[MPlayer-users] building from source

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 04/23/2009 06:24:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 
> > I build a default-configuration mplayer from the current source.
> > Works fine, except that there is no sound. Distribution version
> works
> > fine.
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> 
> At a guess, you're probably missing the development headers for the
> various audio-output libraries which MPlayer can be compiled to use.
> What does 'mplayer -ao help' on the compiled version say?

Well, there's certainly a difference :-) As I'm running alsa, and its 
missing from the locally-compiled version, that's probably what the 
problem is. So how do I correct it?

geoff at pvr[5]->mplayer -ao help
MPlayer SVN-r29205-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Available audio output drivers:
	oss	OSS/ioctl audio output
	mpegpes	DVB audio output
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output
	null	Null audio output
	pcm	RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

geoff at pvr[6]->/usr/bin/mplayer -ao help
MPlayer SVN-r27937 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
23, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Available audio output drivers:
	oss	OSS/ioctl audio output
	alsa	ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
	arts	aRts audio output
	esd	EsounD audio output
	pulse	PulseAudio audio output
	jack	JACK audio output
	sdl	SDLlib audio output
	mpegpes	DVB audio output
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Audio Decoder output
	null	Null audio output
	pcm	RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

129 audio & 258 video codecs