[MPlayer-users] compiling mplayer 0.91

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:12:50PM +0200, Uwe.Beach at web.de wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded MPlayer-0.91.tar.bz2 from mplayerhq.hu, 
> divx4linux-std-20030428.tar from divx.com and run install.sh from the 
> divx4linux-directory.
> 
> When I start configure in the mplayer-directory, the divx codecs are not 
> recognized. In the configure script i found a test with
> # DivX5: DEC_OPT_MEMORY_REQS - DivX4: DEC_OPT_FRAME_311
> Both defines are not defined in the headers inside the divx4linux-directory, 
> so the test fails.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong ?

Yes, latest Divx4Linux changed the API in incompatible ways. Current
CVS and the upcoming 1.0pre releases will work with it, but not 0.91.
Anyway it's best to just compile without divx installed; it's not
useful for anything since libavcodec is faster and more compatible.

Rich