[MPlayer-users] display blacks out

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:05:19PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> um.... help.
> > May I suggest installing ffmpeg?
> > Get the latest from CVS.
> Done.
> 
> > ./configure (if you have the appropriate devel packages 
> > --enable-mp3lame, vorbis, etc.)
> 
> [carl at localhost main]$ ./configure --enable-ffmpeg
> Unknown parameter: --enable-ffmpeg
> 
> 
> > before you recompile MPlayer
> > 
> > Make you you are in the MPlayer directory
> > cp -r /path/to/ffmpeg/libavcodec/ .
> 
> [root at localhost etc]# ldconfig -v|grep avcodec
>         libavcodec-0.4.6.so -> libavcodec-0.4.6.so
> [root at localhost etc]# ls -l /usr/lib/libavcodec.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jun 23 13:12 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so -> libavcodec-0.4.6.so
> 
> Given this, do I still need to copy?

Yes, you need to follow the procedure in the README and put libavcodec
source under your mplayer source dir before compiling. Using shared
libavcodec is not a good idea (it changes just as frequently as
mplayer!) and it's not supported by mplayer build process.

Rich