32 bit MPlayer compile without 32 bit chroot?

rpdillon · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 50

I really don't have the disk space to set up a chroot right now, and I don't have the money for a new drive.

I want a 32 bit mplayer to use with the 32 bit codecs. I have most everything else working (both 32 and 64 bit), but after reading the AMD64 technotes, etc., I'm having a hell of a time trying to download, configure and install mplayer so it thinks its on a normal 32 bit machine. Is there a how-to anywhere on this, or has anyone gotten it to work?

My basic procedure has been:
1) Download MPlayer source
2) untar to ~/mplayer32
3) linux32 configure (I've also tried linux32 configure --target=i686-linux)
4) make

At step 4, it always fails. Even when I insert step:

2.5) Set CFLAGS to include -m32

I have the emul libs emerged, as well as a multilib compiled gcc. Ideas?

jdevers · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 26

Why don't you just install a binary version and not worry about it?

rpdillon · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 50

Well, I thought of that, but to be honest, I cannot find a binary package for x86 mplayer anywhere.

emerge -K mplayer

doesn't work, because I don't have a binhost, and can't find one. Googling turned up nothing. I suppose I could install Gentoo on my laptop, compile it there, use quickpackage, copy the built package over and use that, but honestly, there must be a better way.

No one here has obtained an mplayer that works with the 32 bit codecs?

augury · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia

you may need to build it staticly

Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mplayer/downloads.html

Get the fedora core RPMs, use app-arch/rpm2targz to make tarballs, and install under /opt or /usr/local. Change the executable name to "mplayer32" or something. Use ldd to make sure you have all the libraries.

rpdillon · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 50

OK, I'd pursuing that line of reasoning earlier, but the libraries it's trying to read aren't there. I'd need to grab RPMs for those as well and install them after an rpm2targz conversion, as the 32 bit version of mplayer wouldn't be able to use 64 bit libraries, I'd assume.

I'll try this out again when I get home and see if it works. Thanks.

mrv · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

Please post brief instructions here if you manage to succeed with the 32-bit mplayer. I need to install it also ;-)

-mrv-

Primer · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:

Perhaps I can help. I created the following:

http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/

This is a 32 bit mplayer gentoo package with supporting 32 bit libs, all in a nicely packaged format. I've had a few people test it and it works very well.

The page has explicit instructions on how to set it up, so I won't bore you with the details here.

Please report success or failure here.

Daniel
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Justcim · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 5

I wasn't able to get it to work, kept wanting some other files, don't remember exactly what they were so can't help you there (was a couple hours ago). However, I was able to get a 32-bit mplayer working by following the directions in this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=250235.

Good Luck,
Justcim

Janax · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 162 Location: Iowa

Primer,

Thanks a lot for your work! I tried and may have had the same problem as Justcim (who didn't leave any details), but I was able to get it to work.

The error I was getting was, as far as I can tell, related to wget and ipv6. Here is the actual error message:

Justcim · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 5

Janax,

You are correct, I was getting an error like that one. Started looking around then found that other topic that I posted a link to. I like that solution better because it keeps the 32-bit mplayer away from the rest of my system and I can keep the 64-bit mplayer (you never know may want to use it later). Guess it just boils down to personal preference.

Primer · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

I completely changed this package last night.

Instead of replacing the existing 64 bit mplayer, I decided to create a new package called mplayer32-bin. The idea is still the same: 2 Binary packages, one with mplayer (now called mplayer32-bin) and supporting libs, still called emul-linux-x86-mplayerlibs.

Another change was to re-do dependencies on win32codecs by creating a new package called win32codecs-amd64. This is to avoid having to manually edit the normal win32codecs ebuild simply to add ~amd64 to KEYWORDS, plus to avoid any other confusion with nomenclature.

mrv · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Janax · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 162 Location: Iowa

Primer -

Works great now! I must have been in the middle of trying this for the first time when you were updating. The problems I was having before are gone. By any chance, do you know what might have happened? I thought I was getting close with the 'wget' thing, but obviously that wasn't it...

Primer · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject:

I made the mistake of updating that page as I was developing. I ended up uploading the ebuilds without uploading the newest binary packages. It was a digest mismatch problem and not wget's fault at all. Sorry for the mix up. In the future I won't commit any changes to the site untill everything's fully tested.

Now to start work on a binary mplayerplug-in that spawns mplayer32! Look for that some time tonight (Pacific Time).

Daniel
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Pajarico · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

Primer thanks for everything, now i can watch all the wmv

.

mplayerplugin-32 is another story. I can't see it from Opera (that is 32 bits). The *.so file is there, the path is well set but Opera doesn't detect it.
I think it should work since both apps are 32 bit.

:wink:

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brettlpb · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 197

What all codecs do you lose out on when using 64-bit mplayer? All I hear is "Windows codecs" but can anyone be more specific?

Thanks

Pajarico · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:19 am Post subject:

Primer · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:55 am Post subject:

Pajarico · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your reply.

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JefPober · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 44

Primer you are my hero of the week!!!
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rawoul · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

You're my hero too =)))
I can even play WMV9HD !

lavish · Bodhisattva Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 4296

Thanks Primer! :wink:

<EDIT> I've just created a link to your work on italian forum . We have to spread this ebuild

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NicoEchaniz · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 6

Hi,

I just wanted to report this in cas it's usefull to others.

If I use vo=xv, mplayer32 crashes with error:
...
X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: init_video_codec
...

It works OK if I use vo=x11, vo=gl or vo=gl2

Thanks for your ebuilds !

Nico.