[MPlayer-users] first time user, some problems

[Harri Pasanen]

On Saturday 30 March 2002 08:29, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Am Sam, 2002-03-30 um 00.25 schrieb Harri Pasanen:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello,
> >
> > First, mencoder.c seems to be mangled in CVS or in 20020329 snapshot.
> >
> > mencoder.c:1865: parse error before `static'
> >
> > Looking at the file, it seems that some automatic merging or sloppy cut
> > and pasting has been happening, as it does not make much sense.
> >
> > I then tried with 20020328 snapshot, which built fine.  Trying to play
> > back an avi file, the video seems to be fine, but don't get any sound.
> > mplayer -v tells me among other things:
> >
> > Clip info:
> >  Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
> > get_path('sub/') -> '/home/H/.mplayer/sub/'
> > Detected audio codec: [ac3] drv:3 (AC3)
> > Initializing audio codec...
> > Requested audio codec family [ac3] (vfm=3) not available (enable it at
> > compile time!)
> > Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> nosound
> >
> > I grepped configure --help output for AC3, ac3 and vfm, but couldn't see
> > anything relevant.  I then spent some time reading the various docs, but
> > still no luck.
> >
> > I'm sorry if I'm missing the obvious, but I'd appreciate any pointers.
>
> use liba52, libac3 is dprecated.
>

Ok, Ithink I know what was going on.   I had in the past tried Mplayer 0.18, 
which had created a codecs.conf file for me, and the current mplayer was 
honoring that, using the old codecs defined there.

Now everything seems to be working perfectly.

-H