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cothrige wrote: |
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>I am very new to Gentoo and portage and just beginning to learn to |
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>find my way around. For the most part things have been good, but |
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>MPlayer has proved to be a difficulty. Not in basic functionality |
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>though, but just speed. |
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>What I did was start with a basic 'emerge -a mplayer' which installed |
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>mplayer and a codec package. Everything seemed very solid and seemed |
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>to work as it should. But when I tested mencoder with a dvd it would |
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>only run at something like 12 or 14 fps. Normally with the same |
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>settings (mencoder dvd://1 -noodml -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts |
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>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1800) it goes at about 28-30. I hated to |
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>think about taking three hours to make one pass on a movie encoding |
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>and so unmerged it and compiled myself from source. Now it works |
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>fine. |
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>I am very curious about what I did wrong, not so much for mplayer as I |
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>have it running fine but rather for a better knowledge of portage and |
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>such. My use flags in /etc/make.conf are this: "gnome kde jpeg gif |
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>tiff dvd dvdr emacs tcltk" in case they are responsible. |
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>Thanks in advance for any advice. |
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>Patrick |
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Hi, |
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Maybe rebuilding "mplayer" through portage will have the same result. |
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Think you could have a look at 'revdep-rebuild' (man revdep-rebuild). |
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HTH. Rumen |
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