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MPlayer asks for video libraries when commanded to play FLAC file!!!

Hi: I do 'mplayer some_flac_file.flac' and then he complains about not finding libfaac.so.0. Absurd. This is a video library. If I had put some video file filename in the command line, I understand. But this seems really odd to me. I downloaded mplayer from Slackbuilds, it compiled perfectly well, and produced a package named MPlayer-1.0rc2-custom-3_SBo.tgz. I installed the package containing the libfaac library, and now he asks for libx264.so.56, another video library. How can this be?

My distribution is 12.0, kernel 2.6.21.5. The MPlayer version I cannot know because 'mplayer --version' only outputs the error message.

you built the MPlayer package on a host with faac, x264 and whatever installed, so its binary linked to those libraries (they are autodetected by configure, you can verify to what's linked with "ldd /usr/bin/mplayer"): to do it short, if you install the resulting tgz on another machine, the packages of the libraries are needed too.

I would never had suspect that. Thanks a lot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by stf92 (Post 4491815)

I built you a MPlayer package for Slackware 12.0, based on quite recent sources (that old slackbuilds.org version is just old). Try it here: http://slackware.com/~alien/test_12.0/

It plays FLAC audio just fine:

Code:

root@qemu12:~/build# mplayer /tmp/808_Cymbal.flac

MPlayer 20110831-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team



Playing /tmp/808_Cymbal.flac.

Audio only file format detected.

Load subtitles in /tmp/

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 288.9 kbit/40.94% (ratio: 36113->88200)

Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio)

==========================================================================

AO: [oss] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Video: no video

Starting playback...

A:  0.6 (00.6) of 0.9 (00.9)  0.1%





Exiting... (End of file)

root@qemu12:~/build#

No additional packages are required.

Eric

It's a dream become reality. Thanks, thanks a lot. I am downloading it now. I always had a problem with mplayer: it played everything well, both audio and video, except CDDA. I'll let LQ readers know about your mplayer's performance playing CDs. Many regards.

This mplayer is playing flac files well. But curiously enough,

Code:

semoi@darkstar:~$ mplayer cdda://1

MPlayer 20110831-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team



Playing cdda://1.

No stream found to handle url cdda://1





Exiting... (End of file)

It's very odd. It really does not matter, because I have other CD players, although with mplayer I could do something like this:

mplayer cdda://3 -ss 9 -endpos 10

This would play from position 9s up to position 9 + 10 = 19s. This I cannot do with any command line CD player that I know.