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<span class="application">MPlayer</span> has been ported to a number of commercial
Unix variants. Since the development environments on these systems tend to be
different from those found on free Unixes, you may have to make some manual
adjustments to make the build work.
</p><div class="sect2" title="5.3.1. Solaris"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="solaris"></a>5.3.1. Solaris</h3></div></div></div><p>
Solaris still has broken, POSIX-incompatible system tools and shell in default
locations. Until a bold step out of the computing stone age is made, you will
have to add <tt class="filename">/usr/xpg4/bin</tt> to your
<code class="systemitem">PATH</code>.
</p><p>
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.
Use the SUN audio driver with the <tt class="option">-ao sun</tt> option for sound.
</p><p>
On <span class="bold"><strong>UltraSPARCs</strong></span>,
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> takes advantage of their
<span class="bold"><strong>VIS</strong></span> extensions
(equivalent to MMX), currently only in
<code class="systemitem">libmpeg2</code>,
<code class="systemitem">libvo</code>
and <code class="systemitem">libavcodec</code>, but not in
<code class="systemitem">mp3lib</code>. You can watch a VOB file
on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html" target="_top"><code class="systemitem">mLib</code></a>
installed.
</p><p><span class="bold"><strong>Caveat:</strong></span></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>
<span class="bold"><strong>mediaLib</strong></span> is
<span class="bold"><strong>currently disabled</strong></span> by default in
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> because of brokenness. SPARC users
who build MPlayer with mediaLib support have reported a thick,
green-tint on video encoded and decoded with libavcodec. You may enable
it if you wish with:
</p><pre class="screen">./configure --enable-mlib</pre><p>
You do this at your own risk. x86 users should
<span class="bold"><strong>never</strong></span> use mediaLib, as this will
result in very poor MPlayer performance.
</p></li></ul></div><p>
On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter if
GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.
</p><p>
On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
configured to use the GNU assembler! The <span class="application">MPlayer</span>
code on the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions
that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler
<tt class="filename">/usr/ccs/bin/as</tt>.
</p><p>
The <tt class="filename">configure</tt> script tries to find out, which assembler
program is used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection
fails, use the
<tt class="option">--as=<em class="replaceable"><code>/wherever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</code></em></tt>
option to tell the <tt class="filename">configure</tt> script where it can find GNU
"as" on your system).
</p><p>Solutions to common problems:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>
Error message from <tt class="filename">configure</tt> on a Solaris x86 system
using GCC without GNU assembler:
</p><pre class="screen">
% configure
...
Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...</pre><p>
(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with
<tt class="option">--with-as=gas</tt>)
</p><p>
Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does not
use GNU as:
</p><pre class="screen">
% gmake
...
gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
-fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
Assembler: mplayer.c
"(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
"(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
</pre><p>
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> may segfault when decoding
and encoding video that uses the win32codecs:
</p><pre class="screen">
...
Trying to force audio codec driver family acm...
Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders
sysi86(SI86DSCR): Invalid argument
Couldn't install fs segment, expect segfault
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
...</pre><p>
This is because of a change to sysi86() in Solaris 10 and pre-Solaris
Nevada b31 releases. This has been fixed in Solaris Nevada b32;
however, Sun has yet to backport the fix to Solaris 10. The MPlayer
Project has made Sun aware of the problem and a patch is currently in
progress for Solaris 10. More information about this bug can be found
at:
<a class="ulink" href="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6308413" target="_top">http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6308413</a>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Due to bugs in Solaris 8,
you may not be able to play DVD discs larger than 4 GB:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle"><li class="listitem"><p>
The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 has a bug when accessing a disk block >4GB
on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE
(i.e. CD-ROM and DVD media).
Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is accessed
(<a class="ulink" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516" target="_top">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</a>).
This problem does not exist in the SPARC version of Solaris 8.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) file system code (AKA ISO9660),
hsfs may not not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data is
accessed modulo 4GB
(<a class="ulink" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592" target="_top">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</a>).
The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing
patch 109764-04 (SPARC) / 109765-04 (x86).
</p></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect2" title="5.3.2. HP-UX"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="hp-ux"></a>5.3.2. HP-UX</h3></div></div></div><p>
Joe Page hosts a detailed HP-UX <span class="application">MPlayer</span>
<a class="ulink" href="http://users.rcn.com/joepage/mplayer_on_hpux11.htm" target="_top">HOWTO</a>
by Martin Gansser on his homepage. With these instructions the build should
work out of the box. The following information is taken from this HOWTO.
</p><p>
You need GCC 3.4.0 or later and SDL 1.2.7 or later.
HP cc will not produce a working program, prior GCC versions are buggy.
For OpenGL functionality you need to install Mesa and the gl and gl2 video
output drivers should work, speed may be very bad, depending on the CPU speed,
though. A good replacement for the rather poor native HP-UX sound system is
GNU esound.
