[MPlayer-users] Can't compile

[James Blanford]

On Sun, 24 May 2020 22:44:35 +0200
Erik Auerswald <auerswal at unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote:

> Hello Alexander,
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 05:39:03PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> > On 2020-05-23 17:48 +0900, Masaru Nomiya wrote:  
> > > In the Message;
> > >
> > >   Subject    : Re: [MPlayer-users] Can't compile
> > >   Message-ID : <5EC7B244.6030102 at fastmail.fm>
> > >   Date & Time: Fri, 22 May 2020 07:06:44 -0400
> > >
> > > The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> has written:  
> > > > On 2020-05-21 at 23:07, Masaru Nomiya wrote:  
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to compile the svn head, I got the error;
> > > > >
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > In file included from libavcodec/mf_utils.c:25:
> > > > > libavcodec/mf_utils.h:22:10: fatal error: windows.h: No such
> > > > > file or directory 22 | #include <windows.h>
> > > > >       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > > compilation terminated.  
> > > [...]  
> > > > Basically, FFmpeg added a new feature, which (I infer) only
> > > > works on Windows, and MPlayer hasn't been updated to support
> > > > autodetecting or ignoring it properly.  
> > >  
> > > > Reportedly, the MPlayer configure options  
> > >  
> > > >  --disable-encoder=AAC_MF --disable-encoder=AC3_MF \
> > > >  --disable-encoder=MP3_MF --disable-encoder=H264_MF \
> > > >  --disable-encoder=HEVC_MF  
> > >  
> > > > serve to manually ignore the new feature and compile anyway. I
> > > > have not yet tried them myself.  
> > > [...]  
> > Sorry for being a bit late to comment on this and the previous
> > posts.
> > 
> > I committed a fix yesterday afternoon (european time).  
> 
> After I read the commit email, I did a recompile of MPlayer on
> GNU/Linux, and it worked fine.  But I did not verify if the problem
> happened for me, too, before.  I'd suspect the issue to be fixed. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Erik

I did have the problem. After downloading the updated "configure" I can
compile and run mplayer without having to manually disable the *MF
encodings.

Yanks,

   -  Jim
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