Multicore x264 not working

[Ashmodai]

Just tried to follow the tutorial and I cannot get mencoder to compile anymore :
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:1053: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member named 'state'
make: *** [libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o] Error 1

ffpmpeg and x264 are fine. Any idea what I am missing (I am on 8.04) ?

[vmlinuz]

you should find a line before telling .... directory/file.h : file or directory not found
can you post it ?

[Ashmodai]

Very good guess !!!

Here is the complete result :

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cc -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-after-statement -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I.   -I/usr/include/SDL  -D_REENTRANT -Ilibdvdread4   -I/usr/include/schroedinger-1.0 -I/usr/include/liboil-0.3   -Ilibdvdnav   -c -o libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c
In file included from libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:27:
./libavcodec/avcodec.h:3127:5: warning: "EINVAL" is not defined
In file included from libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:30:
./xvmc_render.h:27:31: error: X11/extensions/Xv.h: No such file or directory
./xvmc_render.h:28:34: error: X11/extensions/Xvlib.h: No such file or directory
./xvmc_render.h:29:36: error: X11/extensions/XvMClib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:30:
./xvmc_render.h:46: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'XvMCMacroBlock'
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'init':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:267: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:391: warning: 'AVPaletteControl' is deprecated
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'get_buffer':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:621: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'decode':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:752: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:767: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:775: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'get_format':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:923: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'mc_get_buffer':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:953: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:1026: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member named 'state'
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c: In function 'mc_release_buffer':
libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:1053: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member named 'state'
make: *** [libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.o] Error 1


[Ashmodai]

Thanks to your suggestion I found out that I was missing two libs
libxvmc-dev
libxv-dev

After that it worked fine
Thanks for your help !

[vmlinuz]

Some headers file are missing.
They come from X11 dev files.
Check again the "get neeeded lib dev" part in howto, you need to copy past all.

or Copy /past this line :

apt-get install em8300-headers gawk gettext html2text intltool-debian \
ladspa-sdk libaa1-dev libartsc0 libartsc0-dev libasound2-dev libatk1.0-dev libaudio-dev \
libaudio2 libaudiofile-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-common-dev libcaca-dev \
libcairo2-dev libcdparanoia0-dev libcucul-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev \
libdirectfb-dev libdirectfb-extra libdts-dev libdv4-dev libenca-dev libenca0 \
libesd0-dev libexpat1-dev libfaac-dev libfaac0 libfontconfig1-dev libfreebob0 \
libfreetype6-dev libfribidi-dev libggi-target-x libggi2 libggi2-dev libggimisc2 \
libggimisc2-dev libgif-dev libgii1 libgii1-dev libgii1-target-x libgl1-mesa-dev \
libglib2.0-dev libglide2 libglu1-mesa-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev libice-dev \
libjack-dev libjack0 libjpeg62-dev liblzo-dev liblzo1 liblzo2-2 liblzo2-dev libmad0 \
libmad0-dev libmail-sendmail-perl libmp3lame-dev libmp3lame0 libmpcdec-dev libmpcdec3 \
libncurses5-dev libogg-dev libopenal-dev libopenal1 libpango1.0-dev libpixman-1-dev \
libpng12-dev libpopt-dev libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libpulse-dev \
libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libsdl1.2-dev libslang2-dev libsm-dev libsmbclient-dev \
libspeex-dev libsvga1 libsvga1-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl libsysfs-dev \
libtheora-dev libtwolame-dev libtwolame0 libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev \
libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-xlib0-dev libxcb1-dev \
libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev \
libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxt-dev libxv-dev \
libxvidcore4 libxvidcore4-dev libxvmc-dev libxvmc1 libxxf86dga-dev libxxf86vm-dev \
mesa-common-dev po-debconf sharutils x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev \
x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev \
x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev \
x11proto-xf86dga-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev \
xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev libschroedinger-dev libstdc++5 libfaad-dev \
libgsm1-dev libdc1394-22-dev libfaad-dev libsdl1.2-dev

edit : if you run it under 64bits, change libglide2 to libglide3

then press enter to continue
Then try again to compile mplayer/mencoder

Bye

[Ashmodai]

I want to cry

As I said I finally was able to compile it but I still get the corrupted data from my ps3 (
What I can see in the debug log :

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[Thread-167] TRACE 00:50:34.085 Starting transcode of StressTest.1080p.DTS5.1.mkv
[mkfifo] INFO  00:50:34.142 Starting mkfifo --mode=777 /tmp/javaps3media/mencoder1233532234088
[mencoder] INFO  00:50:34.193 Starting mencoder -ss 0 -quiet /data/Movies/ps3/HD/StressTest.1080p.DTS5.1.mkv -quiet -quiet -oac lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size=1194:abuf_size=64 -ovc lavc -channels 6 -lavdopts debug=0:threads=4 -lavcopts autoaspect=1:vcodec=mpeg2video:acodec=ac3:abitrate=576:threads=4:keyint=1:vqscale=1:vqmin=1 -quiet -nofontconfig -subcp cp1252 -alang fre,eng -ass-color ffffff00 -ass-border-color 00000000 -ass-font-scale 1.0 -ass-force-style FontName=Arial,Outline=1,Shadow=1,MarginV=10 -slang fre,eng -quiet -quiet -quiet -quiet -ofps 24000/1001 -quiet -quiet -af lavcresample=48000 -srate 48000 -o /tmp/javaps3media/mencoder1233532234088
[mencoder] INFO  00:50:34.210 Reading pipe: /tmp/javaps3media/mencoder1233532234088
[mencoder] DEBUG 00:50:34.210 Opening file /tmp/javaps3media/mencoder1233532234088 for reading...
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.243 Wrote on socket: Content-Type: video/mpeg
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.243 Wrote on socket: Connection: keep-alive
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.243 Wrote on socket: Server: Linux-amd64-2.6.24-23-server UPnP/1.0, PMS
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.243 Wrote on socket: Content-Length: 0
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.243 Wrote on socket:
[Thread-167] DEBUG 00:50:40.244 Close Connection


[Ashmodai]

I progress (or I think so). I tried to run the mencoder command line manually as per the log file and I get this error :
MEncoder SVN-r28445-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11)
-ass is not an MEncoder option

Exiting... (error parsing command line)

Strange isn't it ? Still something missing on my installation ???
vmlinuz : thanks a lot for your quite bit apt-get install libs command but many do not exist (at least not under these names) for ubuntu 8.04 ... still compilation went fine

[Ashmodai]

Ok. -ass seems to be linked to subtitles and by default mencoder does not support them and need a patch to do so ... I assume the svn version does not so I set subtitles to be definitively off in the GUI and finally I was able to see a movie working fine !!!

But ... now a lot of movies that were just playing fine don't play anymore ... no error message, nothing in the logs, just that the film never starts playing on the ps3
Really strange : if I run mencoder manually with the same option it does work very nicelly and it keeps filling the tmp file (that does play using vlc so I assume it is valid ...

[lavvan]

hi.

I went through the howto, but I cant seem to get both my cores running.

Just get corrupted file with the expert setting:
mencoder_decode=vcodec == h264 :: -mt -lavdopts fast : threads=2 (subtitles=disabled)
Attached debug file

If i run without this setting the movie plays, but just on 50-60% CPU ussage.

Any idea of whats wrong?

[shagrath]

well that's the thing when running with no GUI, you mess with the settings, and make some mistakes
the ones you have set in mencoder_decode are not the good ones
you do not have to change anything if you are on linux (unlike Windows and OSX)