[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and the missing ffmpeg

[sean darcy]

On 03/27/2011 05:31 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Krzysztof Duchnowski<amidk75<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>>>> Just follow the instructions configure gives. In case something
>>>> went wrong just delete the ffmpeg/ subdirectory and configure will
>>>> take care of it.
>>
>>> I did get todays svn to build, or at least to begin to build, by
>>> copying ffmpeg from git to the mplayer source tree.
>
> Don't do that, configure does it automatically for you.
>
>>> But if I run configure without ffmpeg in the source tree, it doesn't
>>>   give any instructions or otherwise take care of it.
>>
>> Not configure, *svn co* will do.
>
> No.
>
> svn checkout will only checkout MPlayer (but not FFmpeg which is needed to build
> MPlayer).
> Running configure in a fresh MPlayer checkout will offer you to pull a (new)
> copy of FFmpeg:
>
> $ svn co svn://mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
>
> $ cd mplayer
> $ ./configure
> No FFmpeg checkout, press enter to download one with git or CTRL+C to abort
>
> (Now press enter to download FFmpeg, you will need git installed.)
> On each subsequent call to configure FFmpeg will be updated.
>
> Carl Eugen

For the original post, I had done svn update, but configure had not 
dealt with ffmpeg.

I just did a whole new checkout, and that worked. Odd. I guess for some 
reason svn hadn't updated configure.

And I"m using an rpm spec file to build, so the clean source tree is 
copied to a build directory for each build.

sean