[OpenIndiana-discuss] a MP4 media player which works on openindiana ?

Mario Marietto marietto2008 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 23:28:31 UTC 2021


wow mehmet ? can u explain please ?

Il dom 24 ott 2021, 00:36 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> ffplay of FFmpeg is mentioned as able to play  MP4 in the following page :
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_player_software
> Comparison of video player software
>
> under parts of
>
> Consumer video format ability
> Container format ability
>
> I am not a user of Open Indiana at present . Therefore I am not able to say
> that  the ffplay in FFmpeg can play your MP4 files .
>
> Another unfortunate situation at present is my broken Linux ( Fedora )
> installations due to a failing hard disk and installation of a different
> Linux
> ( Fedora ) version . Because of this I could not be able to  run  the
> ffplay program due to a library mismatch .
>
> My opinion is that if you try   ffplay  in FFmpeg directly on your  system
> it will be able to play your  MP4  files .
> Please be careful about command line parameters of  the  ffplay  program .
>
>
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:21 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > root at openindiana:~# pkg install audio/faad2
> > No updates necessary for this image.
> >
> > I'm not able to play the video well with vlc. Can someone explain how to
> > install smplayer ? (better if mplayer + frontend) Maybe I am more lucky
> > with it.
> >
> > Il giorno ven 22 ott 2021 alle ore 22:29 Tim Mooney via
> openindiana-discuss
> > <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a MP4 media player which works
> > > on...:
> > >
> > > > root at openindiana:~# pkg install library/audio/gstreamer1/plugin/bad
> > > > root at openindiana:~# pkg install library/audio/gstreamer1/plugin/ugly
> > > > root at openindiana:~# pkg install
> library/audio/gstreamer1/plugin/libav
> > >
> > > Those three are plugins for the Gstreamer 1.x interface
> > >
> > > > root at openindiana:~# pkg install
> library/audio/gstreamer/plugin/ffmpeg
> > >
> > > I think that one is still for the original Gstreamer 0.10.x interface.
> > >
> > > OI has both, so unfortunately right now you need to know which of them
> > > the media application (rhythmbox, totem, etc.) is linked against.
> > >
> > > totem appears to be linked against the older gstreamer 0.10.x
> interface:
> > >
> > > $ ldd /usr/bin/totem | egrep -i gstreamer
> > >          libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 => /usr/lib/64/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
> > >
> > > rhythmbox is linked against gstreamer 1.x:
> > >
> > > $ ldd /usr/bin/rhythmbox | egrep -i gstreamer
> > >          libgstreamer-1.0.so.0 =>
> >  /usr/lib/64/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
> > >
> > > vlc doesn't use gstreamer at all:
> > >
> > > $ ldd /usr/bin/vlc | egrep -i gstreamer
> > >
> > >
> > > Since vlc isn't linked against gstreamer, the gstreamer plugins you
> > > installed won't help vlc play additional formats.
> > >
> > > The plugins you installed *might* help Rhythmbox, though, so I would
> > > give that another try to see if it can play it now.
> > >
> > > If you want to try get it working with vlc, then based on the VLC wiki
> > > article on AAC:
> > >
> > >         https://wiki.videolan.org/Advanced+Audio+Coding
> > >
> > > It says:
> > >
> > >         VLC supports AAC and HE-AAC through the libraries libfaad and
> > >         libavcodec.
> > >
> > > Knowing that vlc wants libfaad, and then browsing the packages in
> > > hipster-encumbered via
> > >
> > >         http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered/en/catalog.shtml
> > >
> > > I think your best option is to try installing
> > >
> > >         audio/faad2
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > --
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> > Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu
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