Mencoder ass support on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

[mathmath51]

Hi, as RVM depo doesn't have mencoder .deb for Ubuntu's latest version (10.10 Maverick) I'd like to know if any one manage to make mencoder encode ass subtitles.

I tried with the patch commonly used before (http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... threv=3495) without success, even when checkout-ing the correct version of the mplayer svn repo (30662, it doesn't compile...)

Any ideas ?

[mathmath51]

Ok, so I'm answering to myself with a working solution.
Run this script and voilà.
I know it's not subtle, you'll have an mplayer build pretty old (february 2010) but you'll have ass support.

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#! /bin/bash

echo
echo "=================================================="
echo "Welcome to mencoder with ass support import script"
echo "=================================================="
echo

echo
echo "===================================================================================================="
echo "Getting what you need to compile player, checkinstall & svn to create the mplayer package at the end"
echo "===================================================================================================="
echo
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall subversion
sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer

svn checkout --revision 30662 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer/
cd libavutil/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ../libavcodec/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ../libavformat/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ../libpostproc/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ../libdvdread4/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ../libdvdnav/
svn -r {2010-02-20} up
cd ..

wget "http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch?revision=3442&pathrev=3442"
mv "ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch?revision=3442&pathrev=3442" ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch
patch -p0 -E -i ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch
rm ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch

echo
echo "===================================="
echo "Type the options you like then enter"
echo "===================================="
echo
echo -n "./configure "
read config
./configure --prefix=/usr $config

echo
echo "===================================="
echo "Type the options you like then enter"
echo "===================================="
echo
echo -n "make "
read confmake
make $confmake

sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --fstrans=no --pakdir "mplayer_build" --pkgname mplayer --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default --pkgversion "3:1.0.ASS-Support~svn-$(grep "#define VERSION" version.h | cut -d"-" -f2)"
sudo make uninstall

cp mplayer_build/mplayer*.deb ../
cd ..
sudo rm -rf mplayer

echo
echo "==========================================================="
echo "Now you should have a beautiful .deb ready for installation"
echo "               :) :) :) :) Enjoy :) :) :) :)               "
echo "==========================================================="
echo


[Devilstar]

and what about compiling mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support? where can i find all necessary libavcodec, libavformat, libdvdnav?
if i try to compile mplayer with the newest ffmpeg-mt libs (using git), i'll get errors...

[mathmath51]

Well just send money to RVM (https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer) or the official mplayer team (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) to relaese a patch for the latest revision

[btanoue]

Thanks for this awesome script!

Worked like a charm! No more stuck subtitles.

Thanks Again,
btanoue

[lentschi]

and what about compiling mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support? where can i find all necessary libavcodec, libavformat, libdvdnav?
if i try to compile mplayer with the newest ffmpeg-mt libs (using git), i'll get errors...

Well I got mplayer with ffmpeg-mt compiled and running on Maverick - I didn't write down all the commands that were necessary however - sorry. It wasn't too difficult though.
I followed those two guides (the first one references the second):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049449
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024592

...BUT those guides are quite OLD - So on Maverick some things were different for me:

• The live555 and libopencore-amr libs from the repositories worked fine with the mplayer svn version I used (SVN-r32841-4.4.5), so I didn't download them using git as suggested (I only fetched x264).
• You will certainly have to adept the list of libraries that shall be installed by 'apt-get install ...'. One good method to find out about those required libs is described in the second guide:

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  sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer

• Download ffmpeg from git (as described) and copy it into the 'mplayer' folder completely (Copying the three 'libav...' folders separately as suggested didn't work for me!). Then download libswscale using

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  git clone git://gitorious.org/libswscale/mainline.git

  Rename it to 'libswscale' and move it into 'ffmpeg'. (The 'libswscale' is empty for ffmpeg-mt but there is a note in the git repository that this should be fetched manually.)