Can anyone play the animatrix movie?

mikepb78 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 171 Location: London

ok well you need to have faad installed and mplayer with all the garnishes.

Faad : http://faac.sourceforge.net/files/faad2-1.1.tar.gz

There seems to be no package in portage for it yet.

You can now play the movie like so :
mplayer -delay -11 detect.mov

But to get away from the mov format and have the audio synced do this :

Do a 2-pass encode to get better quality :
mencoder -fps 23.976 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=160 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=2000:vpass=1 -o detect_640_dl.avi detect_640_dl.mov

mencoder -fps 23.976 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=160 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=2000:vpass=2 -o detect_640_dl.avi detect_640_dl.mov

Strip out the mp3. Unfortunatley mencoder do not do ogg :
mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile stream.mp3 detect_640_dl.avi

Resync the audio :
ogmmerge -o detect_640_dl.ogm -A detect_640_dl.avi -s 10600 stream.mp3

The -s option is in milliseconds. You can play around with that to get it more accurate.

And then you have a nice ogm of the movie

mikepb78 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 171 Location: London

you can get faad like so :
emerge libfaad2

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

There is no libfaad2 ebuild

Any idea how to play the latest Animatrix - A Detective Story with mplayer 0.90 final? It can't play the audio track...

gabor · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:01 pm Post subject:

you need faad....

from http://faac.sourceforge.net download
the faad oct26th source:
http://faac.sourceforge.net/files/faad_src_26102001.zip

(i had no luck with the faad2 source)

unzip , read the README, make , make install.

now:

mplayer -aid 2 -dumpaudio animatrix3.mov
mv stream.dump begin.aac

mplayer -aid 1 -dumpaudio animatrix3.mov
mv stream.dump main.aac

cat begin.aac main.aac > complete.aac

faad complete.aac

mplayer -audiofile complete.wav animatrix.mov

that's all.

p.s: maybe aid2 is the main and aid1 is the beginning, i'm not sure. simply create the wav, and if the sound is not correct, then switch them

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

mikepb78 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 171 Location: London

Playing animatrix or matrix or other Quicktime movies from you harddrive :
Ok i see a couple of people are struggling to get the Matrix and Animatrix trailers and some other Quictime movies to work. The good news is that it is very easy to get to work.

The Simple Install :
[color=red](UPDATE - faad2 is now in portage !!!

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1) Install Faad2, there is no ebuild in portage, but for now you can get one from here.:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17342

You need to copy the faad2-11.ebuild to where your local
portage dir which is set in make.conf ie :

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

Awsome, thanks mikepb78.

Narada · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 300 Location: London, UK

sandcrawler · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:43 pm Post subject: Thanks!!

Just wanted to give a big THANKS out to everyone who has played with this and got it going! Ebuild for faad2 works great and I'm just waiting for mplayer to finish it's work. Hopefully this sharp looking trailer will be much better with the sound

Thanks!!

19kilo

mikepb78 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 171 Location: London

Here is a Howto/Tips for mplayer :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47041

I am looking forward to feedback as i am still working on it.

ghetto · Guru Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 369 Location: BC, Canada

mikepb78 I know its a little cumbersom but for some reason the quality of the movie is WAAAY better when I do it gabor's way by decoding the audio tracks first.

Anyone else experience this?
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mikepb78 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 171 Location: London

Well yes for AAC mpeg audio using faad to convert to mpeg makes a lot of sence. But not all Quicktime movies have ACC Mpeg audio.