This is my first "bug" entry so I'm a little new at this. I installed Gentoo on a friends machine yesterday. He has a Emachine 3025 that has a NVIDIA chipset and a NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Video Card. Here is the issue... I emerged the mozilla-firefox-bin 1.5, mplayer, and the mplayer plugin. Mplayer will work fine from a terminal (example - mplayer http://www.site.com/video.mpeg) but in Firefox if I go to watch any kind of format video, mplayer loads in to 99% and just hangs, I can't even get it to play by forcing it. Now, if I save that video to my desktop, then play it with Mplayer it will play the video but I get the error message.. "failed to open /root/.mplayer/default.sub" I have googled the hell out of this issue and can't find any fixes on this. I have unemerged and re-emerged firefox, mplayer, and mplayer plugin. Still didnt work. I have tried configuring the mplayer plugin config file every which way I can, nothing works. I have set my "vo" and "ao" in the config files correctly. Do you have any ideas?
Found another issue with this... when I was using mplayer from command line to play a movie I was using and older quicktime video link off a "how to install mplayer" website. When I actually go to put a new trailer in like the new Superman trailer it will not play sound at all but the older quicktime link will. here is my emerge --info.... Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups dri dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
HA! another error messages. I took a new trailer link and saved the file to my desktop, played it, and it will play the video and still no sound, but I get this error message... "cannot find codec audio format 0x6134706D" I didn't the other error message from before when I played a video from my desktop. just FYI. thanks.
i got some resolution on this issue. Another person having the same issue with the .mplayer/default.sub error message...here is their solution touch /.mplayer/default.sub just created the default.sub file and it worked. I don't get that error message anymore. I still however am not gettin any sound from quicktime videos, at least the newer quicktime videos. I'll keep working at it though. Is there anyone actually working on this "bug"? I feel alone.
Alright then! I found out that MPlayer developers know of the quicktime issues and they have released a new version of Mplayer 1.0pre8 and it is to fix the quicktime issues. So...when is Gentoo going to have this available in the portage?
It is available.
