[MPlayer-users] Building MPlayer and XMMS

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:01:50PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Elio Blanca wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Vladimir,
> > 
> > Il 27/02/2013 23:03, Vladimir Mosgalin ha scritto:
> > >Out of curiousity, which plugin are you interested in?
> > 
> > as reported here:
> > http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/mp3pro.html
> > using xmms1.x plugin system via mplayer is the only way (apart from
> > running xmms itself) of getting an old mp3pro plugin working and so
> > achieving a native solution for playing mp3pro files in linux (I
> > found a few dozens files lying around).
> 
> Aren't there any Windows codecs for mp3pro around? Using them in
> MPlayer should be a lot simpler than xmms, which I believe never worked
> properly anyway.
> Btw. about that article: libmp3lame exporting a getbits function is a
> major bug, and checking on my current Debian one that still hasn't been
> fixed.
> I thought by now everyone would be using linker scripts or visibility to
> only export symbols that are actually part of the API.

I made a patch for libmp3lame to fix this, and it's already fixed in
the debian-multimedia repository, and for mainline Debian it is
Bug#702290.
Not that it helps much on this issue in the grand scheme of things...