[users] the new mplayer for el5

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
system:
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
With the previous version:
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.

It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.
It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Yes, a new build has been made. Please verify if this fixes the problem
for you !

Post by Alfred Ganz
Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

You're welcome :)

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have tried the next version of mplayer:
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
wants to use -fontconfig, mplayer complains with this:
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!

Making progress!

Thanks for your help, AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1012071656090.10450 at pikachu.3ti.be>

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...
The currently working version (mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf)
does rely on libfontconfig.so.1, building without it would be a major
downgrade, so I think if mplayer is updated from 1.0-0.43 it needs
fontconfig support somehow.

RHEL5 provides fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5, is it potentially possible to
build the new mplayer with that, ugly I know, but
http://fontconfig.org/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2
doesn't seem to indicate any major changes against 2.4.1, but mainly
bugfixes (bugs with which current users of mplayer had to live with!).
Note also that even fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc14 provides the same library
(libfontconfig.so.1) as fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.

Thanks for working on this! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Yury V. Zaytsev

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.

- configure found a version < 2.4.2 and did not add -lfontconfig to
LD_FLAGS, even when explicitely enabling fontconfig support

- after fixing the above, there was one remaining undefined reference in
the build (and not in libfontconfig) which is due to a change between
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (in fact the lack of that reference was a bug)

undefined reference to `FcFreeTypeQueryFace'

- I noticed that this reference was due to the internal SSA (subtitle)
implementation and since we have libssa for RHEL6 and RHEL5 I disabled
the internal SSA implementation. (--disable-ssa --disable-internal-ssa)

And that works... Please verify !

However, fontconfig is disabled on RHEL4 and RHEL3 unless we somehow can
fix the internal SSA implementation to not use FcFreeTypeQueryFace or have
a libssa build.

PS I thought this would be the last mplayer change needed, until I noticed
during tests that an mpeg2 stream (created from DVB in kaffeine) was not
playable with mplayer. (It did work in smplayer, but not very fluently)
Sigh...

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Yury V. Zaytsev

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.

- configure found a version < 2.4.2 and did not add -lfontconfig to
LD_FLAGS, even when explicitely enabling fontconfig support

- after fixing the above, there was one remaining undefined reference in
the build (and not in libfontconfig) which is due to a change between
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (in fact the lack of that reference was a bug)

undefined reference to `FcFreeTypeQueryFace'

- I noticed that this reference was due to the internal SSA (subtitle)
implementation and since we have libssa for RHEL6 and RHEL5 I disabled
the internal SSA implementation. (--disable-ssa --disable-internal-ssa)

And that works... Please verify !

However, fontconfig is disabled on RHEL4 and RHEL3 unless we somehow can
fix the internal SSA implementation to not use FcFreeTypeQueryFace or have
a libssa build.

PS I thought this would be the last mplayer change needed, until I noticed
during tests that an mpeg2 stream (created from DVB in kaffeine) was not
playable with mplayer. (It did work in smplayer, but not very fluently)
Sigh...

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Yury V. Zaytsev

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.

- configure found a version < 2.4.2 and did not add -lfontconfig to
LD_FLAGS, even when explicitely enabling fontconfig support

- after fixing the above, there was one remaining undefined reference in
the build (and not in libfontconfig) which is due to a change between
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (in fact the lack of that reference was a bug)

undefined reference to `FcFreeTypeQueryFace'

- I noticed that this reference was due to the internal SSA (subtitle)
implementation and since we have libssa for RHEL6 and RHEL5 I disabled
the internal SSA implementation. (--disable-ssa --disable-internal-ssa)

And that works... Please verify !

However, fontconfig is disabled on RHEL4 and RHEL3 unless we somehow can
fix the internal SSA implementation to not use FcFreeTypeQueryFace or have
a libssa build.

PS I thought this would be the last mplayer change needed, until I noticed
during tests that an mpeg2 stream (created from DVB in kaffeine) was not
playable with mplayer. (It did work in smplayer, but not very fluently)
Sigh...

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Yury V. Zaytsev

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.

