[MPlayer-users] trouble with a52/ac3

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Dec 1 17:52:33 CET 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:52:27AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:27 -0800
> Ryan Olf <ryan at efrus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, mplayer -ac help lists an ac3 codec from libac3, but it isn't
> > compiled  in.  How do I compile it in?  
> 
> libac3 is just an ancient version of liba52.  I can't see any reason you
> would WANT to use it.
> 
> > Also, mplayer uses internal liba52, but my distribution gentoo has  an
> > external one available... is it possible to tell mplayer to build with
> > or  use the external one?
> 
> No.There doesn't seem to be any indication in the source that mplayer is
> capable of compiling with external liba52. This isn't unusual, as
> mplayer compiles (almost) everything statically, and there are many
> reasons the use external libs is discouraged.

AFAIK the output code in internal liba52 has been modified somewhat to
be much faster and link better with MPlayer's design.

Rich




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