Package Details: fbff-git 1:0.87.ae86d8e-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fbff-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fbff-git
Description: A small ffmpeg-based framebuffer media player.
Upstream URL: http://repo.or.cz/w/fbff.git
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: fbff
Provides: fbff
Submitter: Sara
Maintainer: aksr
Last Packager: aksr
Votes: 7
Popularity: 0.72
First Submitted: 2011-08-22 01:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2022-12-23 22:12 (UTC)

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m040601 commented on 2025-01-11 10:00 (UTC) (edited on 2025-01-24 14:50 (UTC) by m040601)

Latest commits,

  2024-11-02 23:41  ffs: update setting channel layout for S
  2024-11-02 22:23  fbff: show OSSDSP error messages only wh
  2024-09-13 06:40  fbff: show a more specific error message
  2022-08-12 09:24  fbff: change process group if TERM_PGID
  2022-08-10 17:09  fbff: disable and enable drawing with SI

To make it work in a standard modern Archlinux you need some extra configuration.

fbff assumes you have a /dev/dsp device on your system. This is related to the old OSS sound system. Not the modern ALSA one.

This does not exist on a modern Archlinux by default. Because the default shipped Archlinux kernel has these necessary modules, but they are not loaded by default.

cat /proc/config.gz | grep .... 

CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m

You can load them temporarly by

sudo  modprobe snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss

Or permanently by adding them to .conf files in,

/etc/modules-load.d

Refer to, https://github.com/aligrudi/fbff/issues/3

There is also some request to make fbff use the "modern" alsa backend.

This PKGBUILD also states:

Optional Deps   : libmpeg3: alternative media backend
                  oss: sound support

'libmpeg3' does not exist on the AUR.

I'm also not sure if 'oss' still applies and if anyone has tested it to work with fbff. As it is only an AUR available thing.

m040601 commented on 2023-11-18 21:03 (UTC)

Does not work on a modern up to date Archlinux,

"fbff: /dev/dsp busy?"

Not sure if this is an Archlinux issue or a problem with "fbff" itself. There is an issue here,

https://github.com/aligrudi/fbff/issues/3

m040601 commented on 2023-11-18 20:44 (UTC) (edited on 2023-11-18 20:46 (UTC) by m040601)

PKGBUILD needs some more corrections:

(1/1) installing fbff-git                          [------------------] 100%
==> To use fbff, read /usr/share/doc/fbff/README
Optional dependencies for fbff-git
    libmpeg3: alternative media backend
    oss: sound support

$ less /usr/share/doc/fbff/README

/usr/share/doc/fbff/README: No such file or directory

This happens because,

$ pacman -Ql fbff-git

fbff-git /usr/
fbff-git /usr/bin/
fbff-git /usr/bin/fbff
fbff-git /usr/share/
fbff-git /usr/share/doc/
fbff-git /usr/share/doc/fbff-git/
fbff-git /usr/share/doc/fbff-git/README

The PKGBUILD installs 

/usr/share/doc/fbff-git/README

which is incorrect according to the AUR guidelines. It should be, "fbff" not "fbpp-git",

/usr/share/doc/fbff/README

m040601 commented on 2022-04-05 18:48 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-05 18:51 (UTC) by m040601)

Incorrect homepage and upstream url.

In his personal web page, https://litcave.rudi.ir/, the author explicitly links to,

https://github.com/aligrudi/fbff

micwoj92 commented on 2021-03-29 05:07 (UTC)

libmpeg3 opt dependency no longer exists.

Sara commented on 2012-04-27 00:12 (UTC)

Undoubtedly, it must have been noticed how, since December 2011, fbff has not been able to properly play video with AAC audio, but that issue has now been fixed, and everyone should find the latest git revision of fbff to be perfectly usable now! Just a head's up.

Sara commented on 2011-12-05 12:51 (UTC)

Removed an optdepend.

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