- configure found a version < 2.4.2 and did not add -lfontconfig to
LD_FLAGS, even when explicitely enabling fontconfig support

- after fixing the above, there was one remaining undefined reference in
the build (and not in libfontconfig) which is due to a change between
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (in fact the lack of that reference was a bug)

undefined reference to `FcFreeTypeQueryFace'

- I noticed that this reference was due to the internal SSA (subtitle)
implementation and since we have libssa for RHEL6 and RHEL5 I disabled
the internal SSA implementation. (--disable-ssa --disable-internal-ssa)

And that works... Please verify !

However, fontconfig is disabled on RHEL4 and RHEL3 unless we somehow can
fix the internal SSA implementation to not use FcFreeTypeQueryFace or have
a libssa build.

PS I thought this would be the last mplayer change needed, until I noticed
during tests that an mpeg2 stream (created from DVB in kaffeine) was not
playable with mplayer. (It did work in smplayer, but not very fluently)
Sigh...

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Yury V. Zaytsev

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.

- configure found a version < 2.4.2 and did not add -lfontconfig to
LD_FLAGS, even when explicitely enabling fontconfig support

- after fixing the above, there was one remaining undefined reference in
the build (and not in libfontconfig) which is due to a change between
2.4.1 and 2.4.2 (in fact the lack of that reference was a bug)

undefined reference to `FcFreeTypeQueryFace'

- I noticed that this reference was due to the internal SSA (subtitle)
implementation and since we have libssa for RHEL6 and RHEL5 I disabled
the internal SSA implementation. (--disable-ssa --disable-internal-ssa)

And that works... Please verify !

However, fontconfig is disabled on RHEL4 and RHEL3 unless we somehow can
fix the internal SSA implementation to not use FcFreeTypeQueryFace or have
a libssa build.

PS I thought this would be the last mplayer change needed, until I noticed
during tests that an mpeg2 stream (created from DVB in kaffeine) was not
playable with mplayer. (It did work in smplayer, but not very fluently)
Sigh...

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1012071656090.10450 at pikachu.3ti.be>

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...
The currently working version (mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf)
does rely on libfontconfig.so.1, building without it would be a major
downgrade, so I think if mplayer is updated from 1.0-0.43 it needs
fontconfig support somehow.

RHEL5 provides fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5, is it potentially possible to
build the new mplayer with that, ugly I know, but
http://fontconfig.org/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2
doesn't seem to indicate any major changes against 2.4.1, but mainly
bugfixes (bugs with which current users of mplayer had to live with!).
Note also that even fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc14 provides the same library
(libfontconfig.so.1) as fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.

Thanks for working on this! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1012071656090.10450 at pikachu.3ti.be>

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...
The currently working version (mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf)
does rely on libfontconfig.so.1, building without it would be a major
downgrade, so I think if mplayer is updated from 1.0-0.43 it needs
fontconfig support somehow.

RHEL5 provides fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5, is it potentially possible to
build the new mplayer with that, ugly I know, but
http://fontconfig.org/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2
doesn't seem to indicate any major changes against 2.4.1, but mainly
bugfixes (bugs with which current users of mplayer had to live with!).
Note also that even fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc14 provides the same library
(libfontconfig.so.1) as fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.

Thanks for working on this! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1012071656090.10450 at pikachu.3ti.be>

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...
The currently working version (mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf)
does rely on libfontconfig.so.1, building without it would be a major
downgrade, so I think if mplayer is updated from 1.0-0.43 it needs
fontconfig support somehow.

RHEL5 provides fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5, is it potentially possible to
build the new mplayer with that, ugly I know, but
http://fontconfig.org/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2
doesn't seem to indicate any major changes against 2.4.1, but mainly
bugfixes (bugs with which current users of mplayer had to live with!).
Note also that even fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc14 provides the same library
(libfontconfig.so.1) as fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.

Thanks for working on this! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1012071656090.10450 at pikachu.3ti.be>

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...
The currently working version (mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf)
does rely on libfontconfig.so.1, building without it would be a major
downgrade, so I think if mplayer is updated from 1.0-0.43 it needs
fontconfig support somehow.

RHEL5 provides fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5, is it potentially possible to
build the new mplayer with that, ugly I know, but
http://fontconfig.org/release/ChangeLog-2.4.2
doesn't seem to indicate any major changes against 2.4.1, but mainly
bugfixes (bugs with which current users of mplayer had to live with!).
Note also that even fontconfig-2.8.0-2.fc14 provides the same library
(libfontconfig.so.1) as fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.

