As you can tell from the subject I'm having a frustrating time compiling mplayer. I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and then decided to do a clean install after running into some problems. Now I have to reinstall all my software.

I started with the Nvidia drivers, not too many problems. Then moved onto mplayer.

./configure worked fine, so moved onto make. It did its thing for a long time and then spat out this error:

In file included from /usr/include/linux/list.h:7,
from ../osdep/kerneltwosix.h:5,
from vo_fbdev.c:21:
/usr/include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
/usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/include/linux/prefetch.h:64: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [vo_fbdev.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bekkerd/MPlayer-1.0pre5/libvo'
make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2

I never had this problem on 9.1, what's happened? All dependencies are installed. My config.mak file looks as follows:

# -------- Generated by configure -----------

LANG = C
LANGUAGES = en
TARGET_OS = Linux
DESTDIR =
prefix = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local
BINDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin
DATADIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/share/mplayer
MANDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/man
CONFDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/etc/mplayer
LIBDIR = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/lib
#AR = ar
CC = cc
AWK = gawk
RANLIB = true
INSTALL = install
# OPTFLAGS = -O4 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math
EXTRA_INC =
OPTFLAGS = -I../libvo -I../../libvo -O4 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 $(EXTRA_INC)
STRIPBINARIES = yes

PRG = mplayer
PRG_MENCODER = mencoder



MPLAYER_NETWORK = yes
STREAMING_LIVE_DOT_COM = no
MPLAYER_NETWORK_LIB = -lnsl
DVBIN = yes
VIDIX = yes
SHARED_PP = no
CONFIG_PP = yes
CONFIG_RISKY = yes
CONFIG_MP3LAME = no
LIBMENU = no
I18NLIBS =
MATROSKA_INTERNAL = yes
MATROSKA_EXTERNAL = no
MATROSKA_LIB =

OPENDIVX = no

UNRARLIB = yes
HAVE_FFPOSTPROCESS = yes
PNG = no
JPEG = no
GIF = no

EXTRA_LIB =
Z_LIB =
HAVE_MLIB = no
WIN32_LIB =
STATIC_LIB =
ENCA_LIB =
HAVE_PTHREADS = yes

X11_INC =
X11DIR =

HAVE_XVMC_ACCEL = no

# for libavcodec:
SRC_PATH=..
LIBPREF=lib
LIBSUF=.a
SLIBPREF=lib
SLIBSUF=.so

# video output
X_LIB = -lnsl
GGI_LIB =
MLIB_LIB =
MLIB_INC =
DXR2_INC =
DVB_INC =
PNG_LIB =
JPEG_LIB =
GIF_LIB =
SDL_LIB =
SVGA_LIB =
AA_LIB =
CACA_INC =
CACA_LIB =

# audio output
ALSA_LIB =
NAS_LIB =
ARTS_LIB =
ARTS_INC =
ESD_LIB =
ESD_INC =
JACK_LIB =
JACK_INC =
SGIAUDIO_LIB =

# input/demuxer/codecs
TERMCAP_LIB =
LIRC_LIB = -llirc_client
LIRCC_LIB =
DVDREAD_LIB = -Llibmpdvdkit2 -lmpdvdkit
DVDKIT = no
DVDKIT2 = yes
DVDKIT_SHARED = no
SDL_INC =
W32_DEP = loader/libloader.a
W32_LIB = loader/libloader.a
DS_DEP = loader/dshow/libDS_Filter.a loader/dmo/libDMO_Filter.a
DS_LIB = loader/dshow/libDS_Filter.a loader/dmo/libDMO_Filter.a
AV_DEP = libavcodec/libavcodec.a
AV_LIB = libavcodec/libavcodec.a
CONFIG_LIBAVFORMAT = no
ZORAN = no
FAME = no
FAME_LIB =
MP1E_DEP =
MP1E_LIB =
ARCH_LIB = -lpthread -ldl -rdynamic
XVID = no
XVID_INC =
XVID_LIB =
DECORE_LIB =
MENCODER = yes
ENCORE_LIB =
DIRECTFB_INC = -I/usr/include/directfb
DIRECTFB_LIB = -ldirectfb
CDPARANOIA_INC =
CDPARANOIA_LIB = -lcdda_interface -lcdda_paranoia
FREETYPE_INC =
FREETYPE_LIB =
FONTCONFIG_INC =
FONTCONFIG_LIB =
FRIBIDI_INC =
FRIBIDI_LIB =
LIBLZO_LIB=
MAD_LIB =
VORBIS_LIB = -ldv
THEORA_LIB =
FAAD_LIB =
INTERNAL_FAAD = yes
SMBSUPPORT_LIB =
XMMS_PLUGINS = no
XMMS_LIB =
MACOSX = no
MACOSX_FRAMEWORKS =

