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mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
hello ,
i would like to install mplayer capable of handling https://streams on older computer.
would it be possible for me to compile it on debian squeeze?
can someone here help me?
thanks
richard
i would like to install mplayer capable of handling https://streams on older computer.
would it be possible for me to compile it on debian squeeze?
can someone here help me?
thanks
richard
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Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
You want to install mplayer capable of handling WHAT?
The link you give doesn't work.
The link you give doesn't work.
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Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
The closest that I know of is the 1.2 version in the MEPIS 12 community test repository. MEPIS 12 is based on Wheezy. I have 1.3 backported for Jessie in my OBS multimedia repo http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=127574 ...just because you have an older computer doesn't mean that Jessie or future Debian releases won't run just fine on it. Linux doesn't purposely make older hardware obsolete, unlike some other proprietary operating systems we can all think of.
Anyway, mplayer 1.3 also requires you first build and install ffmpeg >= 3.0, which is a much bigger project...which is why I didn't backport it to a Wheezy base. Not that I probably couldn't have done it with some effort, but we didn't have any demand for a newer version on that platform. FFmpeg 2.7 and mplayer 1.2 were working very nice there already.
Have you ever compiled anything from source, or rebuilt a Debian package from upstream (backporting?) I'd first suggest you get backporting down before you tackle a big project like this on Squeeze, and be prepared for the possibility that some critical foundation package just may not build on Squeeze's gcc 4.6.
Anyway, mplayer 1.3 also requires you first build and install ffmpeg >= 3.0, which is a much bigger project...which is why I didn't backport it to a Wheezy base. Not that I probably couldn't have done it with some effort, but we didn't have any demand for a newer version on that platform. FFmpeg 2.7 and mplayer 1.2 were working very nice there already.
Have you ever compiled anything from source, or rebuilt a Debian package from upstream (backporting?) I'd first suggest you get backporting down before you tackle a big project like this on Squeeze, and be prepared for the possibility that some critical foundation package just may not build on Squeeze's gcc 4.6.
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Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
squeeze? i don't think so.
wheezy? maybe. garry ricketson is using it.
thoughts:
- what exactly do you need to get working that the current version cannot do and why do you think upgrading is the solution?
- a self-contained app like VLC might be easier to install in this case, but it's also heavier on resources.
wheezy? maybe. garry ricketson is using it.
thoughts:
- what exactly do you need to get working that the current version cannot do and why do you think upgrading is the solution?
- a self-contained app like VLC might be easier to install in this case, but it's also heavier on resources.
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
hello ,
thank you very much for your help and answers.
i would need it to play https:// streams via internet and only player that is capable of atm that i know of for older systems is mpv
- so i use youtube-viewer plus mpv to access youtube ;
starting with stretch i found out on older imac g5 running xenial lubuntu that mplayer is available that allows to playback https://streams.
so my hope was to be able to compile it for older computer using debian squeeze / youtube-viewer / mplayer - possibly also on powerpc.
thank you very much for your help and answers.
i would need it to play https:// streams via internet and only player that is capable of atm that i know of for older systems is mpv
- so i use youtube-viewer plus mpv to access youtube ;
starting with stretch i found out on older imac g5 running xenial lubuntu that mplayer is available that allows to playback https://streams.
so my hope was to be able to compile it for older computer using debian squeeze / youtube-viewer / mplayer - possibly also on powerpc.
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
sorry but i don't know how to this atm, only thing i did is to build mpv on wheezy using helper scripts (mpv-build) and i also built it on debian squeeze some time ago (was kinda unstable then; on macmini2,1) and compiled also kodi for powerpc or amd64 using the descriptions on their website.stevepusser wrote:
Have you ever compiled anything from source, or rebuilt a Debian package from upstream (backporting?) I'd first suggest you get backporting down before you tackle a big project like this on Squeeze, and be prepared for the possibility that some critical foundation package just may not build on Squeeze's gcc 4.6.
kodi for powerpc is difficult because compiler for it on debian is very old when compared to debian amd64, sadly.
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
"playing https streams" is a very unprecise thing to say.
what exactly is the stream? is it audio, video, something else?
and what exactly is not working? please show us commands entered & output received.
also, mpv and mplayer and mplayer2 are different projects; while they are related, don't mistake one for the other.
what exactly is the stream? is it audio, video, something else?
and what exactly is not working? please show us commands entered & output received.
also, mpv and mplayer and mplayer2 are different projects; while they are related, don't mistake one for the other.