Thanks for working on this! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

This depends on how much features from 2.4.2 vs. 2.4.1 are required.
Maybe it is possible to come up with patches similar to those I did for
cinelerra.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
about two years ago and several times I manually patched it by removing
non-essential functionality (mostly new options for items placement in
the dialogs, proxy server for subtitle auto-downloader and something
else along these lines), because since VLC switched over to requiring
newer Qt and dropping wxWidgets support as well, smplayer + mplayer was
the best working multimedia combo and certainly a lot easier to patch
then VLC.

However, now that I don't have my RHEL desktop anymore and my RHEL
builder was cynically destroyed as well, I no longer have time and
ressources to backport it anymore, unless some miraculous funding falls
on me from the heavens :-(

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
about two years ago and several times I manually patched it by removing
non-essential functionality (mostly new options for items placement in
the dialogs, proxy server for subtitle auto-downloader and something
else along these lines), because since VLC switched over to requiring
newer Qt and dropping wxWidgets support as well, smplayer + mplayer was
the best working multimedia combo and certainly a lot easier to patch
then VLC.

However, now that I don't have my RHEL desktop anymore and my RHEL
builder was cynically destroyed as well, I no longer have time and
ressources to backport it anymore, unless some miraculous funding falls
on me from the heavens :-(

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
about two years ago and several times I manually patched it by removing
non-essential functionality (mostly new options for items placement in
the dialogs, proxy server for subtitle auto-downloader and something
else along these lines), because since VLC switched over to requiring
newer Qt and dropping wxWidgets support as well, smplayer + mplayer was
the best working multimedia combo and certainly a lot easier to patch
then VLC.

However, now that I don't have my RHEL desktop anymore and my RHEL
builder was cynically destroyed as well, I no longer have time and
ressources to backport it anymore, unless some miraculous funding falls
on me from the heavens :-(

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
about two years ago and several times I manually patched it by removing
non-essential functionality (mostly new options for items placement in
the dialogs, proxy server for subtitle auto-downloader and something
else along these lines), because since VLC switched over to requiring
newer Qt and dropping wxWidgets support as well, smplayer + mplayer was
the best working multimedia combo and certainly a lot easier to patch
then VLC.

However, now that I don't have my RHEL desktop anymore and my RHEL
builder was cynically destroyed as well, I no longer have time and
ressources to backport it anymore, unless some miraculous funding falls
on me from the heavens :-(

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Bad news, the current fontconfig support in mplayer requires fontconfig
2.4.2. So either we can patch the old fontconfig code back in, or we drop
fontconfig support for RHEL5, RHEL4 and RHEL3...

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
about two years ago and several times I manually patched it by removing
non-essential functionality (mostly new options for items placement in
the dialogs, proxy server for subtitle auto-downloader and something
else along these lines), because since VLC switched over to requiring
newer Qt and dropping wxWidgets support as well, smplayer + mplayer was
the best working multimedia combo and certainly a lot easier to patch
then VLC.

However, now that I don't have my RHEL desktop anymore and my RHEL
builder was cynically destroyed as well, I no longer have time and
ressources to backport it anymore, unless some miraculous funding falls
on me from the heavens :-(

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!
Making progress!

Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

[Alfred Ganz]

Yury,
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:35:16 +0100
From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
....
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Just in case you are getting an RHEL desktop again! AG

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Guess why? Because I patched it!

Try vanilla smplayer and see what I mean:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
Yury
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:04:14 +0100
Guess why? Because I patched it!
Well, thanks for the patching. Luckily there havent been any significant
upgrades since then, so your patches should be fine for the moment.

There have been a new 0.6.9 release, which I didn't have time to patch
and commit to RPMForge for the reasons above. How significant this
update would be for you I don't know:

[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:

(2010-02-18)
* New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
option is true.

(2010-02-09)
* Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
Should fix bug #1962349.

(2010-02-02)
* Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.

(2010-02-01)
* Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
fps in the statusbar.
* For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
implementation and create a new one)

(2010-01-28)
* (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
wrong.

(2010-01-20)
* Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
* Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".

(2010-01-15)
* (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
freezes).

(2010-01-10)
* Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.

