[HowTo] Ubuntu 8.10 SVN PMS & Multithread

[vmlinuz]

First of all, get a PC and install Ubuntu on it
My Ubuntu still 32bits cause 64bits IOMMU issue with my MB
I don't explain howto install it cause of lot better howto are around on forums.
Do a update, security and bug issues must closed
restart

I use kernel 2.6.27-11-generic

If you plan to use svn, just skip this java 6 install step. By installing 'ant' and its tools, you will take java and javac 1.6

Java 6 install ( choose --> Linux (fichier auto-extractible))

download it from http://www.java.com/fr/download/manual.jsp
mine was stored on my desktop
open a terminal

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~$ sudo -s
   [sudo] password for vmlinuz:
   root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# cd /opt
   root@vmlinuz-desktop:~/opt# chmod 777 /home/vmlinuz/Bureau/jre-6u11-linux-i586.bin
   root@vmlinuz-desktop:/opt# /home/vmlinuz/Bureau/jre-6u11-linux-i586.bin
      Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes   
      ...
      Done.
   root@vmlinuz-desktop:/opt# cd


add this line at end of file : JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_11/

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   root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# vi .bashrc


exit and open terminal again

check JAVA_HOME var

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~$ echo $JAVA_HOME
   /opt/jre1.6.0_11
   

download, unzip PMS, and do it ready for run mode

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~$ wget http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-linux-1.03.tgz
   ...
   - « pms-linux-1.03.tgz » sauvegardé [5839087/5839087]
   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~$ tar -xvzf pms-linux-1.03.tgz
   pms-linux-1.03/linux/
   ...
   pms-linux-1.03/pms.jar
   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~$ cd pms-linux-1.03/
   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~/pms-linux-1.03$ chmod 744 PMS.sh


add JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_11/ after DIRNAME=`dirname $0` line

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~/pms-linux-1.03$ vi PMS.sh


get tsMuxer exec perms

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~/pms-linux-1.03$ chmod 744 linux/tsMuxeR


now launch your favorite amazing PMS app, and enjoy

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   vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~/pms-linux-1.03$ ./PMS.sh


At this time you can use tsMuxer, no other encoder, so do PMS internal conf for that usage, use next step to get mencoder


Before next step, explanations are proposed to multi-core CPU owners.
let me know if it's work on single core

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vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:~/pms-linux-1.03$ cd /usr/src/
vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src$ sudo -s
sudo password for vmlinuz:


get 'svn' and' git' apps and needed compile tools

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src#apt-get install subversion build-essential git-core checkinstall yasm libgpac-dev


get neeeded lib dev here change libglide2 by libglide3 if you are on Ubuntu 64bits

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vmlinuz@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src$ 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


get latest svn mplayer

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
...
Référence externe extraite à la révision 1166.

Révision 28388 extraite.
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src#


get ffmpeg-mt

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# git clone git://gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt.git
...
Resolving deltas: 100% (66342/66342), done.
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src#


get last x264

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git


compil x264

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# cd x264
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/x264# ./configure --enable-shared
You can run 'make' or 'make fprofiled' now.
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/x264# make
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/x264# checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-ubuntu"
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/x264# ldconfig


compil and install ffmpeg multithread

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# cd ffmpeg-mt/
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg-mt# git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/libswscale/
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg-mt# ./configure
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg-mt# make
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg-mt# make install


note you could do the same for single multicore
#get, compil and install ffmpeg non multi thread
#root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
#root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# cd ffmpeg
#root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg# ./configure
#root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg# make
#root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/ffmpeg# make install



compil and install mencoder multithread

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src# cd ../mplayer/
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# cp -rf ../ffmpeg-mt/libavcodec libavcodec
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# cp -rf ../ffmpeg-mt/libavformat libavformat
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# cp -rf ../ffmpeg-mt/libavutil libavutil
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# ./configure
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# make
root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# make install

root@vmlinuz-desktop:/usr/src/mplayer# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/


Launch PMS.sh and try it with multicore purpose


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If you want to get the last SVN PMS code read-only and compil it

You need ant and its stuff

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# apt-get install ant ant-gcj ant-optional ant-optional-gcj \
ca-certificates-java default-jdk default-jre default-jre-headless gcj-4.3-base java-common \
libaccess-bridge-java libgcj-bc libgcj-common libgcj9-0 libgcj9-jar libjaxp1.3-java \
libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre \
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib rhino ttf-bengali-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts \
ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-wqy-zenhei tzdata-java


Now get last SVN PMS code

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# svn checkout http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ps3mediaserver-read-only


Compile it

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root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# cd ps3mediaserver-read-only/ps3mediaserver
root@vmlinuz-desktop:~# ant


Now you can use latest compiled PMS.jar or extract full release from generated tar.gz file

Enjoy !

