* Andreas Claesson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 7/8/05, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, USE-flags. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 > > To see which USE flags mplayer uses: > > $ emerge -pv mplayer > > enable them by adding them to the global USE in '/etc/make.conf' > or add a line to '/etc/portage/package.use'. > See the portage man pages for more information: > > $ man portage > > /Andreas >
Ah yes. I was just looking at use.desc and saw mmx. When I did I knew what I had done wrong. I read through it carefully and enabled all the flags which seemed to apply to MPlayer and now it works like a dream. I think perhaps a shade or two better than it had. The only strangeness is that it uses libdvdread and shows the output of libdvdcss whereas my previous installs used the internal mplayer dvd facilities. Doesn't appear to affect the outcome any though, which is fine by me. What is interesting is that I was apparently overcomplicating things a bit. I just knew that there had to be some esoteric way to do these things but in fact it was much more intuitive and simple than I thought. Many thanks to all for the help. Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
