[MPlayer-users] MPlayer man page

Jonas Jermann jjermann at gmx.net
Wed Dec 25 01:42:01 CET 2002


On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:00:16PM +0100, Gerhard Strangar wrote:
> I magend to install MPlayer on Solaris after modifying the path to
> install in the Makefile (isn't that what configure is supposed to do?),
> but I can't view the man page, even after copying it into the correct
> directory. I tried to view it manually, but
> nroff -man /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1
> displays nothing!
> However, I don't even want to use mplayer, I want to use MEncoder to
> convert an MPEG1 with MP2 audio to AVI (DivX/XviD and MP3). But it's
> very hard without man page...

I have been told that Solaris's roff format can't handle long 
macro names. Try to replace all defined macro names with 2 char 
names... I didn't have time to do it. :(

Regards
    Jonas




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