Slackware64 13.37 mplayer vdapu

[Danno]

Just a quick post in case someone else is searching for an answer on
compiling mplayer in 64 bits with vdpau support. I'm using
Slackware64-13.37, nVidia 295.33 blob on an Atom330 CPU, Zotac ZT-50610-10L
PCI video card.

Compiled mplayer-export today (April 03-2012) with vdpau support. Was
getting errors regarding vdpau when I tried to make it. Once you
successfully configure mplayer with vdpau ( --enable-vdpau ) and
attempt to make it, it will clone ffmpeg from the git repository and
eventually fail, looking for vdpau.h

Grab vdpau.h & vdpau_x11.h from nVidia's ftp site
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/include/vdpau/vdpau.h
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/include/vdpau/vdpau_x11.h

and make a directory inside the ffmpeg directory within the mplayer
source, call it vdpau
mkdir /-YourMplayerSourceDirectory-/ffmpeg/vdpau

then copy those two vdpau files into the directory. Now
make clean
make
should get you through any issues with vdpau. I have only tested it
against x264, Xvid, mp3, ac3, and aac codecs so far, but seems to work as
well as ever.




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[andrew]

On 2012-04-03, Danno <Whoa...@MySecretPlace.org> wrote:

> Just a quick post in case someone else is searching for an answer on
> compiling mplayer in 64 bits with vdpau support.

Mind you perhaps an easier way is to visit slackbuilds.org and install
the appropriate NVidia driver + kernel packages as well as libvdpau.
Then simply download the svn MPlayer, allow it to download a git FFmpeg,
and then MPlayer will automagically pick up the vdpau libraries. This
works well enough on my 64bit system.

Andrew
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[Danno]

Well, it is certainly *another* way. It sounds equally complicated (or
trivially different) to me, but whatever works, works for me...

When I ran the 295.33 installer from nVidia, it also built all the
libvdpau* libraries and installed them in /usr/lib. Based on what I'm
reading in Slackbuilds descriptions, these are those. So AFAIK, I already
had the kernel module, xorg driver, and libraries in place. But when
mplayer grabbed ffmpeg during the build, it was looking for the
aforementioned vdpau code specifically in /mplayer/ffmpeg/vdpau/ How
recently is your mplayer build? I wonder if I just grabbed the code at an
inopportune time...

[Dan C]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:59:53 -0600, Danno wrote:

> Well, it is certainly *another* way. It sounds equally complicated (or
> trivially different) to me, but whatever works, works for me...

A: Because it destroys the logical flow of a thread of comments,
and makes it difficult to keep up with a conversation.

Q: Why do so many people object to top posting?

A: Writing your reply to a message above what you are referring to
rather than below it.

Q: What is "top posting"?


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[andrew]

On 2012-04-04, Danno <Whoa...@MySecretPlace.org> wrote:

> How recently is your mplayer build? I wonder if I just grabbed the
> code at an inopportune time...

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer | head -n 1
MPlayer SVN-r34837-4.7.0 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

[Danno]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:27 +1000
andrew <and...@skamandros.invalid> wrote:

> On 2012-04-04, Danno <Whoa...@MySecretPlace.org> wrote:
>
> > How recently is your mplayer build? I wonder if I just grabbed the
> > code at an inopportune time...
>
> andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer | head -n 1
> MPlayer SVN-r34837-4.7.0 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
>

mplayer | head -n 1

MPlayer SVN-r34846-snapshot-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

built today (Apr03-2012) against a git FFMPEG. Don't know enough about it
to determine the difference in our experiences compiling it, don't suppose
it really matters.
Thanks.