Mplayer-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 5 Configuration 5.1 Parameter 6 Problems 7 Links

Description

The MPlayer plugin uses MPlayer to play video files other than the recordings. E.g. the famous DivX format can be played using this plugin.

Hardware requirements

• faster hardware (e.g. >1GHz for DivX other formats might be less CPU intensive).

Software requirements

• MPlayer
• several codecs
• Lame
• FFMPEG
• mplayer.sh

Installation

To install lame

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf lame-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd lame-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

FFMPEG

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf ffmpeg-<VERSION>.tar.gz
ln -s ffmpeg-<VERSION> ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
            --enable-shared
make
make install
ldconfig

For MPlayer, see it's documentation and homepage.

See plugin installation.

Configuration

See also mp3-plugin.

MPlayer can work in one of two modes (changeable in the plugin setup)

• Slave (recommended)
• Traditional

If "Traditional" is choosen /usr/local/bin/mplayer.sh.conf has to be altered

# Lirc RC File
LIRCRC="/etc/lircrc.conf"

and MPlayer must be compiled with LIRC support!

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-m CMD	--mount=CMD	use CMD to mount/unmount/eject mp3 sources (default: mount.sh)
-M CMD	--mplayer=CMD	use CMD when calling MPlayer (default: mplayer.sh)

Problems

• MPlayer plays no videos when the first DVB card has no MPEG decoder. Try to alter dev/adapter0 in libvo/vo_mpegpes.c of the MPlayer sources
• If some video are displayed in black and white, it might be your TV doesn't support NTSC. Try to set the NTSC option in /usr/local/bin/mplayer.sh.conf to false.
• Does not work for DVDs and (S)VCDs.

Links

[1]	http://www.muempf.de/index.html	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage	MPlayer homepage
[3]	http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net	FFMPEG homepage
[4]	http://lame.sourceforge.net	Lame homepage
[5]	http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR	Shell script (mplayer.sh)
[6]	http://www.js-home.org/vdr/mplayer-multi/index.php	mplayer-multi