[MPlayer-users] building from source

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 05/02/2009 01:24:48 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 04/24/2009 01:26:34 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:00:10PM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > On 04/23/2009 06:24:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > > Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > > I build a default-configuration mplayer from the current 
> > source.
> > > > > Works fine, except that there is no sound. Distribution
> version
> > > > > works fine.
> > > > > 
> > > > > What am I missing?
> > > > 
> > > > At a guess, you're probably missing the development headers for
> > the
> > > > various audio-output libraries which MPlayer can be compiled to
> > use.
> > > > What does 'mplayer -ao help' on the compiled version say?
> > > 
> > > Well, there's certainly a difference :-) As I'm running alsa, and
> > its 
> > > missing from the locally-compiled version, that's probably what
> the 
> > > problem is. So how do I correct it?
> > 
> > You need to install the alsa-lib-devel package.
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:02:34PM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > Can I ask which distro?
> > > 
> > > Of course :-)
> > > # rpm -qi mplayer
> > > Version     : 1.0                               Vendor: 
> ATrpms.net
> > > Release     : 64_snap20081116.fc10          Build Date: Thu 27 
> Nov
> > 2008 
> > 
> > There is a newer package available (1.0-68_snap20090419.fc10).
> > 
> > Try
> > 
> > yum-builddep mplayer
> > 
> > so your system installs all of the required build dependencies
> needed
> > for mplayer, then try again building from source. yum-builddep is 
> > part
> > of yum-utils, if it isn't installed on your system.
> > -- 
> > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
> > 
> 
> Sorry, no joy. PVR was offline for memory replacement, but now its 
> back.
[snip]

Well, an apology is needed. mplayer foo.mp2 has no sound, but mplayer -
ao alsa foo.mp2 has sound, so there's no problem with my build.

OTOH, the distribution version autodetected alsa, while my build did 
not, so perhaps there's something broken.