Compiling MPlayer on the Zaurus

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Compiling MPlayer on the Zaurus Taken from http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/mplayer.html

compilation: I reccomend compiling it on Z, but that is not neccesary. Reason: ./configure doesn't detect random things. (using dev_img1.3 from sourceforge zaurus site, mounted at /mnt/dev and setup with compiler_setup.sh see the sourceforge site for more info on that (NEED TO PUT LINK HERE)) This requires some sort of expanded storage either via nfs/network or expansion cards because after compiling the MPlayer direcory was 25.something megs large, and the development image takes up about 16. I assume you know what you are doing generally and have the terminal,etc. installed.

Trip-ups: PATH must be set up with (if adding /mnt/dev/bin to $PATH) /mnt/dev/bin before /usr/bin, because busybox's ar doesn't work for compiling mplayer. example: export PATH=/mnt/dev/bin:$PATH

Step 1:

unbzip2it - on another computer (Zaurus doesn't have bzip2 by default) and gzip it. or grab this:

http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.gz -Please download this only if you have a zaurus and no access to another computer.

(This is correctable now, see ZaurusZone's feed http://www.zauruszone.com/feed) (broken link)

Step 2:

transfer it to zaurus, doesn't matter how.

Step 3:

edit configure script.

delete/comment out everything between "echocheck "pthread"" to "echores "yes (using $_ld_pthread)"" (lines 1571-1595) and add in that space "_ld_pthread='-Llpthread'" (without the double quotes)

Step 4:

./configure --disable-gcc-checking --disable-mencoder

(If someone can get --enable-mad and libmad working, please email me)

libmad should now work with mplayer. Unfortunately I haven't gotten it working yet, and it will be about 2 weeks before I get my zaurus back, so check back at least by then.

Step 5:

make

Step 7:

mkdir ~/.mplayer

cp ./etc/codecs.conf ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf

then edit the file and remove the sections to the empty line of "audiocodec mp3" and "audiocodec mad"

Step 6:

./mplayer -quiet -framedrop samplemovie.whatever

it should play the sample movie. you may very well need more options. If it is slow or something add "-vop list=resample,format:fout=44100" If this doesn't work read the docs about sound especially and play around. This information put up in the hope that it helps someone, but I don't make any promises,etc about it working, just what worked for me.

Additional notes:

People have reported that SDL can be used, and there is almost no difference in speed of video and improved audio (as in no more messing with -aop list...) Also with sdl, subtitles can be displayed, if fonts are in ~/.mplayer (the std location, see the DOCS.http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS (Credit goes to Adam.B@gmx.de)

Lazy people:

binary that may or may not work. (it works on my Z, but I may have some extra configs you don't), try grabbing it and putting mplayer in /usr/local/bin and put codecs.conf in ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf mplayer here http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/mplayer Not an ipk, just the binary for now

The configure script as modified here: http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/configure

The codecs.conf file here: http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/codecs.conf