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3.7 KiB
54 lines
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KMPlayer, a simple frontend for MPlayer/FFMpeg/Xine.
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It can play DVD/VCD movies, from file or url and from a video device.
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If setup right, KMPlayer can embed inside konqueror. Which means if you click
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on a movie file, the movie is played inside konqueror.
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It can also embed inside khtml, enabling movie playback inside a html page.
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Movie recording using mencoder (part of the mplayer package). No video during recording, but you can always open a new window and play it there.
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Broadcasting, http streaming, by using ffserver/ffmpeg. For TV sources, you need v4lctl (part of the xawtv package).
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KMPlayer needs KDE3.1 and a working mplayer/mencoder somewhere in you PATH.
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Additonally, for broadcasting, ffserver/ffmpeg/v4lctl also.
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For DVD navigation Xine is used. MPlayer has broken dvdnav support. DVDNav is included in libxine and works fine.
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Unless you reconfigure kmplayer, both mplayer and ffmpeg should be compiled with liblame for mp3.
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Quickly installing MPlayer
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Download the sources from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/.
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If you want quicktime support, also download the quicktime dll's
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(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2) and unpack
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them and copy the files to /usr/lib/win32 (make this dir if it doesn't exist).
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Or download the 'All in one' package and have even more codecs.
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Untar the mplayer source package (tar xfj MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2), change to
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that directory. Make sure $KDEDIR/bin is in you path (check if you can run
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'artsplay').
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Now run configure (./configure) and make ('make'). Install it as root ('su -c "make install"').
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Finally you must setup the config files in ~/.mplayer ('mkdir ~/.mplayer').
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Copy the files, from the mplayer sources, etc/codecs.conf and etc/example.conf as codecs.conf and config resp
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('cp etc/codecs.conf ~/.mplayer; cp etc/example.conf ~/.mplayer/config').
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Next change ~/.mplayer/config with an editor and change the video driver (vo=xv) and audio driver (ao=arts) and remove the last line.
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Quickly installing Xine
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Download the sources for libxine (xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz) from http://xinehq.de. Unpack it (tar xfz xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz) and change to this directory (cd xine-lib-1-beta12). Now run configure (./configure) and make ('make'). Install it as root ('su -c "make install"').
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Recommended, for encrypted DVDs, install libdvdcss from http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss too.
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Xine can use the codecs for MPlayer in /usr/lib/win32, however it can't find
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the real codecs in there. Eg run
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$ strings /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_real.so |grep drv
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after installing to see where it looks for the Real codecs. Either copy or
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symlink for Xine to find them.
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Quickly installing ffmpeg/ffserver
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Download the sources from http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/. If the current version is 0.4.6, I recommend using a more recent CVS snapshot because it uses less CPU when grabbing a TV device.
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Untar the source package, run './configure --enable-mp3lame' and 'make'. Install as root 'su -c "make install"'.
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KMPlayer doesn't work with all the video drivers that mplayer supports.
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I tested only xv (X Video Extension) and x11 (Image/Shm). If none work, you
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might try the patch for the x11 driver and see if that works for you (not needed anymore for mplayer version >= 0.90-rc4).
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You might need to change mimetype settings (Control Center | KDE Components | File Associations) to make sure KMPlayer (or 'Embedded MPlayer for KDE' in embedded tab) is set for all the formats you want to play with KMPlayer.
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Also make sure in the 'Embedding' tab 'Show file in embedded viewer' is set.
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If you run an older versio of MPlayer (0.9x), set 'Post MPlayer 0.90=false' in
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.kde/share/config/kmplayer.rc under group [MPlayer]. It will change some of the
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mencoder arguments (for recording).
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Enjoy!
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