[gentoo-user] totem and mplayer fail on acm turing lecture

[gentoo-user] totem and mplayer fail on acm turing lecture

[Allan Gottlieb]

I am trying to view
http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov

totem complains that I don't have the necessary codecs
(MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
(MPEG-4 Video decoder)

I thought I set the right use flags, but presumably not

ajglap gottlieb # eix totem
[I] media-video/totem
     Available versions:  2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 [M]~2.20.0 {a52 bluetooth dbus debug dvd ffmpeg firefox flac galago gnome hal lirc mad mpeg nsplugin nvtv ogg python seamonkey theora vorbis xine xulrunner xv}
     Installed versions:  2.18.3(12:24:34 10/13/07)(a52 -debug dvd -ffmpeg -flac gnome hal -lirc -mad mpeg nsplugin -nvtv ogg -seamonkey -theora vorbis -xulrunner -xv)
     Homepage:            http://gnome.org/projects/totem/
     Description:         Media player for GNOME


The full output from totem is 

gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ totem !$
totem http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov

(totem:14582): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_link_prepare: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (srcpad)' failed

(totem:14582): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_link_prepare: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (srcpad)' failed

(totem:14582): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_link_prepare: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (srcpad)' failed

(totem:14582): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_link_prepare: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (srcpad)' failed
** Message: don't know how to handle video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, systemstream=(boolean)false
** Message: don't know how to handle audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, codec_data=(buffer)1210
** Message: Error: You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.
gstplaybasebin.c(2215): prepare_output (): /play

** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer.net|0.10|totem|MPEG-4 AAC decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4 (MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer.net|0.10|totem|MPEG-4 Video decoder|decoder-video/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, systemstream=(boolean)false (MPEG-4 Video decoder)
** Message: Automatic missing codec installation not supported (helper script missing)

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mplayer seemed to have trouble connecting

gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ mplayer http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.movMPlayer SVN-r24130 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Playing http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov.
Resolving www.acm.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.acm.org
Resolving www.acm.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.acm.org[63.118.7.35]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.07% (243 bytes)   
MOV: Reference Media file!!!
MOV: Reference Media file!!!


Playing rtsp://vstream.acm.org/TuringAward/2006/FranAllen56K.mp4.
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: vstream.acm.org
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server vstream.acm.org[63.118.7.25]: 554...
A single media stream only is supported atm.
rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'DSS/5.5 (Build/489.7; Platform/Linux; Release/Darwin; )'.
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: vstream.acm.org
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server vstream.acm.org[63.118.7.24]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.02% (67 bytes)   


Playing rtsp://vstream.acm.org/TuringAward/2006/FranAllen768K.mp4.
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: vstream.acm.org
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server vstream.acm.org[63.118.7.25]: 554...
A single media stream only is supported atm.
rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'DSS/5.5 (Build/489.7; Platform/Linux; Release/Darwin; )'.
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: vstream.acm.org
Resolving vstream.acm.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server vstream.acm.org[63.118.7.25]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable
Cache fill:  0.02% (67 bytes)   


Exiting... (End of file)

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
allan
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