</p><p>
Create the DVD device
scan the SCSI bus with:
</p><pre class="screen">
# ioscan -fn
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
...
ext_bus 1 8/16/5 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in SCSI
target 3 8/16/5.2 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 4 8/16/5.<span class="bold"><strong>2</strong></span>.<span class="bold"><strong>0</strong></span> sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE <span class="bold"><strong>PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305</strong></span>
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 <span class="bold"><strong>/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0</strong></span>
target 4 8/16/5.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl <span class="bold"><strong>1</strong></span> 8/16/5.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
/dev/rscsi/c1t7d0 /dev/rscsi/c1t7l0 /dev/scsi/c1t7l0
...
</pre><p>
The screen output shows a Pioneer DVD-ROM at SCSI address 2.
The card instance for hardware path 8/16 is 1.
</p><p>
Create a link from the raw device to the DVD device.
</p><pre class="screen">
ln -s /dev/rdsk/c<em class="replaceable"><code><SCSI bus instance></code></em>t<em class="replaceable"><code><SCSI target ID></code></em>d<em class="replaceable"><code><LUN></code></em> /dev/<em class="replaceable"><code><device></code></em>
</pre><p>
Example:
</p><pre class="screen">ln -s /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 /dev/dvd</pre><p>
</p><p>
Below are solutions for some common problems:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>
Crash at Start with the following error message:
</p><pre class="screen">
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: finite (code) from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00/3.2/../../../libGL.sl</pre><p>
</p><p>
This means that the function <code class="systemitem">.finite().</code> is not
available in the standard HP-UX math library.
Instead there is <code class="systemitem">.isfinite().</code>.
Solution: Use the latest Mesa depot file.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Crash at playback with the following error message:
</p><pre class="screen">
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Unresolved symbol: sem_init (code) from /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.sl.0</pre><p>
</p><p>
Solution: Use the extralibdir option of configure
<tt class="option">--with-extralibdir="/usr/lib -lrt"</tt>
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
MPlayer segfaults with a message like this:
</p><pre class="screen">
Pid 10166 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space, or stack size exceeded maxssiz.
Segmentation fault</pre><p>
</p><p>
Solution:
The HP-UX kernel has a default stack size of 8MB(?) per process.(11.0 and
newer 10.20 patches let you increase <code class="systemitem">maxssiz</code> up to
350MB for 32-bit programs). You need to extend
<code class="systemitem">maxssiz</code> and recompile the kernel (and reboot).
You can use SAM to do this.
(While at it, check out the <code class="systemitem">maxdsiz</code> parameter for
the maximum amount of data a program can use.
It depends on your applications, if the default of 64MB is enough or not.)
</p></li></ul></div><p>
</p></div><div class="sect2" title="5.3.3. AIX"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="aix"></a>5.3.3. AIX</h3></div></div></div><p>
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> builds successfully on AIX 5.1,
5.2, and 5.3, using GCC 3.3 or greater. Building
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> on AIX 4.3.3 and below is
untested. It is highly recommended that you build
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> using GCC 3.4 or greater,
or if you are building on POWER5, GCC 4.0 is required.
</p><p>
CPU detection is still a work in progress.
The following architectures have been tested:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>604e</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>POWER3</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>POWER4</p></li></ul></div><p>
The following architectures are untested, but should still work:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>POWER</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>POWER2</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>POWER5</p></li></ul></div><p>
</p><p>
Sound via the Ultimedia Services is not supported, as Ultimedia was
dropped in AIX 5.1; therefore, the only option is to use the AIX Open
Sound System (OSS) drivers from 4Front Technologies at
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.opensound.com/aix.html" target="_top">http://www.opensound.com/aix.html</a>.
4Front Technologies freely provides OSS drivers for AIX 5.1 for
non-commercial use; however, there are currently no sound output
drivers for AIX 5.2 or 5.3. This means <span class="bold"><strong>AIX 5.2
and 5.3 are not capable of MPlayer audio output, presently.</strong></span>
</p><p>Solutions to common problems:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>
If you encounter this error message from <tt class="filename">./configure</tt>:
</p><pre class="screen">
$ ./configure
...
Checking for iconv program ... no
No working iconv program found, use
--charset=US-ASCII to continue anyway.
Messages in the GTK-2 interface will be broken then.</pre><p>
This is because AIX uses non-standard character set names; therefore,
converting MPlayer output to another character set is currently not
supported. The solution is to use:
</p><pre class="screen">$ ./configure --charset=noconv</pre><p>
</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="sect2" title="5.3.4. QNX"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="qnx"></a>5.3.4. QNX</h3></div></div></div><p>
You'll need to download and install SDL for QNX. Then run
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> with <tt class="option">-vo sdl:driver=photon</tt>
and <tt class="option">-ao sdl:nto</tt> options, it should be fast.
</p><p>
The <tt class="option">-vo x11</tt> output will be even slower than on Linux,
since QNX has only X <span class="emphasis"><em>emulation</em></span> which is very slow.
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