Failure of compiling mplayer

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 11 13:32:51 UTC 2010



--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Abu Attar Musharih <abuattar.musharih at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Abu Attar Musharih <abuattar.musharih at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Failure of compiling mplayer
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 4:49 AM
> > Or perhaps it is because you
> have to add your user to the video
> > group. /etc/group
> >
> > Anyway, it is not a problem with mplayer per se, it is
> a permissions
> > problem or a missing library.
> >
> 
> Now I have a clue why the mplayer installed on my fc14
> machine can not
> show any video nor  produce any sound.
> It is somehow because of the alsa driver inaccessible or
> maybe  not
> exist on my system.
> # mplayer -ao help
>     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
> 
> I searched for the alsa driver  in fc14 repo, seems it
> is not
> available. You only have wine-alsa driver which I
> downloaded to  fix
> the flv player (flvplayer_setup.exe). The flv player on my
> machine
> did not produce any sound either before the instalation of
> alsa.
> I tried  to install the latest alsa-driver from the
> link
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
> but failed.
> 
>  Has anyone tried the same thing and came out with a
> solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> Abu Attar
> -- 


Abu,

I compiled mplayer successfully on Fedora 14, but did not get any video.  Then I recompiled after 
# yum groupinstall "X Software Development"
and following the guide 

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html

Try that and report back.
As for alsa, it should be installed by default.  You need not worry about it, unless you really don't have any sound other than from mplayer?  

Regards,

Antonio 


      


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