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Re-installed Mplayer from source. Now sound doesn't work

Hi

Firstly:

Code:

$ uname -a

Linux debian 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Prior to installing Mplayer from source, I installed it from aptitude but DVD playback proved to be a pain in my ass so I thought I'd try another option and install it from source.

I downloaded MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2, unpacked it in /usr/local/bin/ and did the ./configure, make, make install. The usual.

It now seems to play dvds fine but I get picture, no sound. I have very minimal video and audio options now also, whereas previously I had gl, sdl etc. Now I have:

Code:

Available video output drivers:

        x11    X11 ( XImage/Shm )

        xover  General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers

        fbdev  Framebuffer Device

        fbdev2  Framebuffer Device

        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)

        cvidix  console VIDIX

        null    Null video output

        mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card

        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools

        png    PNG file

        tga    Targa output

        pnm    PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file

        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

And:

Code:

Available audio output drivers:

        oss    OSS/ioctl audio output

        mpegpes DVB audio output

        null    Null audio output

        pcm    RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

I'm thinking this can be resolved quite easily, but I just don't know how. Any ideas?

Thanks

OK, I reinstalled the package from aptitude and then installed libdvdcss2 after that. Everything seems to be OK now, and DVD playback is fine. I am still curious though what the problem was. I'm guessing I didn't point to the right place when compiling? Here's what vo/ao options I have now:

Code:

Available video output drivers:

        xmga    Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid)

        mga    Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)

        tdfxfb  3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5

        s3fb    S3 Virge over fbdev

        xv      X11/Xv

        x11    X11 ( XImage/Shm )

        xover  General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers

        gl      X11 (OpenGL)

        gl2    X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version

        dga    DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )

        sdl    SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)

        ggi    General Graphics Interface (GGI) output

        fbdev  Framebuffer Device

        fbdev2  Framebuffer Device

        svga    SVGAlib

        aa      AAlib

        caca    libcaca

        dxr3    DXR3/H+ video out

        directfb        Direct Framebuffer Device

        dfbmga  DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550

        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)

        cvidix  console VIDIX

        null    Null video output

        xvmc    XVideo Motion Compensation

        mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card

        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools

        png    PNG file

        jpeg    JPEG file

        gif89a  animated GIF output

        tga    Targa output

        pnm    PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file

        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

Code:

Available audio output drivers:

        oss    OSS/ioctl audio output

        alsa    ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output

        arts    aRts audio output

        esd    EsounD audio output

        pulse  PulseAudio audio output

        jack    JACK audio output

        nas    NAS audio output

        sdl    SDLlib audio output

        mpegpes DVB audio output

        null    Null audio output

        pcm    RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output

Is there anyway I can find out the compile options for the package?

Thanks

I read it somewhere that depending on how you install mplayer (via your package manager vs. from source) it looks for codecs in slightly different places
/usr/local/lib/codecs/ - if you compile from source
If you install mplayer and codecs through your package manager it will look for them in:
/usr/local/lib/win32/

The codecs aren't really a problem. Besides, during compilation, I pointed to where all my codecs were - /usr/lib/codecs. Like I say, Mplayer wasn't auto-detecting video/audio drivers correctly when building it from source, but everything seems more than fine when installing it from my package manager.