[MEncoder-users] Install mplayer in a shared server with libmp3lame support

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: qi.richard at gmail.com

> In order to use mencoder converting video file to flv, I installed 
lame-3.97and
> mplayer-1.0rc1 into a shared server. Since I do not have permission 
to
> install anything in /usr/local, I set the prefix option to my home
> directory. However, when I run configure for mplayer, it always shows 
that
> "Checking for libmp3lame (for mencoder) ... no".

I've found that I have to run this command after compiling lame to get 
mplayer to see it:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /lib/mp3lame.so.0

Then it detects it just fine.
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