mplayer vs xine

[Loren M. Lang]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:59:39AM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Saturday 5 February 2005 02:50, Rob wrote:
> > Jacob S wrote:
> > > I like mplayer for cli stuff and xine for gui.
> > > Mainly because the cli stuff I do is downloading and
> > > converting streams from wma/rm to wav/ogg/mp3, etc.
> > > and I use the gui for watching videos and such.
> >
> > How do you convert realmedia to other formats with
> > mplayer?
> > Or maybe first: how do you play realmedia streams
> > with mplayer?
> >
> > I have installed:
> >    mplayer-gtk2-0.99.5_6
> >    linux-realplayer-10.0.2_1
> >    win32-codecs-2.1.0.p5,1
> >
> > I can't play realplay streams with mplayer.
> > When I do:
> >    mplayer -vo x11 "rtsp://some.site.com/movie.rm"
> >
> > I get lots of output in my terminal, among wich I
> > see:
> >
> >   Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
> >   opening shared obj
> > '/usr/local/lib/win32/drv4.so.6.0'
> >   Error: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required
> >   by "drv4.so.6.0" opening win32 dll 'drv4.so.6.0'
> >
> > But libc.so.6 is in /usr/compat/linux/lib. Hmm, why
> > is that not found? I then did
> >    ldconfig -m /usr/compat/linux/lib
> >
> > That helped. I started mplayer again, but then
> > mplayer crashed, as follows:
> >
> > [...snip...]
> > ==================================================
> > Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
> > opening shared obj '/usr/local/lib/win32/cook.so.6.0'
> >
> > MPlayer interrupted by signal 10 in module:
> > init_audio_codec
> > - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
> >   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your
> >   drivers _or_ in your
> >   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault,
> >   please read
> >   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the
> >   instructions there. We can't and
> >   won't help unless you provide this information when
> >   reporting a possible bug.
> >
> > ==================================================
> >
> > Any idea why I've got such problems with mplayer
> > and real video streams?
> 
> I never gotten it to work either, a few of the codecs do -- I think the win32 
> only ones, but not the Unix ones from linux-realplayer. I'm sure mplayer/xine 
> being natively compiled while the real codecs are mostly linux libraries via 
> compat must be the problem.
> 
> If someone wants to fix this, do look at what NetBSD does. They have a 
> seperate real codecs package for it, I'm not sure what they do but their 
> mplayer/xine do work with the rv1 to 4 codecs, and no errors about cook and 
> all.

I've had problems getting mplayer and xine to work with real codecs on
linux, some error with cook.dll or something.  I think it will only work
with rp8 or rp9 codecs, but even though didn't work when I was running
in linux.  I finally gave up and installed realplayer 10 which works
good in both linux and freebsd.

> 
> Dan
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