Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

[David Harel]

Jonathan, Thanks for your explanation.

I still don't get it.
The command emerge should have done the dependent packages before doing 
the desirable package anyway. Also, if I have to specify additional 
packages while doing mplayer, how do I add them? but last thing. I did 
emerge win32codec and THEN mplayer and that didn't work.

Jonathan Wright wrote:
> David Harel wrote:
>
>>> What are your use flags? Did the codec get installed during the emerge
>>> or was it 'skipped'?
>>
>>
>> I was not aware of the use flag. Is there a document how to use this
>> flag in case of media players?
>
>
> There's the win32codec which should allow you to play wmv's, along with
> realplayer which also installed that program/codec. You can run
> --verbose (or -v) on emerge to see the use flags for that program:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] --> emerge -pv mplayer
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies  ...done!
> [ebuild     U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 [1.0_pre7] -3dfx +3dnow
> +3dnowext +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl +cdparanoia
> +cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug +dga -directfb +divx4linux -doc +dts
> +dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode -esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0
> -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -mad -matroska
> -matrox +mmx +mmxext -mythtv -nas -nls +nvidia +opengl -oss +png +real
> +rtc +samba -sdl +sse -sse2 -svga -tga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2
> -vorbis +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 7,613 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 7,613 kB
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Or, look though /usr/portage/profiles/{use, use.local}.desc which give
> the descripts of the use flags. Also, if you have gentoolkit installed
> (emerge gentoolkit), you can run:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> jwright on jonathan [ profiles ] --> equery uses mplayer
> [ Searching for packages matching mplayer... ]
> [ Colour Code : set unset ]
> [ Legend    : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
> [           : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> [ Found these USE variables for media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 ]
>  U I
>  - - 3dfx          : Adds support for 3dfx video cards to XFree86.
>  + + 3dnow         : Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor
>
>   [ and so on.... ]
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> HTH
>

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Thanks.

David Harel,

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