# --- Some stuff for autoconfigure ----
TARGET_ARCH_X86 = yes
TARGET_WIN32 = no
TARGET_CPU=686
TARGET_MMX = yes
TARGET_MMX2 = yes
TARGET_3DNOW = no
TARGET_3DNOWEX = no
TARGET_SSE = yes
TARGET_ALTIVEC =

# --- GUI stuff ---
GTKLIB =
GLIBLIB =
GTK_LIBS =
GUI = no
DEBUG = -DDEBUG

just get the packman rpms or something

I'd rather have an optimised mplayer, thanks anyway.

Just posting so that hopefully people will have a look, still no joy with compilation. The rpm suggestion doesn't solve the bigger problem of things not compiling.

I need to be able to compile from source.

DAve

Okay,

I used cvs to get the latest source codes and it now compiles just fine, so for the record:

MPlayer-1.0pre5 works on Suse 9.1 but NOT on Suse 9.2

Hope that saves someone the trouble I went to!

Dave

Hi Guys,

I am new bie as well. I dont know much about compiling stuff and running. I had trouble installing MPlayer on SuSE before. But I found the way by which one can install MPlayer 9.2 very easily.
The steps are listed on link:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...opic=7482&st=0
The steps are below:

(1) Open the control center -> YaST modules -> Software -> Change Source of Installation
(2) Click Add
(3) Select http
Put packman.iu-bremen.de in the site field
Put suse/9.2 in the path field.
(4) Close it.
(5) Open "Install and Remove Software" from same place.
(6) Search of "mplayer". You will see "MPlayer" and "mplayerplug-in". Install both. You might need "CD1" (If you install from CD or may be DVD) for that. It will finish smoothly.
(7) Now go to control center -> KDE Components -> File Associations and look for "video" catagory in file extensions. There are bunch of stuff inside video. We have to make "MPlayer" as default program for types in which "MPlayer" appears. So click on any type and see the "Application Preference Order" on right side. If "MPlayer" is there, then make it top most by selecting it and click "Move up".
(8) Close the control center and logout and login. (No need to do logout-login but I play at safe side)
(9) Open firefox or any browser and try to play video files. It should play inside it. At very first I played trailers from Apple which are in quicktime format.
(10) Enjoy.

This thing works on mine very smoothly. Thanks to the guy who did this RPM. Also thanks to that forum on which I found answer. I think it should also work for 9.1 if you put "suse/9.1" in step 3. I havent tried yet.
You might consider removing old files for "MPlayer" if any. ( I mean you try to compile, make and it didnt go well ).

Regards,
Dhaval

Aha! One I can answer!

If you want to complile mplayer from scratch, rather than using someone else's rpms, but you don't want to grab the latest from CVS, you need to make a very small change to the source.

Specifically, there's a hack in there that works around a bug in certain of the 2.5 development kernels. Unfortunately, it causes problems with recent 2.6 kernels, most notably the one shipped with SuSE 9.2. The fix is to go into the file osdep/kerneltwosix.h and delete all but the first line of the file.

Then do your regular ./configure and make.

There's a cleaner fix including in CVS, and I presume that it will find its way into the next release, but this does the trick with the current pre5 builds.

S.

just a thought: why not install it directly from YaST using

HTTP
Server: "packman.iu-bremen.de"
Directory: "suse/9.2"

as source?

Sometimes you want to customize software. In the case of MPlayer, I find that it runs faster and more smoothly on my system if I compile it myself, rather than using Packman's fairly generic configuration.

Other people may want to compile it so that they can include or leave out specific features -- for example, if you're short on memory or space, you might want to leave out some codecs.

And besides, it's a great way to make the transition from newbie to experienced user -- that was how I decided I actually had a clue about what I was doing with Linux: I compiled MPlayer myself and it actually worked! <grin>

S.