[K12OSN] united streaming and mplayerplug-in: recipe

Krsnendu dasa krsnendu108 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 02:16:49 UTC 2007


What does sdl:esd do? How is it different from esd? Is esd included in
the Livna version? I compiled my own mplayer because I thought Livna
didn't have esd.

On 14/03/07, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I hope this isn't redundant - the last posts on the issue had videos
> played from saved files via mplayer or other players.
>
> I've gotten mplayerplug-in to work with unitedstreaming.com and cnn.com
> videos within firefox (.wmv format). I've used this only in K12ltsp ver.
> 6, ymmv. It does work in the classroom as I've updated a couple of
> servers plus my own home server without problem.
>
> steps (as root):
> 1) install mplayer and mplayerplug-in from livna
> (if you are updating mplayer and you get a conflict with ffmpeg, remove
> ffmpeg and mplayer and reinstall mplayer)
>
> 2) create the directory /usr/lib/win32 - the default permissions 755
> (iirc) are fine
> download the codecs for various formats from
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> under "binary codecs"
>
> You will be downloading essential-20061022.tar.bz2
>
> Extract the codecs and move them into /usr/lib/win32 and give them the
> same permissions as the directory (if they didn't by default)
> mandatory disclaimer: the codecs are subject to certain licensing
> restrictions in certain countries, blah, blah.
>
> 3) edit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> under the audio section
>
> # Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
> #ao = alsa
>
> # Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default.
> ao = sdl:esd
>
> (ie comment out alsa as the default and uncomment sdl:esd)
>
> 4) drumroll - the part that was giving us all fits: no sound in
> mplayerplug-in
>
> edit /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf
>
> uncomment the ao line and change it to either (they both seem to work)
>
> ao=sdl:esd
>
> or
>
> ao=sdl
>
>
> 5) Annoyingly, if you open the config panel of mplayer plugin from the
> browser window (right clicking), it will show oss as the audio output.
> Ignore it. That may be correctable in the source code but I haven't
> looked at it yet.
>
> 6) Optional: if you are getting "couldn't resolve name for af_inet6"
> errors in mplayer, add the following line to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
>
> prefer-ipv4 = yes
>
> (thanks:
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-May/060636.html)
>
> 7) ignore plugiin warnings on cnn.com, click "continue, etc."
>
> Enjoy,
> William Fragakis
> morrisbrandon.com
>
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