Movie example does not work on Linux

[uwekel]

Hi,
when i try to run the movie example program provided with PB, i run into the following error:



Did anyone get it working on Linux or even Fedora 19?

Best regards
Uwe

[minimy]

Hi, do you have xine installed?
http://www.xine-project.org/home

[uwekel]

I think so:

[uwe@desktop ~]$ yum list *xine*
Geladene Plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installierte Pakete
xine-lib.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-devel.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-extras.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-extras-freeworld.i686 1.1.21-6.fc19 @rpmfusion-free
xine-ui.i686 0.99.7-7.fc19 @fedora

Is there something missing?

[minimy]

I think so:

[uwe@desktop ~]$ yum list *xine*
Geladene Plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installierte Pakete
xine-lib.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-devel.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-extras.i686 1.1.21-5.fc19 @fedora
xine-lib-extras-freeworld.i686 1.1.21-6.fc19 @rpmfusion-free
xine-ui.i686 0.99.7-7.fc19 @fedora

Is there something missing?

I think not. I use ubuntu, at first I had problems with SDL, GTK + and XINE but when I installed everything worked perfect.
If problems continue, you should ask Fred or another great 'Zen zei'.
There is also a Linux zone, they must know more.

[Shardik]

Did anyone get it working on Linux or even Fedora 19?

What type of movie did you try to play?
I tried on Fedora 19 x86 the example from #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Movie.pb" like you but it didn't work:
- With different AVI files from Windows (that work fine running Movie.pb on Windows XP SP3) only an empty window with a black background is displayed. No error is displayed until the window is closed.
- With the MPEG file "Alien song" (downloaded from http://funnympegs.htmlbasix.com/) only a small white vertical bar is displayed in the upper left part of the desktop. Again no error is displayed and I had to close Movie.pb by pressing the "Programm beenden" button in the IDE.

I have found out that missing decoders seem to be the problem. When trying to play the Windows AVI files using the Fedora app "Videos" I obtained the following error message:

gnome-settings-daemon benötigt zusätzliches Plugin zur Dekodierung dieser Datei

Das folgende Plugin werden benötigt:
- RLE-Codierung-Decoder

Wollen Sie jetzt danach suchen?

A search didn't find that plugin!

A similar error message is displayed for the MPEG file:

Videos benötigt zusätzliche Plugins zur Dekodierung dieser Datei

Die folgenden Plugins werden benötigt:
- MPEG-1 Layer 2 (MP2)-Decoder
- MPEG-1 Video Decoder

Wollen Sie jetzt nach ihnen suchen?

If doing the search these plugins are again not found. So even Fedora's app "Videos" is not able to play movies without the necessary decoders...

These are the installed packages obtained with "yum list *xine*":

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libXinerama.i686        1.1.3-1.fc19     @koji-override-0/$releasever
libXinerama-devel.i686  1.1.3-1.fc19     @fedora
xine-lib.i686           1.1.21-5.fc19    @fedora
xine-lib-devel.i686     1.1.21-5.fc19    @fedora

[uwekel]

@Shardik:

If you want to play movies on Fedora, you first have to install the RPM Fusion repositiories. You can do this here: http://rpmfusion.org/
Afterwards you must install the gstreamer libraries, e.g.

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sudo yum install gstreamer*

Now Fedora will play everything

I did that but nevertheless PB does not play the movies, although Fedora can. That's what i don't understand

[minimy]

I use Ubuntu. I have reproduced AVI (divx, xvid, 3ivx). suppose
To install it I guess you must be 'root' (admin)
I really do not know why it does not work. I think you do it right.
Rarely does not install well. Have you tried asking in the Linux area?
If I find an answer to your problem, I'll tell you.
I have a problem with extended desktop and video mpg2 in windows (black output in second screen).
Try Avi (divx). Install the codecs first.
Good Luck friend!

Ops! 'Uwekel' gives you the solution. thanks

[Shardik]

I have tested Movie.pb additionally with these other 4 distributions:
- Linux Mint 15 x86 with Cinnamon
- PCLinuxOS 2013.04 KDE MiniMe x86
- OpenSUSE 12.3 x86 with KDE
- Ubuntu 13.04 x86 with Unity

In none of these distributions did Movie.pb work without errors!

Linux Mint 15 x86 Cinnamon
Before any additional decoder installation:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: File couldn't be loaded.
- MPEG: File couldn't be loaded.

Doubleclick on file in file viewer:
- AVI:

run-length encoding decoder is required
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
- gstreamer1.0-libav

After installation of the above libs:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: File couldn't be loaded.
- MPEG: File couldn't be loaded.

Doubleclick on file in file viewer:
- AVI: is displayed.
- MPEG: is displayed.

PCLinuxOS 2013.04 KDE MiniMe x86
Before any additional decoder installation:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: File couldn't be loaded.
- MPEG: First frame is displayed, after that the error message "Program aborted. (by external library)" is displayed.

Click onto play button on right side of Dolphin fileviewer:
- AVI: nothing happens.
- MPEG: video is displayed.

OpenSUSE 13.04 x86 with KDE
Before any additional decoder installation:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: video window is opened but nothing is displayed (no error message).
- MPEG: very small vertical window is opened in top left part of desktop (similar to Fedora 19) but nothing is displayed (no error message).

Doubleclick on file in Dolphin file viewer:
- AVI

Kaffeine kann derzeit nicht alle Dateiformate wiedergeben. Möchten Sie zusätzliche Anforderungen installieren?

After that message I installed the suggested packman repository:

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sudo zypper ar -f -n packman-essentials http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.3/Essentials packman-essentials
sudo zypper ar -f -n packman-multimedia http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.3/Multimedia packman-multimedia
sudo zypper install libxine2-codecs k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg libdvdcss2

After installation of the above libs:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: The first frame is displayed but the error message "The debugged executable quit unexpectedly." is displayed and the program is terminated.
- MPEG: The video is displayed completely but the error message "Program aborted. (by external lib)" is displayed and after the video ends, the error message "The debugged executable quit unexpectedly." is displayed.

Doubleclick on file in Dolphin file viewer:
- AVI: is displayed.
- MPEG: is displayed.

Ubuntu 13.04 x86 with Unity
Before any additional decoder installation:

Movie.pb:
- AVI: File couldn't be loaded.
- MPEG: File couldn't be loaded.

Doubleclick on file in file viewer:
- AVI: is displayed.
- MPEG: is displayed.

[minimy]

When I tested, PB in Linux. It was with version 4.20 (I think).
At this point I do not have a computer with Linux installed.
When I install it again I tell you. Sorry friends...
You should ask Fred or another great 'Guru'.