Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-21, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM -0000 schrieb Grant Edwards: >>>> On 2025-02-20, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess >>>>>> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded. >>>>> I'm getting some help off list from another Michael. O_O He suggested >>>>> several USE flag changes. Some I never heard of. >>>> Ask ffmpeg what's in the file. Then you'll _know_ what encoder(s) >>>> were used and what USE flags you need. >>> The command to just get file information is ffprobe. Its output is >>> very dense. I recommend mediainfo for a more human-friendly >>> output. It also comes with an optional GUI. >> The other Michael asked for ffprobe info, off list. > He's right, that's what you need to do (or something equivalent) so > that you know what codec you're missing. > >> I enabled some USE flags and tried to recompile with those. It >> failed on some, again. I'm giving it another go now. > So are you trying to figure out why you can't play those .mkv files, > or just trying to get mplayer to build? I'll once again point out > that mplayer seems to by dying (hasn't had a new version released in 3 > years). Most users seem to have moved to mpv. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MPlayer: > > Note > > MPlayer is not very actively maintained anymore, but still > alive. However, its fork MPV is active and it comes with some extra > features too. > > -- > Grant > > >
Well, Micheal helped me with USE flags. I needed some that I had no idea about. Some related to hardware I have, or think I have since they may be to old. Some related to Vulkan. Anyway, after a lot of fiddling with USE flags, I still can't get gpac and mplayer to rebuild. I think it may just be a bug that needs to be worked on but the output is not something I can figure out. Funny thing is, despite gpac and mplayer not being able to build and put the changes into effect, the videos now play just fine. I suspect that at some point those bugs will be dealt with and they will build. In the meantime I can play the videos at least. I just don't have a clean output of emerge -auDN world is all. For a long time, I think Smplayer depended on mplayer. I've had times where Smplayer wouldn't play videos using mplayer so I went into preferences and changed it to use mpv. It seems to work just fine so unless something breaks, I'll leave it set to mpv. I guess I keep mplayer around just in case something pops up and I need it. I'm not sure what if anything actually needs it other than me just letting it sit there, just in case. If anyone has a idea on the original failure of gpac and mplayer, I'm open to test something to see if it works. Otherwise, maybe when I sync Sunday morning it will have a fix. If not, maybe it will the next week. One can hope. ;-) They are unstable packages so failing to build isn't surprising really. Most unstable packages do work fine but every once in a while, one fails. They do eventually get worked out. I just don't know if I should file a bug or if it is something related to me and what I'm doing. Dale :-) :-)
