[users] MPlayer package questions

[Greg Bailey]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding the newer (December 4) RPMs of mplayer:

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems like
it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
following when using mplayer:

$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
to MPEG4, I get:

$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4

gives MPlayer output, followed by:

==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.

I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

Did something change with respect to how libfaac is used/linked by mencoder?

thanks,
Greg

[Dag Wieers]

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor mencoder.
Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find out what happened
to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to deciphering mencoder's many
options. Also things like /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of
mplayer-common, so it seems like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or
mencoder.

Fixed !

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video to
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

[Greg Bailey]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems
like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

Fixed !

Confirmed!

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf
file. With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file supplied by mplayer-common:

--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no

# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes

# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment
thing earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found
at build time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's
OK now.

Many thanks!

Greg

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment thing
earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found at build
time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's OK now.

The problem was related to me cleaning up the SPEC file and adding options
to force mplayer to use libfaac, and not ffmpeg's faac. From the buildlog
diff:

-Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: no)
+Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)

I thought it was better to use libfaac, but I reverted this (and a few
other ffmpeg items) after your report.

[Dag Wieers]

Sorry,

I hit the send button too quickly when my daughter needed some attention
:)

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

This did not used to be a problem, so I prefer to look at our mplayer
build first. Comparing our earlier 1.0-0.44.svn20090711.el5.rf build vs.
1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf I see this:

-Checking for fontconfig ... yes
+Checking for fontconfig ... no

which is weird. Probably the newer mplayer is looking for eg. a pkg-config
file or using a newer interface and failing. I'll look into this later.

Sorry for the inconvenience :-/

[Dag Wieers]

Sorry,

I hit the send button too quickly when my daughter needed some attention
:)

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

This did not used to be a problem, so I prefer to look at our mplayer
build first. Comparing our earlier 1.0-0.44.svn20090711.el5.rf build vs.
1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf I see this:

-Checking for fontconfig ... yes
+Checking for fontconfig ... no

which is weird. Probably the newer mplayer is looking for eg. a pkg-config
file or using a newer interface and failing. I'll look into this later.

Sorry for the inconvenience :-/

[Dag Wieers]

Sorry,

I hit the send button too quickly when my daughter needed some attention
:)

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

This did not used to be a problem, so I prefer to look at our mplayer
build first. Comparing our earlier 1.0-0.44.svn20090711.el5.rf build vs.
1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf I see this:

-Checking for fontconfig ... yes
+Checking for fontconfig ... no

which is weird. Probably the newer mplayer is looking for eg. a pkg-config
file or using a newer interface and failing. I'll look into this later.

Sorry for the inconvenience :-/

[Dag Wieers]

Sorry,

I hit the send button too quickly when my daughter needed some attention
:)

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

This did not used to be a problem, so I prefer to look at our mplayer
build first. Comparing our earlier 1.0-0.44.svn20090711.el5.rf build vs.
1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf I see this:

-Checking for fontconfig ... yes
+Checking for fontconfig ... no

which is weird. Probably the newer mplayer is looking for eg. a pkg-config
file or using a newer interface and failing. I'll look into this later.

Sorry for the inconvenience :-/

[Dag Wieers]

Sorry,

I hit the send button too quickly when my daughter needed some attention
:)

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

This did not used to be a problem, so I prefer to look at our mplayer
build first. Comparing our earlier 1.0-0.44.svn20090711.el5.rf build vs.
1.0-0.45.svn20100703.el5.rf I see this:

-Checking for fontconfig ... yes
+Checking for fontconfig ... no

which is weird. Probably the newer mplayer is looking for eg. a pkg-config
file or using a newer interface and failing. I'll look into this later.

Sorry for the inconvenience :-/

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment thing
earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found at build
time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's OK now.

The problem was related to me cleaning up the SPEC file and adding options
to force mplayer to use libfaac, and not ffmpeg's faac. From the buildlog
diff:

-Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: no)
+Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)

I thought it was better to use libfaac, but I reverted this (and a few
other ffmpeg items) after your report.

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment thing
earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found at build
time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's OK now.

The problem was related to me cleaning up the SPEC file and adding options
to force mplayer to use libfaac, and not ffmpeg's faac. From the buildlog
diff:

-Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: no)
+Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)

I thought it was better to use libfaac, but I reverted this (and a few
other ffmpeg items) after your report.

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment thing
earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found at build
time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's OK now.

The problem was related to me cleaning up the SPEC file and adding options
to force mplayer to use libfaac, and not ffmpeg's faac. From the buildlog
diff:

-Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: no)
+Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)

I thought it was better to use libfaac, but I reverted this (and a few
other ffmpeg items) after your report.

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf file.
With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no
# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes
# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment thing
earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found at build
time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's OK now.

