[SOLVED] Running mplayer in tty

Hello
I am trying to play a movie in tty. i tried the following command:
mplayer -vo aa:driver=curses -monitorpixelaspect 0.5 movie.mp4
But the output is blank. some characters show for a fraction of a second and then it's blank again. The results are the same if played in terminal emulator in desktop.
It works fine with X11 driver, And i tried "mplayer -vo aa:driver=curses -monitorpixelaspect 0.5 movie.mp4 > out.txt" It works like that, but ofcourse i want to play it on my screen not a text file. I get the same results with libcaca.
I have also tried using vlc player and it works fine. So i suspect there is some configuration i need to do or something to install to make mplayer work in tty?
I am using Intel HD graphics 4000 if it's any relevant.
Any help?
Last edited by Viruser (2014-01-06 15:07:02)

jasonwryan wrote:FWIW, mplayer is dead in the water, use mpv.
I love mpv as well, it's essentially the only media player I use now. But, this won't help the user achieve their goal. So far as I know, mpv dropped support for the curses driver.
All the best,
-HG
Last edited by HalosGhost (2014-01-05 19:15:33)

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Everything worked just prior to the pacman update this morning (first in two weeks), then this happened:
/usr/bin/mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.118: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
x264, mplayer (build date: 10/15/11) and smplayer (build date: 11/11/10) installed from extra and community repos accordingly from a pretty up-to-date mirror (mirror @ rit.edu). VLC, unsurprisingly, appears to be fine.
Last edited by ssri (2011-11-12 19:34:14)

The x264 package has just been updated http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=x264 - mirrors may need some more time to sync (if in doubt, check the version).
It's a similar issue to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130192
You can download the package directly from the mirror by clicking the 'Download From Mirror' link on the top right http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/x264/ (for32-bit)
Last edited by karol (2011-11-12 19:35:32)

[SOLVED] Running 32bit applications on arch x64 (Steam/bumblebee)

