How to compile mencoder for Athlon?
 

The title says it all.

So Vmesquita dont have to keep that job also updated. ;-)

1. What do I need to compile?
2. Which type of mencoder source I have to download?
3. What to do?
4. Thanks! :)

Re: How to compile mencoder for Athlon?
 

You need cygwin on Windows, and generally nothing else on linux.
The same source.
./configure
make

If you wanted a generic build, then you would use ./configure --enable-runtime-cpudetection
You're welcome!
:D

Thanks! Vmesquita!

I saw that there are also builds avaiable which do not need that cygwin1.dll :?
But no matter ;-)

Ahhh, now I got it, thats why I cant compile on my athlon an intel Build cause I can only compile under linux by doing the? ./configure & make lines

And by this on linux will result an exe ? 8O

No. You'll get "mencoder", and you run it as :arrow: ./mencoder

Unless you made a make && make install
Then, mencoder should be automatically installed, and you should be able to just run it by typing: mencoder

-kwag

Uops!

I meant I need a hint how to compile it for windows *lol*
I got now access to my Linux partition under windows 2000 via ext2fsd and can enter the "\root\MPlayer-1.0pre3try2" folder where I do see "mencoder"

I also installed cygwin via internet on my system Win2000.

What next?

Cause a simple adding of a suffix to that mencoder to mencoder.exe reacts in a message "Program too big for memory" :oops:

Hi inc,

nice idea.
Here is my compile (cvs:20040420, for AthlonXP systems):
mencoder self extracting file.
UPDATE: makeavi implemented, thanks VMesquita.

Sorry for the self-extracting file, but my webspace upload is limited to 1.5mb
:roll:
The compile is working for me, please let me know if you experience any problems.

Here's a short howto:

No matter if CygWin is used or MinWG ...

If I want to ./configure

Its stops by "GCC 2.96 IS NOT SUPPORTED BY US"

I tried to install the newer GCC but it also stops with an error about an "environment variable" ??!.

Well .... it seems that this "compiler" thing is not my friend! :(

Gcc 2.96 is abuggy version that nobody support, looks like for some reason you got cygwin with this version. :(
My advice: if you got broadband, wipe the cygwin folder and install folder, and download and install everything all over again. I'll be simpler than trying to fix. :wink:

@inc:
Which MSYS-Version have you downloaded :?:
I'm using an older one and already having gcc 3.2.3 8O

MSYS 1.0.10.exe from here http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=2435

Ok. I will try it on my second machine and report... Just a second...

You need to install MinGW and MSYS. First MinGW from here:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinG...1.exe?download
then
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS...0.exe?download
When the post-install of MSYS appears you have to give it the installation path of MinGW (with / instead of \).
MSYS only has gcc 2.x builtin...

Krassi

I did install totally from new ... everything like you explained ...


if I go into the menplayers folder and hit ./configure

this appears :

http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/i.../2004/04/3.gif

This appears if MSYS cannot find a compiler in the path. Have you installed the complete MinGW package :?:
Please verify your path in the post-install. You don't need to uninstall MSYS, just reinstall it.

IT RUNS!

I had also to install that mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe

And after that I had (to figure out by myself) that I had to copy make.exe from MinGW to MSys .. if not the command window installer from mSys tells me there's no make.exe found in MinGW!



.... well .. its compiling :) ... see which issues will come as next :lol:

Yep, it is written in the post-install.

Thank God I didn't run into any of these problems on my 1st attempt on compiling mencoder.
Else I would have forgot it right away.
Good luck on it Inc. :wink:

Krassi, no matter if I use your build or mine ... the log of MencoderME stops by saying this:

a codecs issue??

Hi Inc.,
Most probably!
Just try a VOB source instead of the makeAVIS your feeding mencoder with.
Tell us the results.
Cheers

Think so. You're using a capture codec, right :?:
Have you tried with a dvd source :?:
I will have a look in the configure options.

@vesmquita: Are you doing a plain configure command or are you using some parameters :?:
Thanks in advance.

Krassi

Nope Im going in using makeavis .... no problems with all builds before :?

DVD Source works! So its a complie/codecs thing i think.

