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felixo
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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: Proper mplayer install procedure? |
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Hello, I just finished my gentoo install and got everything working. I was about to emerge mplayer, but I would like to know in what order I need to do them. I know I need quite a few many video codec files, and I recall when I installed mplayer from scratch, that it was silly and tedious.
I just want to make sure I do it correctly, so if you have done this please advise!! Thanks. |
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codergeek42
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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All you need to do is | Code: | | # USE="<your flags here>" emerge mplayer |
Portage will take care of downloading, compiling, and installing anything necessary.
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felixo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| does this include the five billion different sound/video codecs I need to install? Divx, quicktime, etc?? |
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Neodraco
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, if you set the appropiate USE flags:
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hannibal root # emerge mplayer -uDvp
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/xvid-1.0.2 -doc 528 kB
[ebuild N ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre4-r7 -3dfx +3dnow +3dnowex +X -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi +cdparanoia -debug -directfb -divx4linux -dvb +dvd -dvdread -edl -encode -esd -fbcon -ggi +gif -gnome -gtk -ipv6 -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -mad -matroska -matrox +mmx +mmx2 -mpeg -mythtv -nas -network +nls +oggvorbis +opengl -oss +png +real -rtc -samba -sdl +sse -svga -tga +theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 -xinerama -xmms -xv +xvid 5,243 kB
Total size of downloads: 5,772 kB
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Note: you don't need divx4linux to see divx videos, they are handled with another library that decodes all mpeg4 videos (including MS-MPEG, xvid, dix, ect). can't remember it's name right now.
You can take a look too /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc or use UFED (emerge ufed) for a fairly short and usually not very much informative description of the USE flag in question 
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beandog
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Im not sure those are quite all the right use flags...
With -mpeg I dunno what will be missing. With -encode you won't get mencoder, and -divx4linux I'm guessing you can't encode to divx4/5 but dont know about playing.
And be sure to add +network so you can play stuff over the Internet.
If you really wanna be tweaky, add -gif, -png and -jpeg since most people probably don't encode/decode to/from images, and save yourself 30 seconds of compile time or something. 
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