Mplayer - How to Install on PS3

[Zoned]

I installed mplayer successfully this past weekend. Here is a How To:


Step 1
Download mplayer and essential codecs from mplayerhq.hu, save them (do not unpack them) in Desktop or other folder under root

[Please register to see this link. ] (mplayer)
[Please register to see this link. ] (codecs)
[Please register to see this link. ] (skin)

Step 2
Open a terminal window in your PS3 (logged in as root), then copy and paste the entire command below into terminal window in order to unpack and compile mplayer:

cd `find /root -iregex .*mplayer[**/]*tar.* | perl -ne 's/(**.*)/.*$/$1/; print;'`
tar -xvf `ls | grep -i mplayer | grep -i ".tar."`
cd `ls | grep -i mplayer | grep -v ".tar."`
./configure --enable-gui

Step 3
Then type in "make" in the terminal window and hit ENTER, then "make install" after that and hit ENTER

Step 4
Copy & paste this command to unpack and move codec to /usr/local/lib/codecs:

cd `find /root -iregex .*essential[**/]*tar.* | perl -ne 's/(**.*)/.*$/$1/; print;'`
tar -xvf `ls | grep -i essential | grep -i ".tar."`
mv `ls | grep -i mplayer | grep -v ".tar."` /usr/local/lib/codecs

Step 5
You must install a "Skin" or GUI interface in order to use mplayer with a GUI. When you downloaded files in Step 1, make sure you selected a Skin. Example, unpack the Skin Blue-1.7.tar.bz2 and copy to /usr/local/share/mplayer/skin/default (you may need to create "default" folder)
I also downloaded the Dushku skin, its pretty nice.

Step 6
Type mplayer from a Terminal window or gmplayer (gui version)

With gmplayer running, you have a GUI that allows you to select the source file or stream

Will post pics later.

[endorf]

Hey, the second link for the downloads doesn't work. Is it the correct one?

[Zoned]

My apologies, I fixed the link.

[endorf]

Originally Posted by Zoned

My apologies, I fixed the link.

Cool, I was gonna ask you if that was the right one, and it is. Thanks!

[Zoned]

When you run gmplayer (GUI) version for the first time, you are going to get an error:

"New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subont.ttf)"

This is because the GUI needs to have a font associated with it for sub-titles.
So what I did was I opened up terminal window and did a search for fonts:

find / -name '*.ttf'

This will give you a long list of all of the ttf fonts in your system. I picked one called luxisr.ttf, found at:
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf

I opened up Nautilus and navigated to that directory and copied luxisr.ttf (you can pick any font with a ttf extension) and pasted it into the usr/local/share/mplayer/ directory.
I then renamed luxisr.ttf to subfont.ttf

then start up gmplayer again, it works.

[Zoned]

Another way to get the "freshest" version of mplayer downloaded is to get the SVN version of mplayer source code. Run this as root in terminal window (cut and paste into command line and hit ENTER):

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd mplayer
./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu
--enable-dynamic-plugins && make && sudo make install

Then follow the mplayer instructions for installing fonts, skins, and
binary codecs. You will need the PPC version of the codecs collection,
but it doesn't have anywhere near the number of codecs as the x86
version. On the other hand, most of the missing codecs are for obscure
formats.

[nmc75]

man, the walkthrough is awesome. I'm almost done, I can feel it. When I type gmplayer I get this fatal message

[skin] file (usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin) not readable

It dumps me back out to the terminal at that point. I've tried multiple skins but all of them have that message. Any Ideas

[haxen]

wow, u are close, are your skins files in that last directoy exactly as the error message calls for?

OK, I am logged in here with my PS3, and here is the setup:

say u downloaded the Blue theme, you want to unpack or unzip the tar into the

usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/ directory

OK, so you extract the skin files into the default directory, not a skins diirectory.

You can dl other skins and put them in the usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ directory in their own folders and just point gmplayer to that new skin directory after it opens, instead of the default skin. I have 3 skins, 1 is in the default directory and the other two are in their own directories that i named and created, all 3 of these folders are in the skins directory. I like the dushku skin and the blue skin.

[nmc75]

I'm assuming so. The command set I'm using to unpack and relocate the skin is
[quote]cd `find /root -iregex .*abyss[**/]*tar.* | perl -ne 's/(**.*)/.*$/$1/; print;'`
tar -xvf `ls | grep -i abyss | grep -i ".tar."`
mv `ls | grep -i abyss | grep -v ".tar."` /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin]

I have tried both the HTTP and FTP versions of the download and both tell me they're not readable.
I don't know??

[haxen]

whoah, u are doing too much work there. when u download the skin, it should ask u where u want to save the tar file. i created a downloads directory and always put them in there. by the way, i downloaded the skin with the firefox browser. once the tar is downloaded, (takes few seconds) then i open up nautilus and navigate to the downloads folder (or wherrever you put the tar), click on the tar and a winzip type app opens up. Click on Edit in the menu and then Extract and then point it to the usr etc. folder deal that i posted above. you can create a directory with nautilus if it is not there. then run gmplayer again.