[MPlayer-users] Compiling MPlayer fails

[Gianluca Fiore]

On Tue 27 Feb, 2007 at 20:02:52 +0600, ajaxas wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:44:58 +0100
> Gianluca Fiore <forod.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The --disable-xvid/--enable-xvid option you are referring to is used to dis(en)
> able XviD support in mencoder, not mplayer. Thus you only need it for encoding
> purposes.
> If you really gonna encode anything with mencoder, then first check if you
> have proper (new enough?) xvid and xvid-devel packages installed in your system,
> and try not to use --enable-xvid option explicitly - the ./configure script will
> deal with the issue itself. That's how it works for me, at least.
> 
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> ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com>
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You were right, not enabling xvid explicitly let mplayer compiling well.
Thanks.
May I ask why this kind of behaviour? I'm a long time cvs/svn mplayer
user and for many years enabling options from the configure script was
*ok*. Now why isn't so anymore?