Yeah, I make my own RPM's for personal use, however I suggest you download the tarball and work on it from there. You should upgrade your GCC though, and I suggest to the gcc 3.0.4 which is on your Mandrake 8.2 CD's. The standard GCC is messed up I'm afraid, and although compiling everything (well almost) else causes no problems, 0.9.6 has quite a gew mmx / mxx / whatever... can't remember .. problems ;-) If I remember correctly I had to symlink /usr/bin/cc to /usr/bin/gcc afterwards, but if you are going to upgrade GCC, delete totally gcc-0.9.6 first, including the devel file.
You can bypass this by using the --disable-gcc-checking, however if you want to use Mencoder properly with DivX, upgrade. I had the same problems with Lame (for MP3 audio in the films). At first it's a drag to do it all, but once you have it working you will realise why MPlayer stands at Number 1 on the Popular statistics on Freshmeat... even above the Linux Kernel ;-) If you run into big problems, first reffer to the documentation included in the tarball, and whatever you do, do NOT ask "stupid" questions on the MPlayer Mailing list... they have this great way of flaming people to a crisp ;-) I guess I can understand it to a point, as many questions get asked so many times though... and they do get tired answering the same questions over and over and over and over and over again... so maybe that's why their standard answer has become "RTFM". Everything as I said is well documented, however if you descide not to replace GCC 0.9.6 with a later or earlier version, then don't even bother asking questions on their site =) Good luck and reading ;-) Greetings Ralph On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 06:13, you wrote: > > > > > I found a small DivX trailer file to download and got it to work > > > with the linux DivX movie player. It would not work with Mplayer > > > for some reason. The name of the file that I downloaded was: > > > Contact.zip which when unzipped (linux extract prog)became two > > > files Contact_movie.avi > > > divx.log > > > So far, I cannot find any sites to download full length > > > movies,seems like this field needs a audiogalaxy type setup. > > > > Let me guess: You didn't intall the DivX codecs first, or download > > libavcodec to add the the tarball of Mplayer (CVS versions)? > > Otherwise it should have worked I guess.. in fact I know. Actually > > I have never seen a player that supports so many different file > > formats. DivX was just one of the main ones, and trust me... it > > DOES work great ;-) > > Ralph > > You are absolutely correct, I simply applied LM8.2's own Mplayer > version which came with the distro which is Mplayer v 0.50-3asp . Now > this is no good you are saying? > If so which particular version would be better and does it have to be > tar ball versions, are there no rpm 's that are just as good ? > > Also, thank you all for your replies , there is certainly something > to follow up here. thanks. > > John > > -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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