On Monday 04 November 2002 09:02, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
The Mplayer package provided by SuSE has some features turned off at compile-time for legal reasons. They say you can recompile it by changing a line in the spec file, but I don't think it is a good idea because:
- - some options are still disabled - - most of all, libdvdnav is included in MPlayer, so you can't install it separately (which is a problem for Xine, for example).
So I've rebuilt some new RPM packages for MPlayer. It took a basic source-RPM file on http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~rainer/rpms and modified it.
- - changed the package name from "mplayer" to "MPlayer" so that it looks like the same package to YaST2 - - changed the version number from 0.90-0.pre8 to 0.90pre8 so that YaST2 doesn't try to upgrade it with the one on the install CD - - libdvdnav is not included, so you can use a separate RPM package for it - - all video / audio possibilities are activated at compile-time - - split in 3 RPM packages : MPlayer, MPlayer-gui and MPlayer-skin-default
I can give these RPM packages and the source-RPM to anyone asking for it. They are for SuSE 8.1. I didn't test them a lot, but enough to know they work for DivX and DVD (the navigation support is bad, though). This way, I could install Xine (from Skyblade) with no problem, everything works. Reminder: I'm not a RPM guru, so there could be some caveats with these packages. They work for me and for about eight other people, that's all I can say.