[MPlayer-users] Re: Recoring this *.ram to WAV with mplayer works while logged in but not from at.

[Corey Hickey]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-04-12, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:
>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>>>>>> MPlayer was the first program I ever obtained and installed from
>>>>>>> CVS, and I've never seriously regretted it.
>>>>>> OK, when I'm feeling a little brave I'll try it.
>>>>> Unless you try to install Debian packages which depend on the MPlayer
>>>>> package (unlikely, since the MPlayer package itself is unofficial),
>>>>> there should be no problems with having MPlayer installed via a non-deb
>>>>> means; I've certainly never had any problem with it.
>>>> It's very easy to compile your own Debian package of mplayer.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Get mplayer source as usual.
>>>> 2. Run ./configure and look at what drivers/codecs are enabled.
>>>> 3. Install libraries and -dev packages for drivers/codecs you want.
>>>> 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you're happy.
>>>> 5. $ export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='--options-you --pass-to-configure'
>>>> 6. fakeroot debian/rules binary
>>>> 7. Install any necessary debian-building packages if step 6 fails.
>>> But what would be the advantage to me of doing all that to make and
>>> install a binary package over just compiling the source code and doing
>>> make install?
>> Once you get it set up, steps 5 and 6 are the only ones that need doing 
>> each time. Anyway, besides what The Wanderer wrote, there are a couple 
>> advantages:
>>
>> * If you're about to remove some weird-looking library that you didn't 
>> know mplayer depends on, apt-get/aptitude/whatever will show you.
>>
>> * You can easily remove mplayer even if you don't have the source to 
>> 'make uninstall'. If you never uninstall mplayer this might not apply to 
>> you, but it still is a general advantage of making a debian package when 
>> possible.
> 
> Good points. I'll probably try it when I get round to compiling
> mplayer myself.

If you do, be sure to uninstall your non-packaged mplayer before 
installing the deb package. Having two versions installed at the same 
time can trick you.

-Corey