[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src projects.src.en,1.165,1.166

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 02:46, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
> 
> Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src
> In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv24159/src
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	projects.src.en 
> Log Message:
> semi-official Debian packages by Andrea Menucci

A few comments (and Cc: to Andrea).

Well, I'm fairly sure even this won't be enough to stop users from
bothering us with "why can't I play DVDs" questions:

http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/sarge/mplayer_1.0pre7-1.diff.gz
[...]
--- mplayer-1.0pre7.orig/debian/README.Debian
+++ mplayer-1.0pre7/debian/README.Debian
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
[...]
+WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING 
+
+the  mplayer*.tar.gz in Debian is  different from the one upstream
+
+*  mplayer is packaged as a native Debian package, to point out 
+ that it is a different tarball; diffs (from upstream to the Debian .tar.gz)
+ may be found at  http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer
+
+* the mpdvdkit internal library was deleted: so mplayer.deb is uncapable
+ to play encrypted dvd-s ; if you live in country where using 
+ dvdcss code is not illegal, you may install it using the script
+ /usr/share/doc/libdvdread2/examples/install-css.sh
+
+* PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER UPSTREAM MPLAYER'S AUTHORS WITH BUGS AND REQUESTS
+ FOR FEATURES, but, send bugs to Debian: indeed, missing features
+ and/or bugs may be due to my butchering of the upstream code
[...]

The default configure line seems to enable too much for our tastes:

./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
        --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --enable-libdv \
--enable-xmga --enable-mga --enable-3dfx --enable-tdfxfb \
--enable-fbdev  --enable-directfb --enable-xinerama  --enable-xvmc \
        --disable-divx4linux --enable-vorbis \
--with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs \
--enable-gui --enable-freetype --enable-menu \
--disable-mpdvdkit --enable-dvdread  \
--enable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-aa --disable-ggi \
--disable-mencoder --disable-xvid --language=all --target=i586-linux \
--enable-win32 --enable-dshow --enable-real --enable-xanim

DirectFB and libdv are both autodetected, so it's wrong to --enable them.
Same goes for xinerama, vorbis, freetype and libdvdread.

Have you read http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt ?

Regards,
R.

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