Hi, guys. I tried to use native steam on my laptop, and I got a usual problem https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art … -EYZB-7457 .
I 'm using bumblebee and I suppose I have mistakes in my lib32 packages. So it would be nice if someone explained what's wrong with it. Tried a lot of suggestions from other threads I might break it by myself=/. So what i have:
$ optirun steam
Running Steam on arch 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
[VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
[VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer.
[VGL] If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device
[VGL] permissions may be set incorrectly.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
[1117/154407:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[1117/154407:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
[VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
[VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer.
[VGL] If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device
[VGL] permissions may be set incorrectly.
Error: OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems.
For more information visit https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1383158641_client)
$ glxinfo32
name of display: :0.0
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/tls/i965_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/bubka/.drirc: No such file or directory.
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
$ optirun glxinfo32
name of display: :0.0
[VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
[VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer.
[VGL] If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device
[VGL] permissions may be set incorrectly.
[VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
[VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer.
[VGL] If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device
[VGL] permissions may be set incorrectly.
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
server glx vendor string: VirtualGL
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SUN_get_transparent_index
client glx vendor string: VirtualGL
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SUN_get_transparent_index
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SUN_get_transparent_index
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 310M/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 325.15
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
# pacman -Qs lib32
local/lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1
An alternative implementation of Linux sound support (32 bit)
local/lib32-attr 2.4.47-1
Extended attribute support library for ACL support (32-bit)
local/lib32-bzip2 1.0.6-1
A high-quality data compression program (32-bit)
local/lib32-dbus 1.6.16-1
Freedesktop.org message bus system (32-bit)
local/lib32-elfutils 0.157-1
Collection of libraries for working with ELF object files and DWARF
debugging information (32-bit)
local/lib32-expat 2.1.0-1
An XML Parser library written in C (32 bit)
local/lib32-flac 1.3.0-1
Free Lossless Audio Codec (32-bit)
local/lib32-fontconfig 2.11.0-1
A library for configuring and customizing font access (32-bit)
local/lib32-freetype2 2.5.0.1-1
TrueType font rendering library (32-bit)
local/lib32-gcc-libs 4.8.2-4
Runtime libraries shipped by GCC (32-bit)
local/lib32-glew 1.10.0-1
A cross-platform C/C++ extension loading library (32 bit)
local/lib32-glib2 2.38.1-1
Common C routines used by GTK+ 2.4 and other libs (32-bit)
local/lib32-glibc 2.18-10
GNU C Library for multilib
local/lib32-glu 9.0.0-2
Mesa OpenGL utility library (32 bits)
local/lib32-json-c 0.11-1
A JSON implementation in C (32-bit)
local/lib32-lcms2 2.5-1
Small-footprint color management engine, version 2 (32-bit)
local/lib32-libasyncns 0.8-6
A C library for Linux/Unix for executing name service queries
asynchronously (32-bit)
local/lib32-libcap 2.22-2
POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-libdrm 2.4.47-1
Userspace interface to kernel DRM services (32-bit)
local/lib32-libffi 3.0.13-1
A portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions
(32-bit)
local/lib32-libgcrypt 1.5.3-1
General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG (32-bit)
local/lib32-libgpg-error 1.12-1
Support library for libgcrypt (32-bit)
local/lib32-libice 1.0.8-1
X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libjpeg-turbo 1.3.0-3
libjpeg derivative with accelerated baseline JPEG compression and
decompression (32-bit)
local/lib32-libmng 2.0.2-1
A collection of routines used to create and manipulate MNG format graphics
files (32-bit)
local/lib32-libogg 1.3.1-1
Ogg bitstream and framing library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libpciaccess 0.13.2-1
X11 PCI access library (32-bit
local/lib32-libpng 1.6.6-1
A collection of routines used to create PNG format graphics files (32-bit)
local/lib32-libpulse 4.0-6
A featureful, general-purpose sound server (32-bit client libraries)
local/lib32-libsm 1.2.2-1
X11 Session Management library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libsndfile 1.0.25-2
A C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (32-bit)
local/lib32-libtiff 4.0.3-2
Library for manipulation of TIFF images (32-bit)
local/lib32-libvorbis 1.3.3-1
Vorbis codec library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libx11 1.6.2-1
X11 client-side library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxau 1.0.8-1
X11 authorisation library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxcb 1.9.1-1
X11 client-side library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxcursor 1.1.14-1
X cursor management library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxdamage 1.1.4-1
X11 damaged region extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxdmcp 1.1.1-1
X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxext 1.3.2-1
X11 miscellaneous extensions library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxfixes 5.0.1-1
X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxi 1.7.2-1
X11 Input extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxmu 1.1.2-1
X11 miscellaneous micro-utility library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxrandr 1.4.2-1
X11 RandR extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxrender 0.9.8-1
X Rendering Extension client library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxss 1.2.2-1
X11 Screen Saver extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxt 1.1.4-1
X11 toolkit intrinsics library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxtst 1.2.2-1
X11 Testing -- Resource extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxv 1.0.10-1
X11 Video extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxxf86vm 1.1.3-1
X11 XFree86 video mode extension library (32-bit)
local/lib32-llvm-libs 3.3-1
Low Level Virtual Machine (runtime library)(32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa 9.2.3-1
an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa-demos 8.1.0-3
Mesa demos and tools (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa-libgl 9.2.3-1
Mesa 3-D graphics library (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 331.20-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-openal 1.15.1-1
OpenAL audio library for use with opengl (32-bit)
local/lib32-openssl 1.0.1.e-2
The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer
Security (32-bit)
local/lib32-pcre 8.33-1
A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions (32-bit)
local/lib32-primus 20131027-1
Faster OpenGL offloading for Bumblebee (32-bit)
local/lib32-qt4 4.8.5-6
A cross-platform application and UI framework (32-bit)
local/lib32-sqlite 3.8.1-1
A C library that implements an SQL database engine (32-bit)
local/lib32-systemd 208-1
system and service manager (32-bit)
local/lib32-util-linux 2.24-1
Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux (32-bit)
local/lib32-v4l-utils 1.0.0-2
Userspace tools and conversion library for Video 4 Linux (32-bit)
local/lib32-virtualgl 2.3.2-2
32-bit serverside components for 64-bit VirtualGL servers
local/lib32-xz 5.0.5-1
Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files (32-bit)
local/lib32-zlib 1.2.8-1
Compression library implementing the deflate compression method found in
gzip and PKZIP (32-bit)
Thanks
Last edited by bubka (2013-11-17 14:38:38)

