmod-build
md5sums=('e4e2020d11b681aac898103b3ba723c4')
What codecs do I need?
(And is a lack of the correct codecs my actual problem?)
Thanks
Last edited by Perre (2008-05-27 20:58:05)

Answer 1

Nope, didn't work. Get this message:
"Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x44495658"
Edit: Nvm... I commented out some "tweaks" in my mplayer config file and now everything works as it's supposed to, even quicktime in firefox.
I guess my capabilities are somewhat lower than my eagerness to try new things out.
genkipseudo, thanks for all the help, both here and on mail. Your willingness to help out a noob really exemplifies the spirit of linux and open source.
Last edited by Perre (2008-05-27 20:08:51)