Actually you need to replace the built-in codecs.conf with a copy that contains ffvfw reference, so mencoder can understand makeavis. You can get the codecs.conf I provided a while ago, search inside the source folder and replace the codecs.conf from the source with the one I provided. :wink:
Sorry I forgot this step. :oops:

Thank you, Vmesquita :!:
Now i can go to sleep :lol:

I've updated my compilation:
mencoder self extracting file.
Thank you again, VMesquita, seems to work now.

@inc: Can you test it :?:

Stop it :!: :lol:
I was just testing your previous build, and now I have to abort :twisted:

:lol:
-kwag

Hi guys,
Adding up to what VM recommended I would use his text:
and paste it into the latest codecs.conf file that you guys have in your just downloaded mencoder tarball.
You can find it in the tarball under:
/etc/codecs.conf
This way you'll benefit from the usage of makeAVIS plus the latest added codecs if necessary :wink:
Also I would always use Cygwin instead of MinGW for mencoder: although the filesize is higher it is faster when encoding 8O
Note: this will only work with makeAVIS that came with pure and plain FFvfw :!:
It will not work with makeAVIS that comes with latest FFdshow from Athos at Doom9 :roll:
At least on my PC...
Cheers guys

Same issue .... :oops:

and
Now the question is: has the poor guy (Krassi) gone to sleep :?: :lol:
Otherwise your best shot (Inc.) is asking VM to make a new build :wink:
'Cause I'm going to bed too 8)
Cheers guys

Yep, but the idea is that not everything will end up on Vmesquita as he is running on many things simultaniously! ;-)

And ... its nice if I can understand what Im doing & using 8) :D

For assurance, heres a "little part" of the beginning of my codecs.conf.h file in the Mplayer Directory after ./configure

As you can see "makeavis" is determined as found in the codecs.conf file I did change before in the "etc" Folder :?
I did NOT use a text edit appl. so the format structure of codecs.conf is in the state as it has to be.

Tonight I wanna get that CygWin running. Maybe that could help, or I still am doing something wrong, .. or there is a "change" in the newest CVS which doesn't allow makeavis :?

:oops:
I should have named it "alpha version" :lol:

@inc:
I will have a look at this again. @work i can only test/compile it during my timeouts :wink:

Ok,

i'm sitting in front of an Intel machine now, so i've compiled it with all cpu optimisations.
Here it is:
mencoder for Intel & AMD
Can somebody do a short test :?: Thanks.
Tomorrow evening i will be able to compile it on my Athlon system.

I think this won't run in any CPU :!:
Because if you compiled with all optimization, it means that you binary is optimized for 3dnow! and SSE2 at the same time, and there's no CPU capable of handling this. :(

@incredible
Did you do a:
before ./configure so the old compiled data is discarded? Also, I remembered that you have to include a build switch to enable win32 codecs. So please do configure with the following switches:
This will enable win32 codecs. large files (bigger than 2Gb support), make satic build (so the only needed DLL is cygwin1.dll), and change the configdir to a usable one, otherwise you won't be able to use a external configfile because it will point to a place that doesn't exist in windows.
Sorry for only remembering this now. :oops:

My friend ... what do you mean by this??

Cause I got this output now in cygWin:
To WHICH directory I have to point that confdir???

At least I found out that unknown parameter
it was....

./configure --enable-largefiles --enable-static --confdir=mplayer/ -- enable-win32

But still which directory should be used for confdir ???

Ahhh. now i check it, its the folder "mplayer" within the folder where mencoder will be stored!

I CANT BELEIVE IT, IT RUNS!!!!!
Even makeavis now works!!

And its fast! :D

I edited the post, it should be --enable-win32 as you figured out. The confdir parameter is to allow you to use external configuration files (one of them is codecs.conf). If you don't specify this, mencoder will look for configuration files in /home/username/.mplayer, which doesn't exists for windows. Now that the internal configfile already has MakeAVIS specified you probably won't need any other external configuration files, but if you post a compilation later and someone wants to use a different codecs.conf for some reason, he'll be able to do it. :wink:

EDIT:
To make the executable half its size, you can
And to make it half of the half smaller:
But you need the UPX package installed in cygwin for this to work. :wink:

i still can't get it to except makeavis source to work, even using this compile command line


does the --enable-largefiles work for other sources (jigdo for getting debian)

cheers

You also need to modify /etc/codecs.conf like rds_correa suggested before, have you done that? This enable-largefiles may work with other sources which configure has this option. :wink:

my fault, i forget to do this :oops:

Still not working ...

Here is my output