[Jacques]

Could do with some advice on what the latest mplayer build is for Irix? I have 1.0pre5

[andyjpb]

nekoware has one of a similar vintage: http://ftp.irisware.net/pub/nekoware/cur...r1.tardist

[gijoe77]

Nekochan user Axatax had an absolutely fantastic build of Mplayer 1.1.1 that worked really good under Vpro graphics, you can find it here: http://ftp.irisware.net/pub/nekoware/con...1.1.tar.gz

https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/...006/1.html

[Jacques]

Thank you, will try that on my Octane.

[def13]

Well, after a long time to install the huge list of *.tardist needed to run neko_mplayer-1.0rc1-1.
I 'm trying to run it from the shell, but each command reply : mplayer - Command not found
man mplayer = No manual entry found for mplayer

Is somebody could help me to run it, please ?

Irix 6.5.26 / Octane2 / CPU 1xR12K400 / GPU V8 / SCSI DVDPioneer (recognized has a CDROM)

[jpstewart]

Well, after a long time to install the huge list of *.tardist needed to run neko_mplayer-1.0rc1-1.
I 'm trying to run it from the shell, but each command reply : mplayer - Command not found
man mplayer = No manual entry found for mplayer

Is /usr/nekoware/bin in your PATH environment variable?  Without it there, you'll need to call mplayer by its full path.  (Use 'echo $PATH' to check, if you're unfamiliar with UNIX shells.  And/or try running '/usr/nekoware/bin/mplayer' instead of just 'mplayer'.)

Likewise, you'll need /usr/nekoware/man in your MANPATH environment variable to be able to read the man page.

There were instructions for setting this up in the Nekochan wiki.  Find an archived copy of that and read-up on configuring Nekoware if you haven't done so already.  That'll be more accurate than anything I can tell you!

[def13]

@ jpstewart : Thanks for your help

I remenber, I've read something about Nekoware in the Nekochan Wiki … but finding parts of this usefull Wiki is really hard :(

After doing echo $PATH, I've got :
/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/user/bin:/etc:/usr/bin/X11
That's sure, /usr/nekoware/bin is note listed.

So I have to find the way to declare /usr/nekoware/bin and usr/nekoware/man in the right files (but I don't know where).
I read something about /etc/profile and /etc/cshrc but after opening these files, I didn't find any line about PATH or MAN PATH. (source)

EDIT : I found THIS

So I've done :
env (to list all environment variables)
…
man env (to understand what can I could do)

If I want to merge /usr/nekoware/bin to PATH, have I to write :
setenv PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/user/bin:/etc:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/nekoware/bin
OR JUST
setenv PATH=/usr/nekoware/bin

???

[jpstewart]

If I want to merge /usr/nekoware/bin to PATH, have I to write :
setenv PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/user/bin:/etc:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/nekoware/bin
OR JUST
setenv PATH=/usr/nekoware/bin

The first form is what you'll need.  Then all those directories will be searched for executables.  The second one will put only /usr/nekoware/bin in your path and the system won't find any of the standard binaries.

Off the top of my head, for MANPATH you'll want something like:
setenv MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/nekoware/man:/usr/nekoware/share/man
There might be other man directories on a standard IRIX installation, too.  Note the two Nekoware directories.  That's not a mistake.  Some packages use different locations!

[def13]

I'VE DONE IT !!! Thanks a lot @ jpstewart … you gave me a precious tips !

So I've merge /usr/nekoware/bin and /usr/nekoware/sbin (and /usr/freeware/bin by the way).

WIKI for newbies like me :

Merge a path :
setenv PATH /usr/nekoware/bin:$PATH
setenv PATH /usr/nekoware/sbin:$PATH
setenv PATH /usr/freeware/bin:$PATH

Create a manpath variable (if MANPATH not appear in env):
setenv MANPATH /usr/nekoware/man
and after merge the others man folders
setenv MANPATH /usr/freeware/catman:$MANPATH

[def13]

MPlayer-1.0rc1r1 works great on my Octane, except for *.mkv.
My scsi Pioneer DVD-303S-A is recognized and I can play DVDs from it (with a tiny frame lag sometime).

I've tried to use MPlayer-1.1.1 by replacing place to place MPlayer-1.0 files ; but there's big frame lags with a simple AVI/X264 file (the same movie I use for tests) … So I've downgrade to the previous version. There's certainly a subtily I don't understand, but what ? In fact, It's not really a problem to not run with the latest version.

The most annoying thing is the ENV PATH (…) or MANPATH (…) that are never saved. Everytime I restart my system, I have to rewrite setenv PATH /usr/nekoware… and setenv MANPATH /usr/nekoware… even if I'm in ROOT mode.