Pentium 4 crashes mplayer

[xenopeek]

and smplayer and mplay2. all of these crash on my pentium 4 system. I wrote to Julien Lavergne who made a patch.I was inquiring whether his program might work with my linux mint version. he said I should direct my inquiry to this community in the following email. the email summarizes my problem. hope I ain't breakin any rules by posting it. you can tell from my words what a noob I am. I would really like to get some of these media players going and I'm hoping someone will have a similar fix as Julien did for the Ubuntu crowd. Thanks.
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> Dear Julien,
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> I am writing you in regard to a bug that you addressed with the following post you made:
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> Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2012-10-16 : #11
> I made an update to mplayer2 package, trying to address the issue. It's available in my PPA https:/ /launchpad. net/~gilir/ +archive/ updates, only for Quantal (12.10). Can someone test this package to see if the issue is still here ? Thanks.
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> I am having this issue and I am using a pentium 4 2. 8ghz computer. I was having this issue with mplayer, and with smplayer as well. I removed them both and then discovered that mplayer2 is installed. at first I was looking for a gui, but eventually
> I caught on that I am supposed to run it from a command line. when I did so I was getting the same error as reported in the above discussion.
> I was so happy to see that you had resolved it but then I realized that I could not apply it since I am using Linux Mint Maya Cinnamon 32 bit. and I see that this is only for version 12.10 of Ubuntu? I have sampled the live Ubuntu and it is wonderful. but
> I am hoping you can help me with a patch for my linux mint. or is it possible that I can install your patch and it would work on Mint?
> Or maybe you know someone at Mint that can help me with this. I guess this Pentium 4 does not have the SSE3? Your help in this matter would be very much appreciated. I am a believer in Linux and am so proud for all it stands for. Thank you and have a nice day.
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Sorry, you have to contact Mint directly, I don't have any contact with them.
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[blockhead]

does anyone else,beside me still use a pentium 4 computer? and if you do have you managed to get mplayer or mplayer2 or smplayer running on that cpu? I can't seem to do it. I now that programmers have figured this problem out and wrote a patch for Ubuntu for this. Thanks

[nomko]

does anyone else,beside me still use a pentium 4 computer?

Yes, but not as my main desktop system. But as multimedia system connected to my LCD flatscreen tv.

and if you do have you managed to get mplayer or mplayer2 or smplayer running on that cpu?

I'm running Vlc as movie-/mediaplayer. (s)mplayer is installed as back-up player.

I can't seem to do it. I now that programmers have figured this problem out and wrote a patch for Ubuntu for this.

Since Mint is based on Ubuntu you could try that patch. Do you have a link to that patch/website?

[blockhead]

that is what ran thru my mind as well. this patch was written by Julien Lavergne. He has some PPA repository and apparently the patch is there and is downloadable. I will try and locate it. I did write direct to Julien, and I did run that idea past him. He made no comment on that. He only referred me to the linux mint community for answers.

[blockhead]

Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2012-10-16 : #11
> I made an update to mplayer2 package, trying to address the issue. It's available in my PPA https:/ /launchpad. net/~gilir/ +archive/ updates, only for Quantal (12.10). Can someone test this package to see if the issue is still here ? Thanks.

the above post was made by the Ubuntu Programmer Julien Lavergne. I am a newbie so not really sure how to access this patch for download. I would be willing to execute the patch on my pentium four to see if it fixes this issue in Linux Mint Maya Cinnamon 32 bit.

[nomko]

Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2012-10-16 : #11
> I made an update to mplayer2 package, trying to address the issue. It's available in my PPA https:/ /launchpad. net/~gilir/ +archive/ updates, only for Quantal (12.10). Can someone test this package to see if the issue is still here ? Thanks.

the above post was made by the Ubuntu Programmer Julien Lavergne. I am a newbie so not really sure how to access this patch for download. I would be willing to execute the patch on my pentium four to see if it fixes this issue in Linux Mint Maya Cinnamon 32 bit.

Ubuntu Quantal is the base for Mint 14 Nadia. So using that PPA shouldn't give any problems.

[blockhead]

Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2012-10-16 : #11
> I made an update to mplayer2 package, trying to address the issue. It's available in my PPA https:/ /launchpad. net/~gilir/ +archive/ updates, only for Quantal (12.10). Can someone test this package to see if the issue is still here ? Thanks.

the above post was made by the Ubuntu Programmer Julien Lavergne. I am a newbie so not really sure how to access this patch for download. I would be willing to execute the patch on my pentium four to see if it fixes this issue in Linux Mint Maya Cinnamon 32 bit.

Ubuntu Quantal is the base for Mint 14 Nadia. So using that PPA shouldn't give any problems.

I downloaded the following debian package from the link to the PPA mplayer2 2.0.554...i386.deb and when I go to
try and install it by right clicking the package installer opens and tries to run it and gives me the following error:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libavcodec53 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~)|libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 6:0.8.3)

Can someone have a look at the file I downloaded and help me to try and install it. I think this is the fixed version so that it will allow mplayer2 to be able to work on a Pentium 4 machine. Thanks very much.

[nomko]

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libavcodec53 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~)|libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 6:0.8.3)

The file you downloaded needs the libavcodec-extra-53 package but instead it found the libavcodec53 package, so if you install that required package the problem should be fixed.


I just gave that link to that PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive/ppa) a look and i discovered this: The PPA was intended for Ubuntu versions 7.10 up to and including 10.04. Not for newer versions. Keep in that in mind when you encounter some issues with this PPA. Best is to use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive/updates since this includes all versions. When you want to use this PPA for now and in the future, you can add in to your sourcelist by typing thie folowing command in a terminal;

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gilir/updates

and then press Enter. Foolow the instructions given in the terminal.

[blockhead]

I have added the ppa/updates archive to my synaptic manager and updated the software. when I put mplayer2 in the
search box it only comes up with one version, and I can't force the version because it is greyed out Can u please advise
me how to get the 2.0-554-gf63dbad-1ubuntu1~ppa3 ...there is also a mplayer2 file ending with ~ppa2.

how do I get this version instead of the one being offered by synaptic. thanks.

[blockhead]

I have downloaded the patched mplayer2 file and I have changed the libavcodec, but the version is still not the one
indicated in the error message ...6:0.8.1 ..still getting same error from synaptic.