[MPlayer-users] 0.90 source code no longer compiles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:06:42AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:38:13PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >>On a somewhat different (and, I suspect, more RTFM-ish) note, is there
> >>documentation listing what all of the various abbreviations in the
> >>enabled/disabled section of the output of configure mean, and roughly
> >>what is needed to enable them? I've managed to get all the codecs but
> >>opendivx to enable in configure, and some things I know are
> >>hardware-specific methods I don't have, but things like bl and zr I have
> >>no idea what are.
> >
> >OpenDivx is an ancient codec, the predecessor to divx4 before
> >divxnetworks decided to close the source back up. MPlayer used to
> >include opendivx source, but it was removed because of license issues
> >and because there was no point in having it. It's totally useless. (It
> >can't decode anything but opendivx-produced files, which are
> >nonexistent, and which lavc decodes fine anyway.)
> 
> All of the above (except the removed-due-to-license-issues bit) I knew 
> already. What I was asking about was the oddball things, such as (as I 
> said) bl and zr, for which I've been able to find no indication of what 
> they are.

zr is some hardware mpeg board...

> That's not quite true - I looked into a documentation file that came in 
> on a CVS update in the last week or so, and think I found bl identified 
> as blinkenlights, but I don't see how the common meaning of 
> blinkenlights is appropriate as a video-out method. ^_^

Look it up on freshmeat.

> Lessee. The full list of missing not-inapplicable things is actually 
> shorter than I thought it was. Codecs and audio-out have nothing missing 
> (aside from libtheora, but that's best to wait on till Theora 
> stabilizes, I expect), video-out is missing zr and bl, and input is 
> missing dvdnav, dvdread, dvdcss, and smb. I'm not too worried about the 
> three DVD entries, because I do have libmpdvdkit2 (and have been able to 
> access DVDs, or at least I could with the old version), but the others 
> have stymied me.

smb is smb filesystem support, so you can play files from a windows
smb share without having to use smbclient to download it or smbmount
to mount the share...

Rich