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I'm attempting to approach a problem that cropped up a little while ago when I tried to play an HD video in Linux. The problem was that the decoder didn't utilize all the CPUs in my machine, or poorly decoded the video. Regardless, the solution was to use a Windows based decoder called CoreAVC wrapped in a DirectShowServer. The only different is that I am no longer using Xine as I couldn't get it to compile correctly.

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My question comes up when I have the ability to create a debian package. I have done this on my current installation, however, I get a constant message saying that my Mplayer is out of date.I don't know the first thing about debian packages so I was wondering if I would be able to create the Mplayer package in the same fashion that TheeMan does, or atleast in a similar fashion. I have noticed that in the version that I have created the Subtitles support the fonts of the video itself, where as the previous version did not. Once I learn a little more about debian packages, I could possible distribute it to the Ultimate Edition community making it easier to support HD playback. What do you guys think?

not sure if you're trying with hddvd or bluray, but the method used here might be of some help/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Restr ... ayAndHDDVD

Na, these would be fore HD codecs other than those used on HDDVD and BluRay Discs.

maxim wrote:Na, these would be fore HD codecs other than those used on HDDVD and BluRay Discs.

sorry 'bout that. Do you think that maybe just reinstalling mplayer from synaptic would help? Mplayer is a great command line player, but the gui sucks

Nick wrote:Hi Maxim !

This may help....

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

lol... look at my post above... google does similar things sometimes

vinca wrote:

maxim wrote:Na, these would be fore HD codecs other than those used on HDDVD and BluRay Discs.

sorry 'bout that. Do you think that maybe just reinstalling mplayer from synaptic would help? Mplayer is a great command line player, but the gui sucks

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sudo apt-get remove mplayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer-nogui gnome-mplayer

It will make your MPlayer GUI suck less. Trust me.

I'm quite confused by everyone's responses so far. This thread is in regards to building my own Mplayer debian package which would allow support for the CoreAVC software package to be simply "plugged in," and then providing that debian package to the community for download. I've built the debian package, but the version information is where it falls short of expectations, since the package that is created is of an "older" version that is available through the repositories. The reason I ask how it's built is because I would like to build the same version that is available on the repositories, but with the added support of the CoreAVC software. That way anyone who downloads the package will have the same Mplayer that would normal have, but with added support for CoreAVC. Once that is established I can simply rebuild the Mplayer package with each release, and build a debian package for the community for anyone who would like to simply just install instead of compile and build their own custom Mplayer.

maxim wrote:I'm attempting to approach a problem that cropped up a little while ago when I tried to play an HD video in Linux. The problem was that the decoder didn't utilize all the CPUs in my machine, or poorly decoded the video. Regardless, the solution was to use a Windows based decoder called CoreAVC wrapped in a DirectShowServer. The only different is that I am no longer using Xine as I couldn't get it to compile correctly.

The story is all covered here:
http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtop ... f=33&t=893

My question comes up when I have the ability to create a debian package. I have done this on my current installation, however, I get a constant message saying that my Mplayer is out of date.I don't know the first thing about debian packages so I was wondering if I would be able to create the Mplayer package in the same fashion that TheeMan does, or atleast in a similar fashion. I have noticed that in the version that I have created the Subtitles support the fonts of the video itself, where as the previous version did not. Once I learn a little more about debian packages, I could possible distribute it to the Ultimate Edition community making it easier to support HD playback. What do you guys think?

Inside the deb is a folder called DEBIAN, inside the folder is a file called control sudo nano control and change the version # I do not suggest distributing the deb (unless you are the maintainer), but will get you up and going.

Example:

Package: ultimate-edition-themes
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Architecture: i386
Depends:libc6
Version: 0.0.3
Maintainer: TheeMahn <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 579900
Description: Ultimate Edition Themes
All Themes, Logins (GDM), Wallpapers, Icons & Usplashes used in all Ultimate edition releases from 1.3 up.
.
* 3 Ultimate Edition usplashes
* 28 Wallpapers
* 10 GDM logins
* 20 Icon sets
* 62 GTK / Metacity themes
* 12 Emerald themes
* 4 Cursor sets
* 2 Sound schemes
.
For information please visit http://ultamatix.com/.

Any further questions feel free to ask.

TheeMahn

I found through trial and error and searching through the files which ones I needed to change. I've managed to create a debian package that is essentially prepatched for use with CoreAVC in addition to support for the all codec pack available from the mplayer website (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... 07.tar.bz2). In addition I have been able to set the version information so that it's later than the one that's available on the repo. I can also set the dependancies for this package to download all the lirbrary packages needed for the codecs to work. I'm still not sure how well it would work for public use though. I'll have to experiment with it over time.

maxim wrote:I found through trial and error and searching through the files which ones I needed to change. I've managed to create a debian package that is essentially prepatched for use with CoreAVC in addition to support for the all codec pack available from the mplayer website (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... 07.tar.bz2). In addition I have been able to set the version information so that it's later than the one that's available on the repo. I can also set the dependancies for this package to download all the lirbrary packages needed for the codecs to work. I'm still not sure how well it would work for public use though. I'll have to experiment with it over time.

great work, these things are so complicated, and yet only linux can do them. Ultimate Rocks!