MPlayer for OpenSolaris @ Multimedia Repository

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 08:13

MPlayer LogoI finally managed to get MPlayer compiled and packaged. Although I rarely use MPlayer (Totem is my preference) a lot of people are big fans. A special thanks to Bruno Schmitt for some very helpful hints.

It was compiled with gcc 4.3.2. Architecture was set to i686 so you should be able to use it on most modern Intel hardware. I have added developer/gcc/gcc-runtime-432@4.3.2 as a dependency so just install MBLmplayer to get mplayer and all required libraries.

MPlayer Screenshot

I've done some basic testing with quite a few video files including DVD Video and everything appears to play okay. DVD Navigation support is still a bit rough.

I haven't done any testing with mencoder. If you use mencoder, let me know how you go.

If you haven't added the repository to your OpenSolaris installation follow the steps below to add the repository and install MPlayer.

  1. "pkg set-authority -O http://ips.homeunix.com:10906 ips.homeunix.com" to add repository.
  2. "pkg refresh --full" to update catalog.
  3. "pkg install MBLmplayer" to install plugins.

Good luck and as usual, feedback/comments welcome.

Request

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 21:21.

If possible, please include VDPAU support in the next release. The Solaris NVIDIA driver supports it.

Thanks!

RE : Request

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 23:56.

Yes, definitely will. I've had mplayer running and using VDPAU on Solaris 10 for a while too so I'll make sure is works for 2010.03.

Video editing

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 21:59.

I found a program called LiVES and it claims to work with OpenSolaris 09-06. However I can not seem to find any downloads on their site that look like they would run on my system.

If it is true that they already have their program working, it might save you a lot of trouble as all you would need to do is make the pkg and put it in the repository. I don't know all that much about all this though so I might be really wrong. At any rate I really appreciate what you are doing.

Request

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 19:36.

Not sure if this is the right place to do it but I can't find any other place to request programs. Keeping with the idea of multimedia I don't suppose you could try to put a simple video editing software into your repository. I have heard that Pitivi is good or something called blender. I don't really care that much just so long as it is as good or better than the one in Windows XP.

If you can, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

RE: Request

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 19:52.

I'm desperate for a video editing solution as well. I'm keen to try porting Cinelerra to OpenSolaris.

Stay tuned, I've been on the verge of starting it for a while. I think your post will be the icing on the cake to motivate me ;-)

About picture

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/11/2009 - 02:22.

Great Work, Thanks !

when doing "About", there is a picture showing "MPlayer, the movie Player for Linux"
is it possible to add
"and OpenSolaris" ?

Cheers
Karim

tks

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 12:47.

great work,

Note: the player works great. only cannot play through smb share.

thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 03:51.

Hi,

Thank you so much! Great work. Now my Solaris box finally turned into to a multimedia machine!

cheers,
Fabian

Compiling mplayer

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 09:54.

Thanks for the package, mplayer is really useful. Is mplayer compilable from the provided source or it requires adjustments for OpenSolaris? What about its various codecs which are provided in binary form on their sire?

Awesome

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 15:27.

Thank you soooo much for this!!!

I can finally ditch the Ubuntu VM I've kept hanging around just to do the media stuff with.

Works like a charm on snv_118

It's Great!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 17:18.

Thank you a lot! It was my last problem for OpenSolaris then you solved it. Thanks!

Cannot Play Video Stream

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 04:02.

Im on b118.

Builds( however in the config options the OSS audio driver does not show up as an option )

When I try to open a video file I get
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: unknown
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

the --enable-debug option is not accessible as i used the package manager. i tried recompiling my old mplayer source but... that seems to fall short of anything working so i am still using my old binary i compiled with ffmpeg and lame. Just cant play mkv files because of the sun audio i think... who knows I have been on ever message board I can fine. Someone recomended this site and your package. any help would be greatly appreciated.

RE : Cannot Play Video Stream

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 20:37.

I haven't tested it on build 118 however I was getting the exact same error on 111b until I compiled with gcc 4.x. Does that error occur with all video files? Are you using the mplayer from my repository or does that occur with you own compiled version, or both?

I'm happy to help so feel free to drop me an email if you wish and we can try and work it out.

Cheers.

timeouts

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 12:39.

I was getting some timeouts while trying to install this, but the following fixed the problem for me:

PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=300 pfexec packagemanager

Then choose the ips.homeunix.com repository and look for the mplayer package

RE: timeouts

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 12:50.

Sorry about the timeouts. My upload speed is only 384kbs and it's pretty swamped at times. Thanks for persisting.

answer to my prayers

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:34.

This version of Mplayer works, which is more that I could ever get out of the one from blastwave. That that blastwave is bad, I just don't know how to get their version of Mplayer to work. The sound would never match that video and it was jumpy. I have a video camera that stores videos and MPEG4 and those would either play poorly with Blastwave Mplayer or make Totem crash ever a second or two.

However, this new Mplayer that you are providing works great and now I can watch all the movies that my wife makes of our son without having to plug the video camera into the TV. Thanks.

RE: answer to my prayers

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 21:06.

Good to here that it works well for you. Thanks for the feedback.

Nice

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:42.

Glad to see a more modern port of mplayer than the one from blastwave (though it has been satisfactory for me so far).

I also bought the Fluendo codecs for use in Totem, etc, but sometimes I'll still come across a video that isn't supported, but mplayer will play it (at least, so far).

RE: Nice

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:52.

It would be great for me to know the type of video that doesn't play within Totem. Perhaps I can investigate and possibly compile the appropriate GStreamer plugin.

Thanks for your feedback.

Dude, You rock!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 01:18.

Dude,

You rock!

thanks

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 18:56.

Works very well.

Finally integrated mplayer.