[MPlayer-users] Building MPlayer and XMMS

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Carl Eugen Hoyos!

 On 2013.02.28 at 22:28:46 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote next:

> > Note also that you'll need 32-bit versions of all this, 
> > also 32-bit version of mplayer (which will require 
> > 32-bit version of all the stuff that mplayer needs to 
> > playback various formats
> 
> Could you elaborate?
> I don't think MPlayer needs any "stuff" to playback 
> various formats (which?), MEncoder needs external 
> libraries to encode certain formats.

Well, first of all I meant this
$ ldd `which mplayer`|wc -l
132

Mplayer has a reason to link with so many libraries; also some of them
have dependencies so it'll be impossible to link with them unless their
dependencies are all installed, too.

As for the formats, there are few like library for CDDA playing,
library for Blu-ray playing, libraries for playing network streams.
These important things won't work in mplayer unless bunch of libraries
and devel packages are present, I believe.

Anyhow what I mostly meant is "all libraries mplayer needs to work
properly", not just codecs. Like, you'll need 32-bit pulseaduio library for
audio output on modern distros, some people need bs2b library to get
nicer sounds in headphones, and so on, this list might be long.
I mean, if one is building mplayer that's so perfect that it can
playback even rarest formats though xmms plugins, dropping support of
other features probably is a bad idea, and for 32-bit mplayer you'll
need all of these.

-- 

Vladimir