[MPlayer-users] mplayer and aalib

[The Wanderer]

Markus Laux wrote:

> hi
> 
> The Wanderer schrieb:
> 
>> You wrote that you had done that first, and that the resulting
>> MPlayer did not have AA support. We infer that the autodetection
>> did not detect your copy of the relevant library. However, what we
>> are currently trying to do is figure out *why* configure did not
>> detect the library, and therefore we are asking you to do certain
>> things to be able to provide us useful information.
> 
> that sounds useful to me, too. actually i thought i did what i was
> asked

Perhaps you did, but we were not able to make clear sense out of what
was posted. Getting angry about it does no one any good.

>>> after that i read and posted the aalib-section
>> 
>> Which 'AAlib section'? The one from when you had configured with
>> '--enable-aalib', or the one from when you had left that option
>> out?
> 
> it is the section reimar had quoted as well. after ./configure
> (without anything enabled) the aa-section says:
> 
> ============ Checking for AA ============
> 
> #include <aalib.h>

<snip>

> Result is: yes
> 
> mplayer -vo help still prompts:
> 
> 
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.0.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

<snip>

> any ideas?

Various random things.

First, related to what 'sofasurfer' said: are there multiple copies of
MPlayer on your system?

The easiest check is to run 'whereis mplayer' and see if there is more
than one result which is not a directory.

Also, run 'which mplayer' and try to compare the resulting file against
the copy of MPlayer in the build directory.

When you run 'ldd' on the copy of MPlayer in the build directory, does
the output mention libaa? What about when you run it on the result of
'which mplayer'?

Does the copy of MPlayer in the build directory output the same thing as
the installed copy in response to '-vo help'?


Some of those are redundant with one another, but any of them should
help take things at least a little further.

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       The Wanderer

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