(2009-12-13)
* Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
following options:
- set A marker
- set B marker
- clear A-B markers
- repeat
This is exactly how it works:
- the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
weren't set, this option does nothing.
- if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
marker, the file will be stopped.

Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
at the point it was previously!

(2009-11-26)
* Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.

(2009-11-19)
* Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
-> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
$HOME/.config/smplayer/).

(2009-11-06)
* Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)

(2009-10-26)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
mentioned problem).

(2009-10-20)
* Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.

(2009-10-03)
* Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
(http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
version strings in Mandriva.

(2009-09-14)
* New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
in the OSD.

(2009-09-13)
* Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.

(2009-09-09)
* (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'

(2009-09-04)
* Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
(grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.

(2009-08-31)
* Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
General -> Video.

(2009-08-30)
* (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
the vdpau vo.

(2009-08-16)
* All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.

(2009-08-12)
* Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.

(2009-07-31)
* The default cache for local files is 0.
* New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).

(2009-07-30)
* If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
them and then clear them with -vf-clr)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
Yury
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:04:14 +0100
Guess why? Because I patched it!
Well, thanks for the patching. Luckily there havent been any significant
upgrades since then, so your patches should be fine for the moment.

There have been a new 0.6.9 release, which I didn't have time to patch
and commit to RPMForge for the reasons above. How significant this
update would be for you I don't know:

[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:

(2010-02-18)
* New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
option is true.

(2010-02-09)
* Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
Should fix bug #1962349.

(2010-02-02)
* Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.

(2010-02-01)
* Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
fps in the statusbar.
* For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
implementation and create a new one)

(2010-01-28)
* (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
wrong.

(2010-01-20)
* Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
* Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".

(2010-01-15)
* (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
freezes).

(2010-01-10)
* Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.

(2009-12-13)
* Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
following options:
- set A marker
- set B marker
- clear A-B markers
- repeat
This is exactly how it works:
- the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
weren't set, this option does nothing.
- if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
marker, the file will be stopped.

Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
at the point it was previously!

(2009-11-26)
* Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.

(2009-11-19)
* Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
-> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
$HOME/.config/smplayer/).

(2009-11-06)
* Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)

(2009-10-26)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
mentioned problem).

(2009-10-20)
* Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.

(2009-10-03)
* Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
(http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
version strings in Mandriva.

(2009-09-14)
* New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
in the OSD.

(2009-09-13)
* Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.

(2009-09-09)
* (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'

(2009-09-04)
* Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
(grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.

(2009-08-31)
* Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
General -> Video.

(2009-08-30)
* (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
the vdpau vo.

(2009-08-16)
* All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.

(2009-08-12)
* Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.

(2009-07-31)
* The default cache for local files is 0.
* New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).

(2009-07-30)
* If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
them and then clear them with -vf-clr)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
Yury
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:04:14 +0100
Guess why? Because I patched it!
Well, thanks for the patching. Luckily there havent been any significant
upgrades since then, so your patches should be fine for the moment.

There have been a new 0.6.9 release, which I didn't have time to patch
and commit to RPMForge for the reasons above. How significant this
update would be for you I don't know:

[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:

(2010-02-18)
* New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
option is true.

(2010-02-09)
* Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
Should fix bug #1962349.

(2010-02-02)
* Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.

(2010-02-01)
* Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
fps in the statusbar.
* For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
implementation and create a new one)

(2010-01-28)
* (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
wrong.

(2010-01-20)
* Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
* Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".

(2010-01-15)
* (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
freezes).

(2010-01-10)
* Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.

(2009-12-13)
* Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
following options:
- set A marker
- set B marker
- clear A-B markers
- repeat
This is exactly how it works:
- the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
weren't set, this option does nothing.
- if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
marker, the file will be stopped.

Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
at the point it was previously!

(2009-11-26)
* Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.

(2009-11-19)
* Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
-> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
$HOME/.config/smplayer/).

(2009-11-06)
* Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)

(2009-10-26)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
mentioned problem).

(2009-10-20)
* Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.

(2009-10-03)
* Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
(http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
version strings in Mandriva.

(2009-09-14)
* New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
in the OSD.

(2009-09-13)
* Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.

(2009-09-09)
* (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'

(2009-09-04)
* Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
(grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.

(2009-08-31)
* Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
General -> Video.

(2009-08-30)
* (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
the vdpau vo.

(2009-08-16)
* All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.

