RFE: Include AMR-enabled mplayer

[Roman Polach]

Now medibuntu includes ffmpeg + libavcodec that seems to contain support for AMR according to changelogs.
But unfortunately, mplayer and mencoder have statically linked own libavcodec, so they cannot profit from AMR-enabled libavcodec.
So could you also add AMR-enabled versions of mplayer and mencoder to Medibuntu/Feisty repository?

[Albin Tonnerre (lutin)]

what does RFE stand for ?
Btw, I'm not sure we are going to do that for the moment as we're at a very early stage of developpement for gutsy, but we'll have a look at it to see if it's possible to handle this
Cheers

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

RFE = Request For Enhancement iirc.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

AMR becomes more popular due to its use in mobile phones,
fortunately free AMR support in libavcodec is a subject to Google SoC 2007, so we will see...
but until then it would be nice to have it in medibuntu's mplayer too.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Why is this bug still in "Needs Info" status?

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

There was no good reason. ;)

[Arthur Loiret (arthur.loiret)]

Uploaded on medibuntu, here is the debdiff.
Thanks.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Is it really available? I still don't see any mplayer package in medibuntu repository..

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

That's available only for gutsy i386, and only on the new repository/site (we are actually testing it, and it should be deployed on the 15th if everything goes well).

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

In Gutsy I tried mplayer 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu11+medibuntu1.
(I had to use force this version because this version is normally updated to (non-medibuntu) 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.)

But it still does not play AMR files...
So should this bug be reopened?

Mplayer output is: -----------------------------------

MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu11+medibuntu1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Menu inited: /home/roman/.mplayer/menu.conf

Playing sample.amr.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

Exiting... (End of file)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Reopening, the packaging is wrong, amr support wasn't enabled in our previous merges...
Thanks for noticing this. ;)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

ffmpeg was broken too...

I fixed both, they'll show up as soon as the binary packages are built.
Thanks.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Today update manager lets me update mplayer to 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13+medibuntu2
but I still get this error:

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$ mplayer sample.amr
MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13+medibuntu2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Menu inited: /home/roman/.mplayer/menu.conf

Playing sample.amr.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll

Exiting... (End of file)

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

I also tried update mplayer to 1.0 rc2 backport for gutsy and compile amrnb and amrwb downloaded
from http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr but I get the same error... could this be because mplayer still search for avisynth.dll
but compiled libraries are named libamrnb.so etc.. ?

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Please reopen this bug, the problem is still NOT fixed.

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

The mplayer in Gutsy cannot play 3gp files with AMR audio-tracks.

  Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
  Cannot find codec 'libamr_nb' in libavcodec...

[Vladimir Hidalgo (vlad88sv)]

This is very frustrating:

============================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Cannot find codec 'libamr_nb' in libavcodec...
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x726D6173.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
============================================

When trying to convert an mp4 file with Ubuntu repository mencoder.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

AMR has important licensing restrictions and is covered by several patents. Currently there is no way to freely distribute it unless potentially breaking local laws.

I've documented what I found in a similar gstreamer-related bug:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/184555

This basically means there will most likely never be official support for AMR in Ubuntu unless this is resolved otherwise.

So, marking this as wishlist, incomplete for now.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

We can't legally fix this in Ubuntu at this time.

[Danil Smirnov (danil-smirnov)]

I have met this bag also... Should I consider it like eternal?

[Pavel Petrovic (ppetrovic)]

eternal indeed.
strange though that it is not possible to use the OpenCORE's libopencore-amrnb instead?

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

On Di, Apr 06, 2010 at 15:39:30 (CEST), Pavel Petrovic wrote:

> eternal indeed.
> strange though that it is not possible to use the OpenCORE's libopencore-amrnb instead?

license wise, yes, I think so.

technically, AFAIUI mplayer rc3 doesn't support libopencore-amr. if
trunk supports this, perhaps this can be backported?

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