[gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg.  Am I right in 
assuming that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?

Re: [gentoo-user] Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg.  Am I right in assuming
> that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?

It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own
internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*.

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>> I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg.  Am I right in assuming
>> that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?
>
> It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own
> internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*.

And I suppose there's no way to change that?  I was trying to create an 
ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed 
up playback of full HD video.  This is quite popular in the Windows 
world (most Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by 
using ffmpeg-mt).  There are also debs and RPMs for this floating 
around.  But nothing for Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm 
not sure how to do it.  Bundled libs were always a pain in the bum...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg.  Am I right in assuming
>>> that mplayer on Gentoo uses its own, bundled ffmpeg?
>>
>> It looks to me like that is correct, it appears to be using its own
>> internal copy of ffmpeg's libav*.
>
> And I suppose there's no way to change that?  I was trying to create an
> ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up
> playback of full HD video.  This is quite popular in the Windows world (most
> Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt).
>  There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around.  But nothing for
> Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it.  Bundled
> libs were always a pain in the bum...

check out this site:

http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5&topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mt&lang=en

He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the
comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent
versions).

Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt
code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though:
http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>  [...]
>> And I suppose there's no way to change that?  I was trying to create an
>> ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up
>> playback of full HD video.  This is quite popular in the Windows world (most
>> Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt).
>>   There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around.  But nothing for
>> Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it.  Bundled
>> libs were always a pain in the bum...
>
> check out this site:
>
> http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5&topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mt&lang=en
>
> He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the
> comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent
> versions).
>
> Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt
> code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though:
> http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2

I rolled my own and it works very nicely :)

If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed 
files:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>>  [...]
>>> And I suppose there's no way to change that?  I was trying to create an
>>> ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed
>>> up
>>> playback of full HD video.  This is quite popular in the Windows world
>>> (most
>>> Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt).
>>>  There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around.  But nothing for
>>> Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it.
>>>  Bundled
>>> libs were always a pain in the bum...
>>
>> check out this site:
>>
>>
>> http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5&topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mt&lang=en
>>
>> He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the
>> comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent
>> versions).
>>
>> Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt
>> code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though:
>> http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2
>
> I rolled my own and it works very nicely :)
>
> If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed
> files:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154

I'll give it a try. Thanks!

[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

[]

> 
> I rolled my own and it works very nicely :)
> 
> If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed 
> files:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154
> 
> 
> 
This worked fine on my core I7 (hardened) box.  Thank You