[MPlayer-users] FFmpeg and pre5 question

[D. Olson]

On Sunday 16 June 2002 06:25 pm, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > "If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package,
> > jus t
> > build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to extract
> > libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg 0.4.5 does not work with
> > MPlayer."
> >
> > Okay. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is pre5 just a CVS snapshot,
>
> no. pre5 is a release, actually a pre-release
> cvs snapshots are what are generated from cvs daily by cron script
>
> > therefore requiring the FFmpeg?
>
> no
> anyway just do ls libavcodec, if it lists many files then it includes
> libavcodec :)
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

Thanks for your reply A'rpi.

I got it all going great now. I was able to watch that new Neverwinter Nights 
video... Sweetness. :)