ubuntu linux

[rasczak]

i need a little help with installing either one of these players

first i am running ubuntu linux on an old compaq presario 1200, couldnt tell you which kind of cpu, but my guess is a p2

in terminal i run apt-cache search mplayer
and it says "mga vid-source - kernel drivver for the back-end scaler on matrox cards (source)
then run apt-get install mplayer-386 and it says

E: could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory 9/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?


can someone help a newb out pls?

tia
joe

btw i think i already enabled multi and universe but how do i check to make sure i did it correctly?

 

[rmrf]

sudo apt-get install mplayer-386

For installing any software using apt, aptitude, or synaptic, you will have to provide your password for sudo. When running apt or aptitude, you will be to prefix your command with sudo so that it knows to use elevated privileges for installing.

 

[magomago]

add sudo the beginning. to use apt-get you need to be temporarily logged in as root. by adding "sudo" in front it does that. afer you type that you will need to insert your password. do that and all will be well

 

[Crusty]

If you want to avoid putting in your password everytime you run sudo you can edit /etc/sudoers and put the following line at the bottom

jpbelauskas ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

where jpbelauskas is your username....

I would advise against doing this though... if somebody can get a shell with your login they can just do sudo su and automatically have root to your box... which is BAD

 

[rasczak]

ok i tried this but it can't find mplayer package. am i missing something?

btw thanks for your replies

 

[drag]

There are some restrictions on some of the things mplayer does legal-wise.

Much of the software codecs that it supports, such as wmv, dvds, or quicktime files, have licensing and patent issues that make what mplayer does gray-market. Not quite illegal, not quite legal.

So some distros like Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, don't officially support it to avoid accidently passing on legal entanglements to it's end users.. such as if you used it in a business or school enviroment.

Check out Ubuntu's website and forums. google around a bit and you'll find information on how to enable 3rd party repositories and such that will allow you to install mplayer and other things like that.

Also mplayer kinda sucks unless you want to do advanced stuff. Check out VLC or Xine or Totem. They'll do everything once you get the codecs aviable for it. (legal stuff again.).

Realplayer has realplay aviable as a application for Linux. They open sourced everything except for the codecs. The open source version is called Helix player and you may already have it installed on your system. Check out google.

 

[rasczak]

hey drag, thanks man...yea i thought it had something to do with third party repoistories. but i didn't enable tat cuz i was a bit afraid to.....

 

[Nothinman]

Did you run 'sudo apt-get update' before trying to install it? Because looking at packages.ubuntu.com shows that mplayer is indeed in multiverse.

 

[rasczak]

oh i forgot torun that. maybe that's why it's taking sooo long for the video to come thru

 

[rasczak]

ok i'm still having problems with this realplayer. grrr. i ran sudo apt-get update
i figured out how to get the realplayer.bin unpackaged,

joe@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i w32codecs.

is reads package, unpacks, and then finishes up, but thenafter it says "setting up codecs"
nothing happens.

i try running a wmv i have saved on my desktop, type mplayer movie.wmv and i get nothing, it just opens up mplayer then finds no movie, then cuts out. i try going to a website and watching a video and the mplayer hangs at 27% buffering.

am i missing something?

 

[Nothinman]

It shouldn't say anything after setting up codecs, all it probably does is extract them to /usr/lib/win32.

What codec is movie.wmv using? Try one that you know should work, like divx or something.

 

[rasczak]

well, i'm not sure. if i wanted to try one how would i go about doing that?

 

[Nothinman]

I have tons of divx and xvid media laying around, I don't really know where to tell you to get some.

You don't know whether the WMV file was created with WMP 7, 8 or 9?

Actually I just played a wmv I have and mplayer said:

Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)

So WMV9 can work, but I think I may have copied that codec from a Windows install manually, at this point I don't remember.

Why don't you paste in here the output of mplayer when you try to play the movie?

 

[rasczak]

joe@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ mplayer movie.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 (Family: 5, Stepping: 12)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for Debian.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
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...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing movie.wmv.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV3] 360x270 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 6000->128000 (48.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Creating new registry
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0 size:291600 align:1
StreamCount r=0x0 1 1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU  
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 360 x 270 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 360x270 => 360x270 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 32000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 32000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 32000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init

so when i get this te mplayer just locks up and refuses to play any video.

 

[rmrf]

Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)

wmp9 seems to be the codec. I use xine for al lmy video needs, and mplayer for when I watch stuff embedded in web browsers.

try looking here to see if this helps:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36050

otherwise try this:

mplayer -nocache movie.wmv

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: rmrf

Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)

wmp9 seems to be the codec. I use xine for al lmy video needs, and mplayer for when I watch stuff embedded in web browsers.

try looking here to see if this helps:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36050

otherwise try this:

mplayer -nocache movie.wmv

ok i did all that and got a little further ahead now. instead of being stuck, i get a green screen in xine.

 

[Nothinman]

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init

so when i get this te mplayer just locks up and refuses to play any video.

Did you hit ctrl+c or did those signal 2 errors pop up on their own?

 

[rasczak]

they popped up on their own

 

[Nothinman]

Well that's not right, nothing should be sending it a SIGINT on it's own.

But, try running mplayer with the -nosound option. My first guess is that your sound card doesn't do hardware mixing and that mplayer is blocking on the sound card since something else has it open.

 

[rasczak]

as in mplayer -nosound movie.wmv?

i should have mentioned i do get audio, i can hear voices, but my screen is green. if you look back at my pasting, there is a ine about editing /echo something or other
how would i go about doing that?

 

[Nothinman]

Yes

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas
as in mplayer -nosound movie.wmv?

i should have mentioned i do get audio, i can hear voices, but my screen is green. if you look back at my pasting, there is a ine about editing /echo something or other
how would i go about doing that?

