[MEncoder-users] Basic Compile/Use Question With Pure Alsa

[mgrollman]

Exactly.  I was at a different computer than the one I got the response 
email at, and I took a shot that this might work.

Sorry for the error.  My bad.

The Wanderer wrote:
> mgrollman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:53:13 -0700
>> <mgrollman at xxxx> wrote:
>>
>>  > Option tv: Unknown suboption alsa
>>
>> That means MEncoder doesn't have support for alsa compiled in.  Probably
>> because ./configure didn't find the headers.  Try installing whatever
>> alsa-dev package your distro offers.  If that doesn't work, send the
>> configure.log excerpt about alsa detection.
>>
>> --------
>>
>> RC,
>>
>> Brilliant, the configure.log lead me to the debian .deb it wanted, 
>> which was
>> libasound2-dev.  Thank you.
>
> How did you manage to not only quote incorrectly (failing to add the
> requisite '>' symbols), but post your reply in a *completely different
> thread*, and add yourself to Reply-To into the bargain?
>
> The only way I can think of you could have done that is to have hit
> Reply in the other thread, deleted all of the automatically-quoted text,
> gone to RC's post and copied the text you wanted to quote, then gone to
> your reply and pasted it in.
>