[MPlayer-users] some DVDs play and others don't

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam <ahcnz at ihug.co.nz>

>Compile the codecs ?
>Where could you point me to further info on these and their sources ?

I compile the following codecs from source:

nasm - 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nasm/nasm-0.98.39.tar.bz2?download
xvid - http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.0.tar.bz2
x264 - 
ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20060720
-2245.tar.bz2
libavcodec - svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg 
(get it from Subversion
libmad - 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mad/libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz?download
LAME - 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.97b2.tar.gz?download

For some reason, I have never been able to get Mplayer to recognize 
LAME(for mp3lame) without installing libmad.  Also, you need nasm for 
XviD for the best playback.  You could also install YASM instead, but 
NASM works fine and has been in develpoment longer.  When I use 
mencoder, I re-encode using mp3lame and xvid.