(2009-08-12)
* Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.

(2009-07-31)
* The default cache for local files is 0.
* New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).

(2009-07-30)
* If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
them and then clear them with -vf-clr)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
Yury
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:04:14 +0100
Guess why? Because I patched it!
Well, thanks for the patching. Luckily there havent been any significant
upgrades since then, so your patches should be fine for the moment.

There have been a new 0.6.9 release, which I didn't have time to patch
and commit to RPMForge for the reasons above. How significant this
update would be for you I don't know:

[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:

(2010-02-18)
* New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
option is true.

(2010-02-09)
* Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
Should fix bug #1962349.

(2010-02-02)
* Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.

(2010-02-01)
* Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
fps in the statusbar.
* For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
implementation and create a new one)

(2010-01-28)
* (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
wrong.

(2010-01-20)
* Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
* Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".

(2010-01-15)
* (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
freezes).

(2010-01-10)
* Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.

(2009-12-13)
* Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
following options:
- set A marker
- set B marker
- clear A-B markers
- repeat
This is exactly how it works:
- the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
weren't set, this option does nothing.
- if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
marker, the file will be stopped.

Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
at the point it was previously!

(2009-11-26)
* Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.

(2009-11-19)
* Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
-> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
$HOME/.config/smplayer/).

(2009-11-06)
* Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)

(2009-10-26)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
mentioned problem).

(2009-10-20)
* Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.

(2009-10-03)
* Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
(http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
version strings in Mandriva.

(2009-09-14)
* New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
in the OSD.

(2009-09-13)
* Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.

(2009-09-09)
* (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'

(2009-09-04)
* Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
(grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.

(2009-08-31)
* Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
General -> Video.

(2009-08-30)
* (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
the vdpau vo.

(2009-08-16)
* All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.

(2009-08-12)
* Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.

(2009-07-31)
* The default cache for local files is 0.
* New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).

(2009-07-30)
* If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
them and then clear them with -vf-clr)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
Yury
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:04:14 +0100
Guess why? Because I patched it!
Well, thanks for the patching. Luckily there havent been any significant
upgrades since then, so your patches should be fine for the moment.

There have been a new 0.6.9 release, which I didn't have time to patch
and commit to RPMForge for the reasons above. How significant this
update would be for you I don't know:

[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:

(2010-02-18)
* New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
option is true.

(2010-02-09)
* Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
Should fix bug #1962349.

(2010-02-02)
* Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.

(2010-02-01)
* Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
fps in the statusbar.
* For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
implementation and create a new one)

(2010-01-28)
* (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
wrong.

(2010-01-20)
* Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
* Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".

(2010-01-15)
* (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
freezes).

(2010-01-10)
* Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.

(2009-12-13)
* Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
following options:
- set A marker
- set B marker
- clear A-B markers
- repeat
This is exactly how it works:
- the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
the change can take effect.
- the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
weren't set, this option does nothing.
- if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
marker, the file will be stopped.

Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
at the point it was previously!

(2009-11-26)
* Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.

(2009-11-19)
* Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
-> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
$HOME/.config/smplayer/).

(2009-11-06)
* Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)

(2009-10-26)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
mentioned problem).

(2009-10-20)
* Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.

(2009-10-03)
* Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
(http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
version strings in Mandriva.

(2009-09-14)
* New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
in the OSD.

(2009-09-13)
* Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.

(2009-09-09)
* (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'

(2009-09-04)
* Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
(grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.

(2009-08-31)
* Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
General -> Video.

(2009-08-30)
* (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
the vdpau vo.

(2009-08-16)
* All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.

(2009-08-12)
* Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.

(2009-07-31)
* The default cache for local files is 0.
* New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).

(2009-07-30)
* If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
them and then clear them with -vf-clr)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Guess why? Because I patched it!

Try vanilla smplayer and see what I mean:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Guess why? Because I patched it!

Try vanilla smplayer and see what I mean:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Guess why? Because I patched it!

Try vanilla smplayer and see what I mean:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Guess why? Because I patched it!

Try vanilla smplayer and see what I mean:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:44:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.
....
And that works... Please verify !
Works for me, with the minimal testing that I can do!

Thanks a lot! AG

P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

Hi!

I've seen your email, but didn't have time to check it.
Please attach patches in form of diff -Naur a b > c.patch.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

Hi!

