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From: "M. Zuelsdorff" <micha@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:33:15
Message-Id: 200304102332.50064.micha@dolbyco.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread by Martin Schlemmer
1 No, I don't make use of "USE" at all, since it's one of the really annoying
2 parts of the Gentoo distribution. There are thousands of packages in the
3 portage tree but not a single line on which USE-var is related to which
4 package.
5 All I was able to find was: "dvd adds support for DvDs". Fine. I'd never
6 thought that DvD support is disabled by default in a tool like Mplayer. And
7 in fact it is NOT, when I get the tool from the mplayer site, directly. So,
8 what is it worth this extra little fuzz? In the end, an experience like this
9 can only lead to a blind "better enable everything" since no one is able to
10 keep track of all bells and whistles each package comes with. And this way
11 making the USE mimik more or less obsolete.
12
13 Best regards.
14
15 micha
16
17 On Wednesday 09 April 2003 23:47, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
18 > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 00:48, M. Zuelsdorff wrote:
19 > > my experience with emerging Gentoo's Mplayer 0.90rc4 out of the box was:
20 > >
21 > > no DVD in the graphical menu.
22 > > And Martin Schlemmer's "gmplayer -dvd 1" here ends with a:
23 > > "MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread support!"
24 > >
25 > > That's why I did another installation manually in /usr/local/... feeding
26 > > configure with the appropriate parameters in advance. This version works.
27 >
28 > Did you have 'dvd' in USE ? If so, do:
29 >
30 > # emerge mplayer &> mplayer-build.log
31 >
32 > And mail me the log.
33
34
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Replies

Subject Author
RE: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread -- use flag comment Riyad Kalla <rsk@×××××××××.edu>
Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread Fred Van Andel <fred@××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread Thilo Bangert <thilo.bangert@×××.net>