Hi All,

I have ftp'd two .mpg, and one .avi file to /myth/video and tried to play them using knoppmyth with no result. I looked in setup to find the command line args used for playing video with mplayer and decided to test it from the command line with the following results...

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Running the following command:
/usr/local/bin/mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv /myth/video/bluewaves.mpg

Gives the following message:
MPlayer 0.92-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/mythtv/.mplayer/config
Illegal instruction

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If I just run mplayer without options:
/usr/local/bin/mplayer /myth/video/bluewaves.mpg

I get the following:
MPlayer 0.92-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/mythtv/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/mythtv/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/mythtv/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
Illegal instruction

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Anyone seen this before, any help would be appreciated.
jpummill

My system is as follows,
ASUS-P2B-DS Motherboard with 2 PII-400 CPU's
Matrox 32MB G400 Video Card
Diamond mx300 Sound Card (aureal2)
Knoppmyth R4.2

first guess would be that you installed for i686, and you needed to install for i586.

doesn't a Pentium2 processor constitute i686. I thought that the old Pentium processor was considered i586....

I was having trouble with mplayer giving the "illegal instruction" and what I end up doing is recompile the mplayer that came with knoppmyth. If you look at the bottom of the installation instruction, you'll see where the source files are located. Less the README (i think it was readme) for how to compile and install it.

If you'll look at that log output you posted you'll notice that your processor only has mmx and nothing else, however the mplayer you are trying to use was compiled with mmx mmx2 sse 3dnow etc.

From the documentation

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

ok, sorry for wasting everyone's time on this one. I just assumed that even though it was compiled on an AthlonXP, you guys would have still used a default of i586 or i686 for the compile flag.

I will recompile it. (should I recompile everything???)

Thanks again for the help by they way!!!
jpummill

just recompile the MPlayer-0.90rc5-patched.tar.bz2

(unzip and untar it)

then follow the README in the Mplayer directory on how to configure, compile, and install..

You don't need to recompile everything, just MPlayer.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

shouldn't he be able to just use the i586 packages and not even have to recompile? or did you ditch the 586 packages?

The i586 package is only for MythTV. The reason, I didn't compile MPlayer for generic x86 was because I hobbled it and figured folks would recompile it to get additional features cough cough.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

ahhh oh well I never have had any need to recompile it. Even in it's hobbled form it does everything I need.

I have the same problem with my Althlon900.. Illegal instruction..

I'd been playing with Xine, but maybe i'll go recompile mplayer to see if it looks any better.