[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-1.0pre2 compiling error (fbdev?)

[Arwed von Merkatz]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:01:12AM +0100, Renaud Desarzens wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Hi all
> 
> I'm new to this list and also to linux. I hope someone is able to
> help me to get around this. I tried already to ask it last week 
> but with no luck. Please apologize if it's the wrong list or I'm 
> asking something stupid, but I'm really stuck with it. So here 
> goes my second try...
> 
> When trying to configure and compile MPlayer-1.0pre2, then I get
> the error shown in attached Textfile "makeSnippet.txt".
> 
> I believe I've read all the docs that might help, googled around
> and searched the mailing list archives to find something useful
> about this one... The only thing I've found was to configure 
> mplayer using the --disable-fbdev option. With this configure
> option set, it compiles fine... but I need fbdev being enabled.
> 
> Furthermore, when trying to play an original DVD Video using
> 
> mplayer -ao alsa9 -vo xv dvd://1
> 
> from within KDE. MPlayer starts but without playing the film and
> with no sound. It seems to freeze but I can CTRL-C. On my shell
> I see the output like shown in attachment "playingDVD.txt".

Your audio device is probably blocked by arts (the kde sound server).
Use mplayer -ao arts, or stop the sound server.

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