Big Thanks to useful links
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095 for ffmpeg
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024592 for mplayer

[vmlinuz]

just trying to find issue with mencoder-mt...*

I get an issue on Ubuntu 8.10 (but was working without issue on 8.04 )

mencoder-mt's compilation work fine
mencoder is seen in transcoded PMS view, like in default view.

then I launch the movie, and get this :

[Thread-390] TRACE 22:49:30.364 Exception in thread "Thread-390" java.lang.NullPointerException
[Thread-390] TRACE 22:49:30.364 at net.pms.io.PipeIPCProcess.run(PipeIPCProcess.java:54)

Is this coming from PMS issue or sounds like a mencoder issue ?
Thanks,

EDIT : THIS WAS DUE TO A MENCODER ISSUE CAUSE LIB for DEV - no issue now

[vmlinuz]

Just added multithread mencoder and svn pms part.
See first post

[vmlinuz]

Same way under Ubuntu 8.10 64bits used.

This is some diff :

During lib install, use libglide3 instead of libglide2.

Mencoder MT compil and work.

tsMuxer seems have an issue under linux 64bits, I get "Data corrupted" on PS3 and debug.log give me :
"DEBUG 16:18:26.922 /home/vmlinuz/pms-linux-1.03/linux/tsMuxeR: 43: /tmp/tmp.CQxTlr4253/tsMuxeR: not found"

any idea ?

[Ashmodai]

Got the same issue under 8,04 (also 64bits) I add a look at the look and I have seen a message of mencoder complaining about missing libdca for dts decoding. The error was suggesting to recompile mencoder with libdca support. I tried and ... it failed due to a missing dependency ... so I recompiled again without enable libdca and the result is that it seems to be able to use it now (???)

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Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca
Stream with high frequencies VQ coding
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 6 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/33.33% (ratio: 192000->576000)
Selected audio codec: [dts] afm: libdca (DTS-libdca)


I really don't get it ...
Nevertheless the file still does not play

[Ashmodai]

Finally !!! Reading another post I seen somebody complaining that with the mt enabled version he had issue with some mkv if audio was set to more than 2 channels .... I tried and guess what. It does work indead. All my mkvs are playing fine now. I guess this is the price to pay for using a very early svn version of mencoder ...

[vmlinuz]

If you have issues with libdca, you could try to use libdts instead

[vmlinuz]

Hi !
Lot of readers and no comment, is this still so perfect

Please let me know if issues.
bye.

[oggie]

I've done all the steps and I'm able to play videos and play transcoded videos as well.

But I don't think it's running multiple threads, but I'm unsure how to test it. If I run a 'ps -ef' command, I only see one mencoder, but I don't think that tells you how many threads there are.

I can do a 'top -H' and it shows me 5 mencoder threads. But how does one know what CPU they're running on?

What's the proper way to verify the number of threads running?

[jacktin]

I've got the same issue as oggie.

My hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
My O/S: Linux server 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 8.10)

Everything compiles and installs alright but the machine still doesn't have the jam to transcode 1080p on the fly. After a few minutes it runs out of buffer and starts to stutter. The machine does report that multiple threads are running using 'top -H' but it really only seems to be using 1 core. The machine sits at about 35-40% idle.

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top - 21:17:20 up 1 day,  4:41,  2 users,  load average: 1.11, 0.49, 0.18
Tasks: 276 total,   3 running, 273 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 60.3%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 37.9%id,  0.5%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1927820k total,  1913300k used,    14520k free,    20004k buffers
Swap:  5646808k total,     8368k used,  5638440k free,   637144k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
25964 jacktin   20   0  228m  60m 5276 R   67  3.2   0:26.42 mencoder           
25971 jacktin   20   0  228m  60m 5276 S   27  3.2   0:11.38 mencoder           
25972 jacktin   20   0  228m  60m 5276 S   27  3.2   0:11.70 mencoder           
25956 jacktin   20   0 1185m 582m  11m S    1 30.9   0:00.18 java               
25970 jacktin   20   0 1185m 582m  11m S    1 30.9   0:00.54 java
...             


The mencoder process is actually reported to be using about 121% so maybe it's spanning both cores but why isn't it using all of the horsepower that the machine has? Anybody have any ideas?

The command line for mencoder is as follows:

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26628 ?        Rl     0:28 mencoder -ss 0 -quiet /media/video/HD/1080p_DTS_x264_input.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=2 -lavcopts autoaspect=1:vcodec=mpeg2video:acodec=ac3:abitrate=384:threads=2:keyint=3:vqscale=2:vqmin=3 -alang eng,fre,jpn,ger -subdelay 20000 -quiet -quiet -quiet -quiet -ofps 24000/1001 -quiet -quiet -mc 0 -noskip -af lavcresample=48000 -srate 48000 -o /tmp/javaps3media/mencoder1234758688198


Changing the configuration on the Transcoding settings tab in PMS does result in more threads being spawned (according to 'top -H') but it does not improve the performance. In fact, the performance is about the same whether I set it for 1, 2 or 4 cores which makes me think it's only using one cores.

Anyone have any insight or tips?

Regarding the tutorial, I have a couple of suggestions (just very minor things). It might be good to do something like the following prior to installing these packages from source:

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$sudo apt-get purge ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev mplayer mencoder

And instead of doing a make install for ffmpeg-mt and mplayer:

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$sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "3:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3"

$sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --maintainer "$USER" --pkgname mplayer --pkgversion "3:1.0~svn" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --gzman --default