Latest OS tools (ffmpeg, mplayer, tsmuxer, ...) discussion

[stiller]

I tried this before once and I've tried it again now, but replacing mencoder binary with one from macports results in none of the mencoder files playing at all. This is with the latest Otmanix build. It reports a mencoder return code 139. I can't seem to find the relevant error in the debug log.
I would gladly help with the building of the latest tools for the mac release, but I have no idea what the correct build configuration is.

[stiller]

To reply to my own statement earlier: the newer mencode does seem to work for certain older avi and my own h.264 mov files, but not for any mkv files.

[chocolateboy]

List of ffmpeg builds for Windows:

http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/wiki/index.php?title=Builds

[Redlum]

It's easy to roll your own ffmpeg/mplayer for OS X (use macports if you want it really easy). What's not so easy is to make a statically build version (with statically build dependencies) which is redistributable and works on Tiger (could maybe be dropped now), Leopard and Snow Leopard, which is basically what is required for PMS inclusion. I made the build currently in PMS so it can be done but it's a pain in the ass and I've since lost all the configs I had for it. The build otmanix made for instance will only work on the mac that it was build for (well, once you add configure options at least), because by default everything is built against dynamic libraries and only for the current OS. There is lots of info in the original OS X issue (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... etail?id=6 , especially my comment 105) on what's needed, however the main resource on that page (a wiki on how to build it all) has since gone offline unfortunately.

It's best to use the same dependencies as the sherpya builds (at the bottom of http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php you can find the configure) since those builds are used by PMS on Windows.

For mencoder-mt you can just build like normal but replace the folders libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil with the version from this repository: http://gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt

[chocolateboy]

the main resource on that page (a wiki on how to build it all) has since gone offline unfortunately.

Is this it?

http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/projects/m ... ayerStatic

It looks like that project can do some (all?) of the MPlayer and FFmpeg heavy lifting. It just needs to add MEncoder:

http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/issues/313

[Redlum]

the main resource on that page (a wiki on how to build it all) has since gone offline unfortunately.

Is this it?

http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/projects/m ... ayerStatic

Yeah, that's it It's missing some stuff, but combined with http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... ?id=6#c105 you have all the info you need.

It looks like that project can do some (all?) of the MPlayer and FFmpeg heavy lifting. It just needs to add MEncoder:

http://tracker.mplayerosx.ch/issues/313

I've looked at that before, and they ship mencoder and mencoder-mt but ffmpeg is missing from their distribution unfortunately.

[stiller]

I appears that mencoder from macports is compiled without subtitles. This resulted in an error (mencoder returned 1), until I disabled subtitles completely. So it appears that a custom, statically compiled version is the way to go.

[MKUltra]

I appears that mencoder from macports is compiled without subtitles. This resulted in an error (mencoder returned 1), until I disabled subtitles completely. So it appears that a custom, statically compiled version is the way to go.

Stiller, to compile mplayer/mencoder from macports with subtitles and dts support, etc. you need to activate the variants that enable these features at the time of installation. For example:

sudo port install variants mplayer +dts+mencoder_extras+osd [Hint - osd is subtitle support]

[stiller]

Thanks for the hint!

[Raptor399]

Thanks for your work, otmanix!

UPDATE:
You can find Yasm assembler here: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Download
Latest DMG image there is version 0.7.1 from 2008
It looks like one once again has to to a ./configure && make && make install

Almost. Can you update the original posting with these instructions on how to build yasm?

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svn checkout http://www.tortall.net/svn/yasm/trunk/yasm yasm
cd yasm
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

If you do this before configuring mplayer, you can remove the bit about starting configure without yasm.