[MPlayer-users] gentoo: mplayer plays audio files but DVDs play silent

[Whilom Chime]

>From: RC <cooleyr at gmail.com>

>
>ac3 support is staticly compiled in, installing codecs will have no
>effect.
>
> > "mplayer -ac help" clearly lists the codecs mplayer is looking for
>
>Yes, it lists them all, whether you have them or not.
>

Gee, that's less than useful! :)

> > MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping:
> > 9) MMX supported but disabled
> > MMX2 supported but disabled
> > SSE supported but disabled
> > SSE2 supported but disabled
>
>This is all troubling information, suggesting a terribly improperly
>configured version of MPlayer
>

I wondered about those messages, but decided I get it working at all before 
worrying about optimisations...

> > ===== Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available.
> > Enable it at compilation.
>
>That is indeed your problem.
>
>Checkout a snapshot of MPlayer from SVN, compile with simple defaults,
>and everything should work.  If it doesn't, then you should report the
>problem.  3rd party packages (including Gentoo's source-based ebuilds)
>are really not supported, and often horribly broken.
>

Probably a use-flag issue, like always; OK, I'll compile it manually and see 
if I can fixup the gentoo package.  Thanks!

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