[MPlayer-users] mplayer doesn't compile with alsa-1.0-pre1

[Stephen Stocker]

> Hello everyone,
>
> the alsa-team has released version 1.0.0pre1 of alsa-driver and
> alsa-lib, and the current cvs version of mplayer won't compile with the
> new version.
>
> configure fails because it only checks for version 0.9, after doing the
> obvious quick hack to the configure script compilation still fails.
> I guess it might have something to do with the introduction of a new
> ALSA PCM API as described in a post on the alsa-devel list
> (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09892.html),
> but I'm no expert on this subject.
>
> I am running gentoo with kernel 2.6.0-test10 and alsa-lib-1.0.0pre1.
> This configuration is rather fresh, so I might have done something wrong
> during the updates, but at least the configure script needs to be fixed
> (but you would never accept my quick hack as a patch, as I had no better
> idea than to exchange 0.9 with 1.0 :o)
<snip>

  Hi,

  There's a patch for this at:
  http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-November/date.html

  I just ran across the problem myself the other day, this'll fix it until
the developers decide how to handle the new API. Works like a charm!

	Steve