[MPlayer-users] Compile problem

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 17 June 2007 at 15:11, Captain Blade wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply...
> 
> >You seem to have missed installing a few devel packages before compiling
> >MPlayer, hence you only got vidix and null vo drivers.
> 
> >Without full ./configure command and its output (as well as config.log),
> >it's difficult to guess.
> 
> I'm including the files...
> 
> >Is there a reason why you're not using the official RPM packages? They
> >are available for Fedora 7, too, you know.
> 
> Technically... it is not in the standard packages, because in US mpeg play
> is patented. There is a non-official package "livna" which includes it,

It is the official MPlayer package for Fedora.

> but when I try to install it I get:
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.76.20070612svn.lvn7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution

And? There's no error here.

> ... and I already have libmpcdec-devel.i386 installed.

What does -devel have anything to do here? mplayer rpm doesn't require
any devel-packages.

> So I was stuck installing it, so I downloaded the sources to compile
> it myself...

Stuck how?

Regards,
R.

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