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stereoscopic mplayer working again
One year ago I provided a gentoo ebuild for mplayer which included support for quad-buffered stereo, enabling mplayer to display stereoscopic movies like the great movie Avatar3D I watched in cinema today. To learn more about the movie look here and here. Sadly the patch I referenced there does not apply over newer mplayer versions. So I had to modify the original patch from Stuart Levy to work again with newer mplayer versions. You may download the updated patch from here:
mplayer-stereoscopic.patch (639)
The patch should work at least with nvidia quadro boards, probably with some others. It can be used with CRT and generic shutter glasses or HMDs like the Vusix VR920. Some stereoscopic sample movies for trying it out can be found on www.3d.wep.dk.
For Gentoo users I also modified the mplayer ebuild from portage to include the patch. The modified ebuild is available here:
mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1.ebuild (323)
The older ebuild is still available on mygnu.de.
To use the ebuild it just copy it to /usr/local/portage/media-video/mplayer and copy the the patch to the “/usr/local/portage/media-video/mplayer/files” directory. You probably have to create these directories. Then run
ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091026-r1.ebuild digest
Be sure to include the following line in your /etc/make.conf.
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage”
Then just re-emerge mplayer.
Now start mplayer with -vo gl2:stereo and enjoy the experience in the 3rd dimension again.
Jürgen
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March 23rd, 2010 at 2:58 pm
I think you mean PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/portage/local” and not PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage”
greetings
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Maybe, when I read your comment I remembered that there were some changes regarding the default overlay location. On my systems I still keep the old config with the overlay in “/usr/local/portage”. But I think you are right and the default changed to “/usr/portage/local”.
Jürgen
April 5th, 2010 at 12:00 am
hi, its me again. maybe you were right. i found contradictory information by now, also in the official gentoo documents. sry for my missinformation.
October 1st, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Nice job, but for a Linux end-user like me, is difficult to install this patch. I have OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit, and maybe a RPM are welcome here. I understand, someone need to spent time for this, and nobody pay back, but please have mercy on us. Thanks
October 26th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Hi arg0naut,
I tried to mail to you, but you did not respond. Are you willing to test an rpm?
December 31st, 2010 at 12:39 am
[...] while ago I updated the stereocopic mplayer patch to work again with newer mplayer versions. This patch worked to display side by side stereo movies [...]
January 29th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
[...] The older ebuild and patch are still available on mygnu.de. [...]
January 10th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
All ebuild don’t work now and patch can’t work with the last mplayer , bino ebuild don’t work too , so no way for stereo player under my gentoo box with quad-buffer ?
PS flighgears ebuild work great thx
January 10th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Hi,
this article is over a year old. Did you try the old version from this article or the newer versions of the mplayer patch and the bino ebuild from here: http://www.mygnu.de/index.php/2011/01/stereoscopic-mplayer-working-again-part-2/ and here: http://www.mygnu.de/index.php/2011/05/bino-1-0-ebuild-for-gentoo/? These still work on my gentoo box.
regards
mithrandir