NOTE: This is a preliminary version of the guide, (call it 0.0.1 or something), so it focuses mainly on the commands necessary. Also be aware that some of the files may have been updated since this was composed.

Begin:

mkdir /usr/src/mplayer	# This is to seperate mplayer and related tools from the rest of your system, mostly for organisations sake.
cd /usr/src/mplayer


export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib # Setting this now means that it is there for all packages as we go through the build
wget -c http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf MPlayer-1.0pre4.tar.bz2
wget -c http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/dhahelperwin/withmtrr/dhahelper.sys
mv dhahelper.sys MPlayer-1.0pre4/libdha/dhahelperwin

wget -c http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20040427.tar.bz2
tar xjvf essential-20040427.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
mv essential-20040427/* /usr/local/lib/codecs
rmdir essential-20040427
wget -c http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz
pushd /usr/include; tar xzvf ../src/mplayer/win32-dx7headers.tgz; popd

LAME is used for mencoder. Parts may be required for mplayer (I don't think they are, but I'm going on memory, and unsure. I'll confirm when I update this doc, hopefully fairly soon.)

wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.96.tar.gz
tar xzvf lame-3.96.tar.gz
cd lame-3.96
./configure --enable-nasm --enable-expopt=full
make
make install
cd ..

Now we start getting into the optional stuff.. Output formats, input formats, and so on.

wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aa-project/aalib-1.4rc4.tar.gz
tar xzvf aalib-1.4rc4.tar.gz
cd aalib-1.4.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fame/libfame-0.9.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libfame-0.9.1.tar.gz
cd libfame-0.9.1
./configure --enable-sse
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fribidi/fribidi-0.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf fribidi-0.10.4.tar.bz2
cd fribidi-0.10.4
./configure --enable-memopt
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://files.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.0.1.tar.bz2
tar xjvf xvidcore-1.0.1.tar.bz2
cd xvidcore-1.0.1/build/generic
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf SDL-1.2.7.tar.gz
wget -c http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/directx-devel.tar.gz # Note that this is needed IN ADDITION to the dx7headers downloaded previously.
pushd /usr; tar xzvf src/mplayer/directx-devel.tar.gz; popd
./configure --with-x --enable-video-aalib
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://www.xiph.org/ao/src/libao-0.8.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf libao-0.8.5
cd libao-0.8.5
./configure --with-x
make
make install
cd..
wget -c http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/unix/libogg-1.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libogg-1.1.tar.gz
cd libogg-1.1.tar.gz
autoreconf --install --force --verbose
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/unix/libvorbis-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libvorbis-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.0.1
./configure --enable-docs
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://download.tangent.org/libID3-0.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf libID3-0.7.tar.gz
wget -c http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~equate/cygwin/libID3-0.7-cygwin-patch.diff
cd libID3
patch -p0 < ../libID3-0.7-cygwin-patch.diff
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/flac-1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf flac-1.1.0.tar.gz
cd flac-1.1.0.tar.gz
./configure --disable-asm-optimizations
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://www.speex.org/download/speex-1.1.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf speex-1.1.5.tar.gz
cd speex-1.1.5
./configure --enable-epic-48k
make
make install
cd ..
wget -c http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/unix/vorbis-tools-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf vorbis-tools-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd vorbis-tools-1.0.1
./configure
make

You may get the following error during the ogg123 stage of make:
error cannot find -ldl

In this case, please do the following:
cd ogg123
gcc -O20 -fsigned-char -o ogg123.exe audio.o buffer.o callbacks.o cfgfile_options.o cmdline_options.o file_transport.o format.o http_transport.o ogg123.o oggvorbis_format.o playlist.o status.o transport.o vorbis_comments.o flac_format.o easyflac.o speex_format.o  -L/usr/local/lib ../share/libutf8.a ../share/libgetopt.a .libs/libimp-cygvorbisfile-3.a .libs/libimp-cygvorbis-0.a .libs/libimp-cygcurl-2.a -lssl -lcrypto -lgdi32 -lz .libs/libimp-cygintl-2.a -L/usr/lib .libs/libimp-cygiconv-2.a /usr/local/lib/libOggFLAC.a /usr/local/lib/libFLAC.a .libs/libimp-cygogg-0.a /usr/local/lib/libspeex.a -lwinmm /usr/local/lib/libao.a -lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
cd ..
make


make install
cd ..

I will also be working to expand this. I hope to include libtheora, and possible others.


./configure --enable-dynamic-plugins --enable-shared-pp --enable-bl --enable-fribidi --enable-menu --enable-live --enable-largefiles --enable-gui
make
make install


Your mplayer build is now complete. Please add fonts and skins for the gui (if you want to use it) as described elsewhere in the mplayer documentation.


Chris / EqUaTe