[MPlayer-users] 0.90 source code no longer compiles

[The Wanderer]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:38:13PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>>On a somewhat different (and, I suspect, more RTFM-ish) note, is there
>>documentation listing what all of the various abbreviations in the
>>enabled/disabled section of the output of configure mean, and roughly
>>what is needed to enable them? I've managed to get all the codecs but
>>opendivx to enable in configure, and some things I know are
>>hardware-specific methods I don't have, but things like bl and zr I have
>>no idea what are.
> 
> OpenDivx is an ancient codec, the predecessor to divx4 before
> divxnetworks decided to close the source back up. MPlayer used to
> include opendivx source, but it was removed because of license issues
> and because there was no point in having it. It's totally useless. (It
> can't decode anything but opendivx-produced files, which are
> nonexistent, and which lavc decodes fine anyway.)

All of the above (except the removed-due-to-license-issues bit) I knew 
already. What I was asking about was the oddball things, such as (as I 
said) bl and zr, for which I've been able to find no indication of what 
they are.

That's not quite true - I looked into a documentation file that came in 
on a CVS update in the last week or so, and think I found bl identified 
as blinkenlights, but I don't see how the common meaning of 
blinkenlights is appropriate as a video-out method. ^_^

Lessee. The full list of missing not-inapplicable things is actually 
shorter than I thought it was. Codecs and audio-out have nothing missing 
(aside from libtheora, but that's best to wait on till Theora 
stabilizes, I expect), video-out is missing zr and bl, and input is 
missing dvdnav, dvdread, dvdcss, and smb. I'm not too worried about the 
three DVD entries, because I do have libmpdvdkit2 (and have been able to 
access DVDs, or at least I could with the old version), but the others 
have stymied me.

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       The Wanderer

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