libtheora

[Jason W]

Here is libtheora:

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Title:          libtheora-devs.tce
Description:    Theora video compression dev files.
Version:        1.0
Author:         Xiphorus
Original-site:  http://theora.org/
Copying-policy: GPL
Size: 259K
Extension_by:   Jason W
Comments:       This extension is PPI compatible.
Change-log:     ----
Current:    2009/04/11 First version



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Title:          libtheora-devs.tcz
Description:    Theora video compression dev files.
Version:        1.0
Author:         Xiphorus
Original-site:  http://theora.org/
Copying-policy: GPL
Size: 259K
Extension_by:   Jason W
Comments:       ----
Change-log:     ----
Current:    2009/04/11 First version


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Title:          libtheora.tcel
Description:    Theora video compression
Version:        1.0
Author:         Xiphorus
Original-site:  http://theora.org/
Copying-policy: GPL
Size: 231K
Extension_by:   Jason W
Comments:       Depends on ogg-vorbis.tcel
This extension is PPI compatible.
Change-log:     ----
Current:    2009/04/11 First version



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Title:          libtheora.tczl
Description:    Theora video compression
Version:        1.0
Author:         Xiphorus
Original-site:  http://theora.org/
Copying-policy: GPL
Size: 300K
Extension_by:   Jason W
Comments:       Depends on ogg-vorbis.tczl
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Change-log:     ----
Current:    2009/04/11 First version



[tobiaus]

thank you, that was a fast response! i installed it with ogg-vorbis.tcel and still nothing though.

do you know any way to play the file i linked to in tc? (since it could always be that mplayer won't support it, i tried to play it with xmms also, but xmms won't even add it to the playlist.)

[Jason W]

I will look into how to play ogg theora with mplayer, it may need rebuilding with theora installed to have support for it.

[tobiaus]

it may need rebuilding with theora installed to have support for it.

thanks. given that the version of mplayer i find the most reliable is the nodeps version (it wouldn't refuse to open without the theora lib, would it?) it might be better to make a different player use the codec.

mplayer nodeps (i don't mind installing the codec "manually!") being my new favorite player,  my other favorite (of the players in tc) is xmms, but i don't know if the xmms in tc is meant to be audio only (in dsl, it was the audio/vid player.)

i'm in no rush to have this, i'd be happy to wait for theora support in vlc if that's an extension someday. i would still use mplayer nodeps usually. by the way, the .info doesn't mention sdl, which i have installed because of qemu.

[Jason W]

Gtk1/Gtk2 Mplayers are known to be buggy, and the ones in TC are no exception.  I tried two or three newer svn builds and they were much more buggy than the ones in the extension area.  The Gtk Mplayer extensions tend to crash on exit, while the newer builds crash on startup which is much worse.  When there is a stable release of Mplayer I will try the gtk builds again.  I will try to recompile the same svn checkout against libtheora and see if it can be supported.

In TC xmms is audio only.

[tobiaus]

The Gtk Mplayer extensions tend to crash on exit, while the newer builds crash on startup which is much worse.  When there is a stable release of Mplayer I will try the gtk builds again.

this is why i thought mplayer was lousy, but the nodeps version is great, i use tc's mplayer tce in two distros. i've found that vlc is very nice in other distros, but i uninstalled it a long time ago and replaced it with mp3blaster (then moc, then mplayer nodeps.) any player that can play theora without doing unstable things would be nice, whether it takes a month or several months.

i just don't want to see the one good mplayer (nodeps) suddenly become larger, or refuse to open without some extra lib. with almost no content that uses it, it's better that theora continue to be optional.

but i'm thrilled that mplayer plays both mp3 and ogg vorbis (and flv!) without deps. (otherwise i might as well use mpg123.)

[curaga]

Yeah, building mplayer with libtheora would place the dependency on it. However the latest ffmpeg seems to claim to support playing Theora natively; it that's so, then just a rebuild of the latest mplayer would work. Not sure though.

[tobiaus]

the latest ffmpeg seems to claim to support playing Theora natively;

if that's what they've got planned it might be worth the wait.