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

[Jonathan Isom]

On 8/20/07, Whilom Chime <whilom_chime at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >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...

on gentoo you have to add use flags for those optimizations. edit you
/etc/make.conf file.
to know what flags to add use 'emerger -pv mplayer'

Later

Jonathan


> >
> >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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