I'm tryin to playback a .mp4 video file but I don't have the codecs for it. I downloaded the AAC codecs which I read have support for mp4 as well from here but when I try to compile them I get a few errors: Code: [landon@localhost ~]$ cd /home/landon/Download/faad2 [landon@localhost faad2]$ su Password: [root@localhost faad2]# autoreconf -vif autoreconf-2.5x: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.5x: configure.in: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.5x: running: aclocal --output=aclocal.m4t autoreconf-2.5x: `aclocal.m4' is created autoreconf-2.5x: configure.in: tracing autoreconf-2.5x: running: libtoolize --copy --force autoreconf-2.5x: `aclocal.m4' is unchanged autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force autoreconf-2.5x: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing configure.in: installing `./install-sh' configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs' configure.in: installing `./missing' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' common/mp4ff/Makefile.am: installing `./compile' common/mp4ff/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory plugins/bmp does not exist plugins/xmms/src/Makefile.am:2: libdir was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_BMP_TRUE ... configure.in:10: ... `libdir' previously defined here. plugins/xmms/src/Makefile.am:8: libdir was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_BMP_FALSE ... plugins/Makefile.am:5: required directory plugins/bmp does not exist plugins/xmms/src/Makefile.am:2: libdir was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_BMP_TRUE ... configure.in:10: ... `libdir' previously defined here. plugins/xmms/src/Makefile.am:8: libdir was already defined in condition TRUE, which implies condition HAVE_BMP_FALSE ... autoreconf-2.5x: automake failed with exit status: 1 [root@localhost faad2]# ./configure --with-mp4v2 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... no checking for f77... no checking for xlf... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for f90... no checking for xlf90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for epcf90... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for xlf95... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for gfortran... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc static flag works... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for rpmbuild... rpmbuild checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking mathf.h usability... no checking mathf.h presence... no checking for mathf.h... no checking float.h usability... yes checking float.h presence... yes checking for float.h... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for memcpy... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking errno.h usability... yes checking errno.h presence... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking sysfs/libsysfs.h usability... no checking sysfs/libsysfs.h presence... no checking for sysfs/libsysfs.h... no checking IOKit/IOKitLib.h usability... no checking IOKit/IOKitLib.h presence... no checking for IOKit/IOKitLib.h... no checking for getpwuid... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for off_t... yes checking for float32_t temp... no checking for strsep... yes checking for mpeg4ip-config... no configure: no xmms build configured configure: error: conditional "HAVE_BMP" was never defined. Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally. [root@localhost faad2]# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. [root@localhost faad2]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. Anyone know how to fix this or use an alternative method for gaining mp4 playback?
Is that Faad you are trying to install? Why do you have the desire to compile everything when there are packages available? Have you install the libxine-extra codecs and win32codecs-all packages? EDIT: Have you tried playing it in MPlayer? Xine is pants
Where can I find the libxine-extra codecs, I googled for 'em and I dont see much comin up. And I'm not seeing an rpm package on Mplayer's site for mandriva, just these: Code: MPlayer v1.0pre8 source MPlayer 1.0pre8 Windows build experimental Windows GUI build MPlayer OS X 1.0pre8 Red Hat / Fedora RPM packages *EDIT* used urpmi but this is what it did: Code: Preparing... ############################################# 1/9: liblame0 ############################################# 2/9: libxvid4 ############################################# 3/9: liblirc0 ############################################# 4/9: libtwolame0 ############################################# 5/9: libenca0 ############################################# 6/9: libdha1.0 ############################################# 7/9: libdirectfb0.9_22 ############################################# 8/9: libfaac0 ############################################# 9/9: mplayer ############################################# [root@localhost landon]# This is what happens when I open the mp4 file in mplayer:
MPEG-4 audio is aac, MPEG-4 video is divx and quicktime. Is this a quicktime file? Having the faac libraries will not help with the video. I understand that mplayer supports quicktime and divx by default. See here. *.mp4 files are usually quicktime.
do you have the xine libraries installed? That should give you playback for that file unless it has the wrong extension. It is possible that the file is windows media and you will need the win32 codecs for that.
I'm pretty sure I've installed the win32 codecs since I can play wmv files, etc. How do I check to see if the xine libraries are installed? *EDIT* these are the packages I have installed containing "xine": Code: libxine1 libxine1-devel xine-arts xine-plugins xinetd
kenji san is right, you need your PLF Free and PLF Non-Free repos setup. Then you can install it right from your package manager; no need to download & install Windows style.
Hmm it turns out it was doing that because it was an incomplete torrent file, but it was around 95% complete, so I thought if I can open incomplete videos in windows it'd work in linux, guess not.
