[MPlayer-users] MPlayer fails to build (on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi!

On 2017-02-13 09:59 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> I tried to build current MPlayer, but the build failed with the following
> error:
> 
> ------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
> 
> libavcodec/vaapi_encode_vp8.c:20:27: fatal error: va/va_enc_vp8.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <va/va_enc_vp8.h>
>                            ^
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [libavcodec/vaapi_encode_vp8.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/auerswald/Software/mplayer/ffmpeg'
> make: *** [ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2
> 
> ------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
> 
> Perhaps a configure check for the needed header file could be added?
> 
> I used the following command line to start the build:
> 
>     svn up && make distclean && ./configure && make

  Hopefully fixed with SVN r37924

Thanks for the report,
  Alexander