Which app to watch movies?

[bsdnooby]

I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.

Am I supposed to install the codecs separately? Or should I be using a
different video player? I'm not clear on what the relationship is
between the various players and codec packages in /usr/ports is.

Other than xine, I'm not sure which other ones are most commonly used.
I'm trying to watch some of these movies:

[url]http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=17225&fro m=mostViewed[/url]

Any movie watching tips would also be appreciated. Oh, I did get
Realplayer8 to work inside WINE, which was pretty cool.

thx!

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:

>
> I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
> with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
> play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.

I use mplayer.

Kris

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[Robert Huff]

Kris Kennaway writes:

> > I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
> > with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
> > play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.

>
> I use mplayer.

Same here, except for .rm files for which
multimedia/linux-realplayer (i.e. v 10) is the ticket.


Robert Huff

[bsdnooby]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:
>
>

>>I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
>>with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
>>play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.
>>
>>

>
>I use mplayer.
>
>Kris
>
>

I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch
size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the
error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an xterm window,
but I guess not.

:-(

[bsdnooby]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:24:16AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:
>
>

>>I'm trying to watch some movies from archive.org, but I'm not familiar
>>with the correct process. I installed xine and avifiles, but they can't
>>play the free mpeg4 movies I'm downloading from archive.org.
>>
>>

>
>I use mplayer.
>
>Kris
>
>

Here is the error:

=> Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
=> Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
=> Attempting to fetch from
[url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/[/url].
fetch:
[url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url]
size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221736
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer and try again.
*** Error code 1

[Miguel Mendez]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:07:37 -0500
bsdnooby <bsdnooby@optonline.net> wrote:

> I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch
> size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the
> error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an xterm window,
> but I guess not.

The skins' tarballs are rerolled quite often. In that case your best
bet is to make distclean and try again. The tarballs will be re-fetched
and the port will build fine.

About the xterm thing, you copy text with the left mouse button and
paste it with them middle one.

Cheers,
--
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
[url]http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org[/url]
PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1


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[bsdnooby]

Miguel Mendez wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:07:37 -0500
>bsdnooby <bsdnooby@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>

>>I get an error when I try to install mplayer. Something about a fetch
>>size mismatch on Blue-1.4.tar.bz. I'm not sure how to cut and paste the
>>error, I thought the middle mouse button would cut from an xterm window,
>>but I guess not.
>>
>>

>
>The skins' tarballs are rerolled quite often. In that case your best
>bet is to make distclean and try again. The tarballs will be re-fetched
>and the port will build fine.
>
>About the xterm thing, you copy text with the left mouse button and
>paste it with them middle one.
>
>Cheers,
>
>

I guess I need to try again in a few hours.

I did a "make deinstall clean distclean" and then another "make install
clean", and it got the same error.

The first time I tried to install, I got a screen where I picked what
skins to support - I do not get that screen anymore. If I did, I could
choose a skin other than the "blue" one. I thought "distclean" would
have enabled me to start over from the very beginning, but it is somehow
remembering the skins I chose (I actually just took the default).

[Randi Harper]

> Here is the error:

>
> => Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
> fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
> mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
> => Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
> fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
> mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
> => Attempting to fetch from
> [url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/[/url].
> fetch:
> [url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url]
> size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221736
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer and try again.
> *** Error code 1

Cvsup'ed your ports tree recently? :)

[bsdnooby]

Randi Harper wrote:

>>Here is the error:
>>
>>=> Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
>>fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
>>mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
>>=> Attempting to fetch from [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/[/url].
>>fetch: [url]ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url] size
>>mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221733
>>=> Attempting to fetch from
>>[url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/[/url].
>>fetch:
>>[url]ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mplayer/Blue-1.4.tar.bz2:[/url]
>>size mismatch: expected 221761, actual 221736
>>=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>>=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer and try again.
>>*** Error code 1
>>
>>

>
>Cvsup'ed your ports tree recently? :)
>
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I hadn't thought of doing that, since I installed this system less than
a week ago. I will do it now, though. That should probably fix it.

thx!

[Miguel Mendez]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:44:39 -0500
bsdnooby <bsdnooby@optonline.net> wrote:

> I guess I need to try again in a few hours.
>
> I did a "make deinstall clean distclean" and then another "make install
> clean", and it got the same error.
>
> The first time I tried to install, I got a screen where I picked what
> skins to support - I do not get that screen anymore. If I did, I could
> choose a skin other than the "blue" one. I thought "distclean" would
> have enabled me to start over from the very beginning, but it is somehow
> remembering the skins I chose (I actually just took the default).

You have to run make distclean in the mplayer-skins port dir. If you
want to make changes run make config.

Cheers,
--
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
[url]http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org[/url]
PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1


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