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
from what i know, everything on youtube is video, with or withouth audio underlined,
so it should playback the video file, and since nowadays it streams via https:// protocol ,
earlier mplayer versions, that use to function with youtube-viewer , were no longer compatible;
newer versions are, have that experienced myself.
yes, there are differences in those players,
and from my experience, mpv is most effiecent, maybe comparable to coreplayer on osx powerpc.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
so it should playback the video file, and since nowadays it streams via https:// protocol ,
earlier mplayer versions, that use to function with youtube-viewer , were no longer compatible;
newer versions are, have that experienced myself.
yes, there are differences in those players,
and from my experience, mpv is most effiecent, maybe comparable to coreplayer on osx powerpc.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
are you sure it's about https and not something else?
still waiting for that output!
youtube are constantly chnging their api, and solutions that worked on wheezy definitely won't work anymore.
i suspect that is the problem you're having.
it will be really, really difficult to solv this under wheezy or, heavens, even squeeze!
still waiting for that output!
youtube are constantly chnging their api, and solutions that worked on wheezy definitely won't work anymore.
i suspect that is the problem you're having.
it will be really, really difficult to solv this under wheezy or, heavens, even squeeze!
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Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
I have to ask again, since you really don't have any experience in building software, what's wrong with a light desktop install of Jessie/Jessie-based distro and then adding my backports multimedia repo to get mplayer 1.3? If you like mpv, I also have the current 0.25 version in there.
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Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
mrkapqa wrote:
2017-05-17
[...]
squeeze
Debian GNU/Linux 9 Stretch w/Openbox
Acer Aspire E5-521G
AMD A8-6410 APU
4 GB RAM
integrated AMD Mullins
dedicated AMD Hainan Radeon R5 M240 2 GB
240 GB Toshiba Q300 SSD
Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 ethernet
Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 wireless
Acer Aspire E5-521G
AMD A8-6410 APU
4 GB RAM
integrated AMD Mullins
dedicated AMD Hainan Radeon R5 M240 2 GB
240 GB Toshiba Q300 SSD
Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 ethernet
Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 wireless
Re: mplayer 1.3 on debian squeeze / wheezy
mrkapqa wrote:from what i know, everything on youtube is video, with or withouth audio underlined,
so it should playback the video file, and since nowadays it streams via https:// protocol ,
earlier mplayer versions, that use to function with youtube-viewer , were no longer compatible;
VLC can play YouTube network streams though. I'm sure it will be better for your case since you're on an old version of Debian (old oldstable) and compiling a newer version of mplayer will be a pain and you may even break your system in the process. To do this you need to open a "network stream" in VLC (Media > Open Network Stream; C-N) and paste the stream URL in the box and you can just start playing it. Be warned though, VLC will choose the best quality for the video and will not let you adjust it (afaik).debiman wrote: - a self-contained app like VLC might be easier to install in this case, but it's also heavier on resources.
If you're so keen on playing YouTube not in a browser (for whatever reasons), did it ever occur to you that you can use youtube-dl? Just copy the video URL, download it in /tmp (since you just want to stream, not download for offline use) and play it using VLC or whatever. The upside here is that you can choose the quality of the video with youtube-dl and can potentially save bandwidth this way. For example if I want to download a certain video in a certain format (480p in this example) then:
Code: Select all
$ youtube-dl -F youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vriq0_A_D_c
...
format code extension resolution note
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 48k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz), 3.00MiB
249 webm audio only DASH audio 75k , opus @ 50k, 3.71MiB
250 webm audio only DASH audio 107k , opus @ 70k, 5.28MiB
171 webm audio only DASH audio 114k , vorbis@128k, 5.89MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 8.00MiB
251 webm audio only DASH audio 187k , opus @160k, 9.55MiB
278 webm 256x144 144p 101k , webm container, vp9, 12fps, video only, 4.59MiB
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 117k , avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only, 6.86MiB
242 webm 426x240 240p 227k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 7.57MiB
133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 273k , avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only, 15.54MiB
243 webm 640x360 360p 378k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 13.22MiB
134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 405k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 14.90MiB
244 webm 854x480 480p 703k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 21.04MiB
135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 813k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 29.30MiB
247 webm 1280x720 720p 1414k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 40.73MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 1583k , avc1.4d401f, 24fps, video only, 54.78MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2520k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 78.16MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 2915k , avc1.640028, 24fps, video only, 99.16MiB
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k
18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
$ youtube-dl -f 244+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vriq0_A_D_c
...
Hope this helped.
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