[MEncoder-users] mplayer cannot play AC3 anymore

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:37:12PM +0200, Stefan Frings wrote:
> Hi,
> I did not read the installation instruction carefully. It says:
> 
> STEP 2:
> ... This step is not mandatory, ...
> 
> And I did not read the rest of step2. After running configure, I noticed, that 
> it detected my ffmpeg shared libraries and I thought that this is Ok. I 
> understand now that this is not Ok.
> 
> The configure program should output a warning, that the shred libraries should 
> not be used.

Actually it should refuse to use them, and not even search for them..

> Anyway: mplayer works fine on my machine even with those shared libraries as 
> long as they are not using shared liba52. Ffmpeg can be compiled with and 
> without external liba52 support. I found out, that it supports AC3 also when 
> I do not use the external liba52.

Ahh.. So the problem only occurs when ffmpeg is using external liba52?

Rich