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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:38:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <339972aa-689f-50ba-d52d-cefc4301c88f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpa43u$13oe$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2025-02-21, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM -0000 schrieb Grant Edwards:
>>>> On 2025-02-20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess
>>>>>> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded.
>>>>> I'm getting some help off list from another Michael.  O_O  He suggested
>>>>> several USE flag changes. Some I never heard of.
>>>> Ask ffmpeg what's in the file.  Then you'll _know_ what encoder(s)
>>>> were used and what USE flags you need.
>>> The command to just get file information is ffprobe. Its output is
>>> very dense. I recommend mediainfo for a more human-friendly
>>> output. It also comes with an optional GUI.
>> The other Michael asked for ffprobe info, off list.
> He's right, that's what you need to do (or something equivalent) so
> that you know what codec you're missing.
>
>> I enabled some USE flags and tried to recompile with those.  It
>> failed on some, again.  I'm giving it another go now. 
> So are you trying to figure out why you can't play those .mkv files,
> or just trying to get mplayer to build?  I'll once again point out
> that mplayer seems to by dying (hasn't had a new version released in 3
> years). Most users seem to have moved to mpv.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MPlayer:
>
>  Note
>  
>  MPlayer is not very actively maintained anymore, but still
>  alive. However, its fork MPV is active and it comes with some extra
>  features too.
>
> --
> Grant
>
>
>


Well, Micheal helped me with USE flags.  I needed some that I had no
idea about.  Some related to hardware I have, or think I have since they
may be to old.  Some related to Vulkan.  Anyway, after a lot of fiddling
with USE flags, I still can't get gpac and mplayer to rebuild.  I think
it may just be a bug that needs to be worked on but the output is not
something I can figure out.  Funny thing is, despite gpac and mplayer
not being able to build and put the changes into effect, the videos now
play just fine.  I suspect that at some point those bugs will be dealt
with and they will build.  In the meantime I can play the videos at
least.  I just don't have a clean output of emerge -auDN world is all. 

For a long time, I think Smplayer depended on mplayer.  I've had times
where Smplayer wouldn't play videos using mplayer so I went into
preferences and changed it to use mpv.  It seems to work just fine so
unless something breaks, I'll leave it set to mpv.  I guess I keep
mplayer around just in case something pops up and I need it.  I'm not
sure what if anything actually needs it other than me just letting it
sit there, just in case. 

If anyone has a idea on the original failure of gpac and mplayer, I'm
open to test something to see if it works.  Otherwise, maybe when I sync
Sunday morning it will have a fix.  If not, maybe it will the next
week.  One can hope.  ;-)  They are unstable packages so failing to
build isn't surprising really.  Most unstable packages do work fine but
every once in a while, one fails.  They do eventually get worked out.  I
just don't know if I should file a bug or if it is something related to
me and what I'm doing. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 


  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-21 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-20 18:00 [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build Dale
2025-02-20 18:14 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:23   ` Dale
2025-02-20 18:35     ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:38       ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 19:06         ` Dale
2025-02-20 21:35           ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 18:59   ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 23:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 21:42 ` Michael Cook
2025-02-20 22:03   ` Dale
2025-02-20 23:36     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-21  0:05       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-21  8:06         ` Dale
2025-02-21 14:54           ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 15:38             ` Dale [this message]
2025-02-21 23:59               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-22 13:35                 ` Dale
2025-02-22 22:42                   ` Dale
2025-02-23  1:34                     ` David M. Fellows
2025-02-23  7:53                       ` Dale
2025-02-23  8:23                         ` Michael
2025-02-23 10:21                           ` Dale
2025-02-23 12:54                             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-23 18:46                             ` Michael

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