The problem was related to me cleaning up the SPEC file and adding options
to force mplayer to use libfaac, and not ffmpeg's faac. From the buildlog
diff:

-Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: no)
+Checking for FAAC support ... yes (in libavcodec: yes)

I thought it was better to use libfaac, but I reverted this (and a few
other ffmpeg items) after your report.

[Greg Bailey]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems
like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

Fixed !

Confirmed!

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf
file. With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file supplied by mplayer-common:

--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no

# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes

# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment
thing earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found
at build time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's
OK now.

Many thanks!

Greg

[Greg Bailey]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems
like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

Fixed !

Confirmed!

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf
file. With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file supplied by mplayer-common:

--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no

# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes

# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment
thing earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found
at build time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's
OK now.

Many thanks!

Greg

[Greg Bailey]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems
like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

Fixed !

Confirmed!

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf
file. With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file supplied by mplayer-common:

--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no

# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes

# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment
thing earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found
at build time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's
OK now.

Many thanks!

Greg

[Greg Bailey]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems
like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

Fixed !

Confirmed!

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

Not sure either, other than to perhaps patch the stock mplayer.conf
file. With the new build I still have to do the following patch to the
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file supplied by mplayer-common:

--- mplayer.conf.bak 2010-12-06 17:47:34.000000000 -0700
+++ mplayer.conf 2010-12-07 06:10:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
flip-hebrew = no

# Use fontconfig for font selection
-fontconfig = yes
+#fontconfig = yes

# Default font for unstyled subtitles
font = "Sans"

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Greg Bailey
3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

Yes, encoding with faac works now; maybe it was a build environment
thing earlier? (Is it one of those things where if libfaac isn't found
at build time then support for it isn't compiled in?) Either way, it's
OK now.

Many thanks!

Greg

[Greg Bailey]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding the newer (December 4) RPMs of mplayer:

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems like
it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
following when using mplayer:

$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
to MPEG4, I get:

$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4

gives MPlayer output, followed by:

==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.

I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

Did something change with respect to how libfaac is used/linked by mencoder?

thanks,
Greg

[Dag Wieers]

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor mencoder.
Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find out what happened
to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to deciphering mencoder's many
options. Also things like /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of
mplayer-common, so it seems like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or
mencoder.

Fixed !

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video to
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

[Greg Bailey]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding the newer (December 4) RPMs of mplayer:

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems like
it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
following when using mplayer:

$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
to MPEG4, I get:

$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4

gives MPlayer output, followed by:

==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.

I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

Did something change with respect to how libfaac is used/linked by mencoder?

thanks,
Greg

[Dag Wieers]

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor mencoder.
Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find out what happened
to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to deciphering mencoder's many
options. Also things like /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of
mplayer-common, so it seems like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or
mencoder.

Fixed !

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video to
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

[Greg Bailey]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding the newer (December 4) RPMs of mplayer:

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems like
it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
following when using mplayer:

$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
to MPEG4, I get:

$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4

gives MPlayer output, followed by:

==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.

I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

Did something change with respect to how libfaac is used/linked by mencoder?

thanks,
Greg

[Dag Wieers]

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor mencoder.
Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find out what happened
to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to deciphering mencoder's many
options. Also things like /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of
mplayer-common, so it seems like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or
mencoder.

Fixed !

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video to
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,

[Greg Bailey]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding the newer (December 4) RPMs of mplayer:

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor
mencoder. Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find
out what happened to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to
deciphering mencoder's many options. Also things like
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of mplayer-common, so it seems like
it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or mencoder.

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
following when using mplayer:

$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video
to MPEG4, I get:

$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4

gives MPlayer output, followed by:

==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.

I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

Did something change with respect to how libfaac is used/linked by mencoder?

thanks,
Greg

[Dag Wieers]

1. It appears that mplayer-common isn't required by mplayer nor mencoder.
Is that intentional? I took me a couple of minutes to find out what happened
to the manpages--which I'd consider essential to deciphering mencoder's many
options. Also things like /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf are part of
mplayer-common, so it seems like it should be a dependency of mplayer and/or
mencoder.

Fixed !

2. Once I figure out that I should install mplayer-common, I get the
$ mplayer testfile.flv
The fontconfig option can't be used in a config file.
Error parsing option fontconfig=yes at line 123

Not sure what I should build differently.

3. After commenting out line 123, when attempting to encode flash video to
$ mencoder -ofps 30000/1001 -af lavcresample=24000 -vf
harddup,crop=320:128:0:56,scale=368:208 -of lavf \
-oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac \
-lavfopts format=psp \
-noskip -skiplimit 1 -mc 0 \
testfile.flv \
-o testfile.mp4
==========================================================================
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec libfaac.
I verified that I have the "faac" RPM installed from RPMForge.

lavc means ffmpeg. So apparently ffmpeg is lacking faac, or mplayer
refuses to use that one. I have a new rebuild, please test it when it
comes available. Thanks in advance,