I've seen your email, but didn't have time to check it.
Please attach patches in form of diff -Naur a b > c.patch.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

Hi!

I've seen your email, but didn't have time to check it.
Please attach patches in form of diff -Naur a b > c.patch.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

Hi!

I've seen your email, but didn't have time to check it.
Please attach patches in form of diff -Naur a b > c.patch.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Alfred Ganz
P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

Hi!

I've seen your email, but didn't have time to check it.
Please attach patches in form of diff -Naur a b > c.patch.

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
system:
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
With the previous version:
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.

It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.
It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Yes, a new build has been made. Please verify if this fixes the problem
for you !

Post by Alfred Ganz
Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

You're welcome :)

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have tried the next version of mplayer:
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
wants to use -fontconfig, mplayer complains with this:
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!

Making progress!

Thanks for your help, AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Yury,
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:35:16 +0100
From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
....
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Just in case you are getting an RHEL desktop again! AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:44:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.
....
And that works... Please verify !
Works for me, with the minimal testing that I can do!

Thanks a lot! AG

P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
system:
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
With the previous version:
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.

It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.
It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Yes, a new build has been made. Please verify if this fixes the problem
for you !

Post by Alfred Ganz
Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

You're welcome :)

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have tried the next version of mplayer:
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
wants to use -fontconfig, mplayer complains with this:
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!

Making progress!

Thanks for your help, AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Yury,
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:35:16 +0100
From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
....
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Just in case you are getting an RHEL desktop again! AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:44:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.
....
And that works... Please verify !
Works for me, with the minimal testing that I can do!

Thanks a lot! AG

P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
system:
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
With the previous version:
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.

It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.
It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Yes, a new build has been made. Please verify if this fixes the problem
for you !

Post by Alfred Ganz
Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

You're welcome :)

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have tried the next version of mplayer:
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
wants to use -fontconfig, mplayer complains with this:
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!

Making progress!

Thanks for your help, AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Yury,
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:35:16 +0100
From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
....
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Just in case you are getting an RHEL desktop again! AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:44:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.
....
And that works... Please verify !
Works for me, with the minimal testing that I can do!

Thanks a lot! AG

P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
system:
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
With the previous version:
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.

It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Alfred Ganz
I just tried to install the latest version for mplayer in a Centos-5.5
mplayer-1.0-0.44.svn20100703.el5.rf
mplayer-1.0-0.43.svn20090711.el5.rf
I was able to view DVD's. However, with the new version mplayer objects
to a dvd-device=/dev/... statement in the config file. When I remove
this line smplayer immediately object, saying that mplayer isn't built
with libdvdread.
It looks to me like the new version of mplayer might need to be built
with --withdvdread.

Yes, a new build has been made. Please verify if this fixes the problem
for you !

Post by Alfred Ganz
Thanks for maintaining the archive! AG

You're welcome :)

[Alfred Ganz]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have tried the next version of mplayer:
mplayer-1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf
After commenting out the following line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
fontconfig = yes
it now works partially, but when I try using it with smplayer, which
wants to use -fontconfig, mplayer complains with this:
# mplayer -fontconfig
MPlayer was compiled without fontconfig support.
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
So it looks like there is yet another build option that needs to be
looked at. Unfortunately I don't see anything listed in the summary
field of the spec file to indicate what to do!

Making progress!

Thanks for your help, AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Yury,
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:35:16 +0100
From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com>
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

Post by Dag Wieers
Yes, the fontconfig problem still needs to be addressed. And maybe an
smplayer update too ?

Good luck with smplayer...

They dropped the support for the Qt4 version that RHEL5 is shipping
....
I am using smplayer from rpmforge (smplayer-0.6.8-1.el5.rf), which
is built against qt4-4.2.1-1, which in turn is from the Centos-5.5 vanilla
base. It works fine and doesn't seem to have build problems.

Just in case you are getting an RHEL desktop again! AG

[Alfred Ganz]

Dag,
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:44:29 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [users] the new mplayer for el5

I worked around the problem for RHEL5. There was more than one problem.
....
And that works... Please verify !
Works for me, with the minimal testing that I can do!

Thanks a lot! AG

P.S. I am using mplayer with Version: 0.6.9 (SVN r3447) of smplayer.
Let me know if you would like the modified patch file!