Over the last little while I have read a lot of posts on QNX sites about getting MPlayer to work.  Over my time at QNX I was required to make a lot of software run under Photon or the AGTDK.  So I thought I would give mplayer a try.

As all of the guys at Crank know I hate “configure”.  It never really works for me and it always seems that each project has it’s own idea of how it should work.  The biggest problem I usually have with “configure” is that under QNX the compiler is “qcc”.  this means that some of the stock “gcc” options will not work.  The most notable one is “-version”.  This means that sometimes “configure” does not know that you are using “gcc” and also what version it is.  In order to get mplayer working I had to change the configure script a bit to recognize the compiler and also make some minor mods to the source to make it build.  I also disabled all of the assembly routines for the current build. 

Next I implemented the rendering backend and have MPlayer running under:

• SDL
• Photon
• GF

It renders to a basic buffer so there is nothing fancy and no user interface, just command line.  It also only draws to an RGB buffer as most drivers don’t have YUV support.  So it should run under any QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 X86 machine including vmware.   I have posted binaries to the Crank website.  You will also need the Crank Open Source archive.

Example of running under Photon, for GF use “-vo gf” (if you want audio use the sdl audio: “-ao sdl”) :

   mplayer -vo photon /home/brian/xmen.mp4

If you require the source diffs and the configure line let me know.

Have fun,

Brian

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