Direct rendering is working for me. Here's a list of all lib32 packages installed on my system:
lib32-acl
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-plugins
lib32-atk
lib32-attr
lib32-bzip2
lib32-cairo
lib32-curl
lib32-dbus
lib32-e2fsprogs
lib32-elfutils
lib32-expat
lib32-flac
lib32-flashplugin
lib32-fontconfig
lib32-freetype2
lib32-gcc-libs
lib32-gdk-pixbuf2
lib32-gettext
lib32-glew
lib32-glib
lib32-glib2
lib32-glibc
lib32-glu
lib32-gmp
lib32-gnutls
lib32-gtk2
lib32-harfbuzz
lib32-icu
lib32-intel-dri
lib32-json-c
lib32-keyutils
lib32-krb5
lib32-lcms2
lib32-libasyncns
lib32-libcanberra
lib32-libcap
lib32-libcups
lib32-libdrm
lib32-libffi
lib32-libgcrypt
lib32-libgnome-keyring
lib32-libgpg-error
lib32-libice
lib32-libjpeg-turbo
lib32-libjpeg6-turbo
lib32-libldap
lib32-libltdl
lib32-libmng
lib32-libogg
lib32-libpciaccess
lib32-libpng
lib32-libpng12
lib32-libpng15
lib32-libpulse
lib32-libsm
lib32-libsndfile
lib32-libssh2
lib32-libtasn1
lib32-libtiff
lib32-libtxc_dxtn
lib32-libvorbis
lib32-libx11
lib32-libxau
lib32-libxcb
lib32-libxcomposite
lib32-libxcursor
lib32-libxdamage
lib32-libxdmcp
lib32-libxext
lib32-libxfixes
lib32-libxft
lib32-libxi
lib32-libxinerama
lib32-libxmu
lib32-libxrandr
lib32-libxrender
lib32-libxss
lib32-libxt
lib32-libxtst
lib32-libxv
lib32-libxxf86vm
lib32-llvm-libs
lib32-mesa
lib32-mesa-libgl
lib32-mpg123
lib32-ncurses
lib32-nettle
lib32-nspr
lib32-nss
lib32-nvidia-utils
lib32-openal
lib32-openssl
lib32-p11-kit
lib32-pango
lib32-pcre
lib32-pixman
lib32-primus
lib32-qt4
lib32-sdl
lib32-sdl_image
lib32-sdl_ttf
lib32-sqlite
lib32-systemd
lib32-tdb
lib32-util-linux
lib32-v4l-utils
lib32-virtualgl
lib32-xz
lib32-zlib

[SOLVED] Run hook on external monitor connect/disconnect

I want to run a script whenever I connect or disconnect an external monitor from my laptop.
Is there a hook I can create somewhere to achieve this?
Last edited by Bruce Connor (2013-07-16 16:03:03)

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be working for me. =/
I've inserted
echo "Action was $SRANDRD_ACTION" >> $HOME/srandrd.out
into the script to attempt some debugging but I get no output. My guess is that the script isn't being run at all.
Last edited by Bruce Connor (2013-07-05 22:14:49)

[SOLVED] Run xscreensaver when I close the laptop lid

I have xscreensaver running in my archlinux, and with a systemd service, I can start it after waking up my laptop.
The problem is that I like to keep my laptop running when I close the lid (for example, to go to bed while I'm downloading a file, I like to simply close my lid), but I want to lock my computer.
In the /etc/systemd/logind.conf, there is a nice option called HandleLidSwitch, which specifies which action is invoked when the lid is closed, and there is a lock option, but It doesn't work for me.
The option suspend works fine.
Here is my /etc/systemd/logind.conf:
# This file is part of systemd.
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# See logind.conf(5) for details
[Login]
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#Controllers=
#ResetControllers=cpu
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
HandlePowerKey=suspend
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
Any help?
Last edited by alomsimoy (2013-09-10 18:08:33)

I would say that you should just have logind ignore the LidSwitch altogether. So if it is set to ignore the lid switch, then it obviously isn't going to be entering the suspend.target (or is it the sleep.target, I can't remember). Therefore, you are going to have to have some other way of triggering actions in response to these events.
The lid switch sends an event to udev, so you have the option of having a udev rule that responds to this, or using acpid to start this for you. I would recommend using acpid, as it is much more flexible in what it can allow you to do.
Edit: acpid is not necessarily more flexible than a udev rule, as it relies on the udev events. But it is a much easier method of setup since it simply relies of basic scripting in order to make it work. It can allow for one central script (or collection of scripts) to handle all the different events that udev sends. To see what kinds of things trigger a udev event, you can use udevadm monitor or if you install acpid, there is the acpi_listen option.
Edit2: BTW, what is it you mean by not working? Does it still suspend on lid close, or is your xscreensaver not started? You need to be more explicit there. If it is still suspending, have you rebooted or restarted logind after making those changes to logind.conf? You can't just edit the file and have the changes implemented right away, as the configuration is parsed and the settign implemented on the service start.
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-09-10 17:28:05)

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