[MPlayer-users] Mplayer compilation errata

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:08:04AM +1000, Nick Andrew wrote:
> I modified configure to do this. Actually it has to use svn to do the checkout,
> because (a) there's no git repository of libdvdread4 / libdvdnav that I know
> of,

Sure there is, but it's a mess to use for this purpose (and I don't know
if it gets updated automatically):
git://git.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav

> and (b) if I use git-svn to make a git one it also needs an Authors file,
> which I don't have.

Huh, what?
git svn init svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/dvdnav/trunk/libdvdnav/src
git svn fetch
works just fine for me with no such thing.

> mplayer builds OK now after reconfiguring. Here's the patch to configure:

The git checkout isn't really officially supported.
Also, with your patch those checkouts will go stale.
Both together mean that I don't think this is a good idea.
However MPlayer shouldn't just silently fail if dvdnav/dvdread
is missing, it should either just switch to trying the external
versions or abort.