All-Guide: Installing YDL/VLC/MPlayer/SNES9x on PS3!

[IanJ]

lettuce read the thread with the information it's very simple to follow. Only sticky piece is setting up the actual networking options as they aren't as simple as clicking in window$

Anyone know if this works? I have the media software all working in linux, not just looking at enhancing it. Also is anyone using a USB TV adaptor with mythtv?

Edit: As i mentioned above i was having problems using yum installer to complete the tutorial. This only appears to affect the mplayer gui piece of the install. I had initially deleted the livna repos file from the yum.repos.d and it allowed everything else to install without error. I have now done some digging and it appears that the livna url isn't very well maintained and has been down for a while.

I have found a mirror site which let me continue with the mplayer-gui install. If you edit the livna-ppc.repo file and replace the url with http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/5/ppc/ it all works again.

Enjoy!
Ian

Last edited by IanJ; 05-08-2007 at 02:37 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

[Dragonos]

Hello, i have a problem installing vlc or snes9express, i do a yum update and give me several errors until it installed ok, after that i threat to install VLC writing in the terminal "yum install videolan-client" after that i get this error:

([root@localhost ~]# yum install videolan-client
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
freshrpm-frpm                                                        [1/7]
livna-stable                                                         [2/7]
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/ppc/repodata/repomd.xml:[/url] [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: livna-stable
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from livna-stable: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from livna-stable: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.)

Someone can tell whats happen with, thanks...

[IanJ]

Dragonos,

See my previous comment.. the linva rpm site is down. Change the repos file.

Ian

[bigd]

hi all,

I can get mplayer to work through command but its throught the gui i keep facing problems. after i install the gui and try to open a file the audio is muffled and its says it can't detect the video driver.

I changed the driver name to sdl but still no luck. i dont know if this is important but when i open up etc/mplayer i see to types of mplayer.conf

1) mplayer.conf
2) mplayer.###.conf

cheers

[IanJ]

Big D,

Did you try running the yum update?

Also i have heard of people having problems when running player not in the gnome gui.

Ian

[bigd]

Ian no i haven't. Probably good idea. i just assumed upon installing it through yum i got the latest version. ill try it when i get home and i see how that goes. cheers

[shenmue32]

I'm having a problem getting the sixaxis working with snes9x, I can maps the buttons fine but when I hit the power button snes9x crashes and gives me the error output file that I've posted below. If I uncheck "use joystick" in snes9x the program works fine, but when I try to use my sixaxis via usb cable it crashes.

Can anyone help me?

/home/shenmue/Desktop/snes/snes9x/snes9x -r 7 -joymap1 13 14 12 15 10 11 3 0 /home/shenmuje/Desktop/snes/roms/junglestrike.smc
snes9x: S9xUsage: snes9x <options> <rom image filename>

Where <options> can be:
( I deleted the options from this post to keep it shorter)

snes9x returned error code 1

[midn8]

plz help me i updated my yum and it worked fine but when i tried to install nplayer&VCL an error comes up during the process this is what i get when trying to install mplayer :

---> Downloading header for libdvdnav to pack into transaction set.
libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc5.pp 100% |=========================|  94 kB    00:03
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/5/ppc/freshrpms/RPMS/libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc5.ppc.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: RPMS/libdvdnav-0.1.10-3.fc5.ppc.rpm from freshrpm-frpm: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
---------------------------------------------------------------
VCL:
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: video-client
Nothing to do
----------------------------------------------

even though i changed the website in the file livna-ppc.repo but still no luck

[dud0r]

I'm guessing you need to be connected to the internet to update these players ? Cause i tried the commands and they didn't do anything so i tried and copy the lines by opening firefox on my ps3 but it couldn't connect, i found out that while i can acces the web browser on the xmb i can't seem to make a connection in linux.

It says i need to check the cables but it's a wireless connection... any idea what i should do ? should i aslo enter dsn servers etc in linux ? (hope you guys understand, or should i give more info ?)

[IanJ]

dud0r,

There are other threads on setting up networking in YDL. Essentially you need to manually populate every piece of information incl DNS and allocating an IP address.

Ian