[MPlayer-users] configure doesn't find Jack

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:08:54PM +0000, Warren Wilder wrote:
> Unfortunately, the autodetection of Jack doesn't work on my system.

You did not state you MPlayer version. For pre7 you need bio2jack, and
jack support has some bugs.
If using CVS, you need (can't guarantee the paths are correct though)
/usr/include/jack/jack.h
/usr/lib/libjack.so

Having pkg-config installed might help as well.

> It's an LFS system, so everything is made from sources and I want
> to know/learn about every little itty bitty thing that isn't working
> right yet.

I think BLFS describes setting up MPlayer including Jack, but maybe I'm
wring...

> I checked the configure.log and noticed the Jack version number printed
> in there. So something is being detected, right?

How about just giving us that part (or even all of) the log, instead of
leaving us guessing? :-P

> Any pointers about how to get this working, and about the possible uses
> of Jack with Mplayer are welcome.

Well, I'd say the uses of jack with MPlayer are the same as the uses of
jack with any application. Since I don't really use it, the only one I
know of is working around crappy soundcards that can not do hardware
mixing in a (possibly) slightly saner way than alsa dmix.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger