Need player with RMVB support under Sab4.1 [Solved]

[lameismyname]

Hi there,

I'm a new user to sabayon linux. I'm not newbie to linux, just to this distribution. It gives me more problems than gentoo because of untested/beta things so I came here with a small question. Lack of time pushes me to ask.

How the hell can I run rmvb movies?

Need this very much. Tried installation of smplayer/kmplayer/mplayer - falied because of cmake version.
realcodecs - masked
realplayer - impossible to install
w32codecs - installed, no problem, but it gives me nothing
gxine - can't open RMVB
VLC and Dragon (out-of-the-box players) - can't open RMVB
Packages which really could help me are masked in emerge :/

Need some advice. Please reply.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Well, I'm just watching an RMBV sample now with MPlayer on SL 4.0-r1 x86 edition, so I can confirm that it is possible to watch RMBV videos with MPlayer. Below are the full package installation details.

eix output:

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# eix -I media-video/mplayer
[U] media-video/mplayer
     Available versions:  1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 (~)1.0_rc2_p28288 1.0_rc2_p28450 (~)1.0_rc2_p20090226 (~)1.0_rc2_p20090322 [M]**9999 {3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa altivec amrnb amrwb arts ass bidi bindist bl cddb cdio cdparanoia cpudetection custom-cflags custom-cpuopts debug dga dirac directfb doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dxr3 enca encode esd faac faad fbcon ftp ggi gif gtk iconv ipv6 jack joystick jpeg kernel_linux ladspa libcaca lirc live lzo mad md5sum mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 musepack nas nemesi network nut openal opengl osdmenu oss png pnm pulseaudio pvr quicktime radio rar real realcodecs rtc samba schroedinger sdl shm speex sse sse2 ssse3 svga teletext tga theora tremor truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vdpau video_cards_mga video_cards_nvidia video_cards_s3virge video_cards_tdfx video_cards_vesa vidix vorbis win32codecs x264 xanim xinerama xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zoran}
     Installed versions:  1.0_rc2_p28288(07:31:01 PM 05/30/2009)(3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa ass bidi bl cddb cdparanoia cpudetection dga dts dv dvb dvd encode ftp gif gtk iconv ipv6 jack joystick jpeg kernel_linux lirc live lzo mad md5sum mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 musepack openal opengl png pnm pulseaudio quicktime radio rar rtc sdl speex sse sse2 tga theora truetype unicode v4l v4l2 video_cards_vesa vidix vorbis win32codecs x264 xinerama xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zoran -altivec -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bindist -cdio -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dirac -directfb -doc -dvdnav -dxr3 -enca -esd -fbcon -ggi -ladspa -libcaca -nas -nemesi -oss -pvr -real -samba -schroedinger -ssse3 -svga -teletext -video_cards_mga -video_cards_s3virge -video_cards_tdfx -xanim)
     Homepage:            http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
     Description:         Media Player for Linux

equo search output:

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# equo search media-video/mplayer
>>  @@ Searching...
>>   #1 Sabayon Linux Official Repository
>>      @@ Package: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288          branch: 4
>>        Available:            version: 1.0_rc2_p28288 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>>        Installed:            version: 1.0_rc2_p28288 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
>>        Slot:                 0
>>        Homepage:             http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
>>        Description:          Media Player for Linux
>>        License:              GPL-2
>>      @@ Package: media-video/mplayer-resume-1.5              branch: 4
>>        Available:            version: 1.5 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>        Installed:            version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>>        Slot:                 0
>>        Homepage:             http://www.spaceparanoids.org/trac/bend/wiki/mplayer-resume
>>        Description:          MPlayer wrapper script to save/resume
>>                              playback position
>>        License:              public-domain
>>      @@ Package: media-video/mplayer-sh-0.8.7                branch: 4
>>        Available:            version: 0.8.7 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>        Installed:            version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>>        Slot:                 0
>>        Homepage:             http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/
>>        Description:          Video Disk Recorder Mplayer API
>>                              Script
>>        License:              as-is
>>      @@ Package: media-video/mplayerthumbs-0.5b              branch: 4
>>        Available:            version: 0.5b ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 1
>>        Installed:            version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>>        Slot:                 0
>>        Homepage:             http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=41180
>>        Description:          A Thumbnail Generator for Video
>>                              Files on Konqueror.
>>        License:              GPL-2
>>  Keyword:    media-video/mplayer
>>  Found:      4 entries

What edition of SL are you using? x86 or x86_64? GNOME or KDE?

[lameismyname]

Thanks for reply. I have Sabayon 4.1 KDE 32Bit.

Already fixed the problem by using equo... installed smplayer (which is based on mplayer). No problems.

Problems were when I was using emerge (cause I use it by default), almost nothing worked normally :/
When I read about sabayon that it's fully compatible with gentoo I think "ok, this must be a gentoo distribution which differents by only some pre-installed stuff" but in practise it's really different. There are some problems with portage and the kernel isn't the real from gentoo but at least it's supported by gentoo.

Just need to give this distro some time, it has a very good thing to me.... it's working

[Fitzcarraldo]

Please mark your threads as solved by adding "[Solved]" to the end of the Subject line in your first post. Click on EDIT in the first post to do it. I'll do it this time for you. Thanks.

[Fitzcarraldo]

By the way, I'm not sure what precisely you meant when you wrote that SMPlayer is "based on MPlayer". Actually, SMPlayer is a front-end for MPlayer. The application actually playing the video is still MPlayer. SMPlayer provides a nice GUI for the MPlayer 'engine'.