For those whom it may interest.
What are the things needed to play HD-DVD movies in open-source multimedia player?
- Decrypted movie (use this tool)
- Demuxer support
- Video decoder
- Audio decoder
EVO demuxer is really just slightly modified MPEG stream demuxer. FFmpeg and MPlayer fresh SVN versions support it (MPlayer was there first). I don’t know about other multimedia players but that’s quite easy to implement.
Video decoding: there are three possible choices – MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1. First two should work fine, the last one should work but with some bugs (I will fix them eventually).
Audio decoding: is also tricky – standard AC3 audio will work, DTS is supported via libdca and E-AC3 is still to be figured out.
Conclusion – try current SVN of MPlayer and see if it works to you. And if you care about Blu-Ray support (and it does not work) – please provide a sample.
I’ve been following the mplayer and ffmpeg mailing lists on this subject with great anticipation. Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work!!
Thanks you very much Kostya for all your hard work.
How do I try this out on a Mac Intel?
I usually use MPlayer OS X or VLC.
Do I have to compile something (if yes, is there an easy guide) or someone willing to help me out?
Thanks in advance 🙂
/Martin
PS. I have set up an FTP account for you with Blu-ray samples.
Check your E-mail please… And I hope you can help me out too, with my question above 🙂
Regards
Martin
Try to compile it yourself (you must have gcc installed, should be installed either by default or with XCode).
1. Download snapshot from http://www.mplayerhq.hu (section “Downloads”)
2. Unpack it into some directory
3. Run “Terminal” (Applications/Utilities),
4. Change to the directory with unpacked sources (“cd /MacOSX/Users/…/”)
5. Run “./configure”
6. If the previous step has succeeded, run make.
This should work.
And some tips on usage:
test playing with ./mplayer
and this hack may also work: open MPlayer OSX (command “Show Package Contents” in Finder) and in Contents/Resources/External_Binaries do the same with mplayer. Replace Contents/MacOS/mplayer in it with fresh compiled binary and your MPlayerOSX will have the new heart ;). Just don’t forget to save backup copy somewhere.
Hi Kostya
It works fine until I type “make”. It doesnt create a binary 🙁
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imac:~/mplayer/mplayer-export-2007-02-08 Martin$ make
make -C libvo libvo.a
make[1]: `libvo.a’ is up to date.
make -C libao2
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C input
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libmpcodecs
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libaf
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libmpdemux libmpdemux.a
make[1]: `libmpdemux.a’ is up to date.
make -C stream
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libswscale LIBPREF=lib LIBSUF=.a
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libvo libosd.a
make[1]: `libosd.a’ is up to date.
make -C libavformat LIBPREF=lib LIBSUF=.a
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libavcodec LIBPREF=lib LIBSUF=.a
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C libavutil LIBPREF=lib LIBSUF=.a
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C loader
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make -C mp3lib
cc -I. -I.. -Wdeclaration-after-statement -O4 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -mdynamic-no-pic -falign-loops=16 -DSYS_DARWIN -DCONFIG_DARWIN -shared-libgcc -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -c -o dct64_MMX.o dct64_MMX.c
{standard input}:11:Missing operand value assumed absolute 0.
make[1]: *** [dct64_MMX.o] Error 1
make: *** [mp3lib/libMP3.a] Error 2
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What should I do to fix this?
Thanks!
/Martin
1. run “make clean”
2. run “./configure –disable-mp3lib”
3. run make
If it will fail on some other file with MMX or SSE then redo with ./configure –disable-mmx – it will be slow but working
And as always, Google is not only a registered trademark but also a word meaning some useful action 😉
Update:
I wrote “./configure –disable-mp3lib” and then I could run “make” afterwards and it compiled!
Is that the right way to do it?
I can play .EVO files from Batman Begins & Superman Returns now, but NO sound. And the video is very laggy.
I use CoreVideo in Preferences.
Is this the correct setup? Can I get sound?
Thanks
Martin 🙂
>I wrote “./configure –disable-mp3lib†and then I could run “make†afterwards and it compiled!
>Is that the right way to do it?
If it can decode MP3s (and it should) then all is correct.
As for audio issues – I suspect that these files have E-AC3 tracks which are currently are not supported 🙁
And video issues – CoreVideo is fine but video decoding takes a lot of time. It plays about in 1,2-1,7 times slower than realtime on my PPC 1.42GHz (and that’s without sound). Anyway, x86 decoding may be optimized a bit more too.
Do you have any idea if or when E-AC3 support will work? – Is it hard to implement?
I can only play the video if I select CoreVideo. Other settings fail.
I have a 2.16 Core 2 Duo iMac, 2GB RAM. The CPU is not maxed out, but there is still a bit of lag. I guess the codec have to be optimized?
PS. Did you check the FTP E-mail I sent you?
I can play Blu-ray .m2ts in VLC (haven’t tried MPlayer yet) with video and sound, but only audio tracks 2, 3, 4 etc. I guess audio track 1 is E-AC3 and that’s why it won’t play?
Regards
Martin