 

[Nothinman]

Nah, changing the /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq value will let mplayer have a higher resolution timer, but it shouldn't fix your current problem. At the very worst, the timer thing might cause A/V to get out of sync but you're not quite there yet =)

Try running 'mplayer -vo x11 movie.wmv', it's possible there's a problem with the XV overlay, but usually that results in a blue screen, not green.

If that does the same thing run, 'mplayer -v movie.wmv' and post the output.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Nah, changing the /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq value will let mplayer have a higher resolution timer, but it shouldn't fix your current problem. At the very worst, the timer thing might cause A/V to get out of sync but you're not quite there yet =)

Try running 'mplayer -vo x11 movie.wmv', it's possible there's a problem with the XV overlay, but usually that results in a blue screen, not green.

If that does the same thing run, 'mplayer -v movie.wmv' and post the output.

joe@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/Desktop
joe@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ mplayer -v movie.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 (Family: 5, Stepping: 12)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for Debian.


CommandLine: '-v' 'movie.wmv'
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/joe/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit 3DNow) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/joe/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 59 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...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('movie.wmv.conf') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/mrs_m_stoner.wmv.conf'
Playing movie.wmv.
[file] File size is 1778282 bytes
STREAM: [file] movie.wmv
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:0 eof:360448
Checking for YUV4MPEG2
ASF file format detected.
ASF: packets: 317 flags: 2 max_packet_size: 5600 min_packet_size: 5600 max_bitrate: 456130 preroll: 3000
stream type: guid_audio_stream
stream concealment: guid_audio_conceal_interleave
type: 28 bytes, stream: 8 bytes ID: 1
unk1: 0 unk2: 104EFA7C
FILEPOS=0x9D3
==> Found audio stream: 1
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 353 (0x161)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 32000
avg byte/sec: 6000
Block align: 2304
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 10
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [88] [0] [0] [1f] [0] [0] [2d] [0] [0]
===========================
ASF: audio scrambling: 1 x 1 x 2304
stream type: guid_video_stream
stream concealment: unknown guid 0057fb20-555b-cf11-a8fd00805f5c442b
type: 55 bytes, stream: 0 bytes ID: 2
unk1: 0 unk2: 42AC880
FILEPOS=0xA45
==> Found video stream: 2
======= VIDEO Format ======
biSize 44
biWidth 360
biHeight 270
biPlanes 1
biBitCount 24
biCompression 861293911='WMV3'
biSizeImage 0
Unknown extra header dump: [4a] [69] [1a] [1]
===========================
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
object size = 38
stream count=[0x2][2]
stream id=[0x1][1]
max bitrate=[0xc0a4][49316]
stream id=[0x2][2]
max bitrate=[0x6351e][406814]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===

Title:
Author:
Copyright:
Comment:
Rating:

Found movie at 0xB00 - 0x1B2160
ASF: 1 audio and 1 video streams found
Auto-selected ASF video ID = 2
Auto-selected ASF audio ID = 1
ASF: Searching for audio stream (id:1).
VIDEO: [WMV3] 360x270 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x33564D57 size:360x270 fps:1000.00 ftime:=0.0010
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/sub/'
get_path('default.sub') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/default.sub'
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
dec_audio: Allocating 131072 + 65536 = 196608 bytes for output buffer.
FFmpeg's libavcodec audio codec
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 6000->128000 (48.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==========================================================================
X11 opening display: :0.0
vo: X11 color mask: FFFFFF (R:FF0000 G:FF00 B:FF)
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
[x11] Detected wm supports NetWM.
[x11] Detected wm supports FULLSCREEN state.
[x11] Detected wm supports ABOVE state.
[x11] Detected wm supports BELOW state.
[x11] Current fstype setting honours FULLSCREEN ABOVE BELOW X atoms
Disabling DPMS
DPMSDisable stat: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
get_path('registry') -> '/home/joe/.mplayer/registry'
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0 size:291600 align:1
StreamCount r=0x0 1 1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU  
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 360 x 270 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
Trying filter chain: vo
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO Config (360x270->360x270,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
VO: [xv] 360x270 => 360x270 Planar YV12
VO: Description: X11/Xv
VO: Author: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> and others
Xvideo image format: 0x36315652 (RV16) packed
Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
using Xvideo port 61 for hw scaling
[xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 360 dh: 270
INFO: Win32/DMO video codec init OK.
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 32000Hz/2ch/16bit...
[libaf] Adding filter dummy
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=32000Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 and bps = 2
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 32000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 32000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: requested format: 32000 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)alsa-init: compiled for ALSA-1.0.8
alsa-init: setup for 1/2 channel(s)
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache
vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init
Uninit audio filters...
[libaf] Removing filter dummy
uninit audio: ffmpeg
uninit video: dmo
joe@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ mplayer -vo x11 movie.wmv
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 (Family: 5, Stepping: 12)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for Debian.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
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...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing movie.wmv.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ASF file format detected.
VIDEO: [WMV3] 360x270 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 6000->128000 (48.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 800x600 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0 size:291600 align:1
StreamCount r=0x0 1 1
Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU  
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 360 x 270 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using BGRA as output csp (no 3)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [x11] 360x270 => 360x270 BGRA
SwScaler: using unscaled BGRA -> BGRA special converter
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfmmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 32000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 32000Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 32000 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 32000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: ao2_init
joe@ubuntu:~/Desktop$



i ctrl - c 'd out of it twice because the both locked up on me.

i was wrong earlier about the green screen. i got that when i tried to use xine. when i use mplayer i get lock ups.

 

[rmrf]

did you follow this guide, or just install it yourself?

http://ubuntuguide.org/#mplayer