On Wednesday 16 July 2003 05:15 pm, Daniel Andor wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2003 12:06 am, David Bishop wrote: > I was blindly under the assumption that one would be using mplayer debs > from Marillat, which do not have arts support compiled in. (He has a note > (as of 04/04/2003) about it on his webpage http://marillat.free.fr )
Yes, I saw some noise about how that is only because he's the Gnome maintainer, and hates KDE. But now I'm passing on gossip... > So if you compile mplayer yourself, or use another deb repository, then you > can be good with arts. I use his repository, but build from source. Only takes a few minutes, and makes it nice to use in Konqueror (don't have to stop noatun and wait for arts to timeout before viewing a webpage with video). For those of you who are scared to build from source, do this: add 'deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main' to your /etc/apt/sources.list run apt-get source mplayer while in some temp directory go into the newly created subdir then the debian subdir. edit the 'rules' file, look for an mplayer-custom rule, and change the configure to match what you want (add --with-arts, or whatever it is) go back to the main directory and run 'sudo debuild' when it's done crunching, go up one directory and use 'dpkg -i mplayer-custom-blah.deb' to install your shiny new package. If the buld dies complaining about missing packages, just copy and paste the package names into an apt-get install line. If you run into trouble, ask me. Nicely would be preferred, but not required. -- "Sorry about the whole 'bomb' thing" - Bruce Rollins D.A.Bishop
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