Discussion: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compiling%20MPlayer

[andrew.46]

This thread is intended for discussion of the guide:

Compiling MPlayer
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Compiling%20MPlayer

Please feel free to discuss any positive things about the guide here and also free to step in and fix any errors you can see. It is a wiki and thus community driver and edited...

[andrew.46]

To kick this new thread off I have added in a short explanatory note on the wiki concerning bluray playback with MPlayer. Considering losing the MPlayer 2 section as well, the wiki page was designed to build the original MPlayer not the fork and quite frankly I don't even use MPlayer 2. Perhaps someone will keep this section up to date, mostly it is my work I guess...

[aleblanc]

On Ubuntu 12.04 I think the prefix should be /usr instead of /usr/local
Hence I use the following command for compilation:

cd $HOME/mplayer_build && \
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer && \
cd mplayer && \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/mplayer_build/mplayer_deps/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
./configure \
           --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/mplayer_build/mplayer_deps/usr/include" \
           --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/mplayer_build/mplayer_deps/usr/lib" \
           --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
           --prefix=/usr && \
make -j 2 && make html-chunked && \
mkdir -vp doc-pak && \
cp -v DOCS/HTML/*/* AUTHORS Changelog LICENSE README doc-pak && \
sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/mplayer_build" \
   --pkgname mplayer --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default \
   --pkgversion "2:1.0~svn$(LC_ALL=C svn info 2> /dev/null | \
     grep Revision | cut -d' ' -f2)" --provides "mplayer,mencoder" && \
make distclean && sudo ldconfig

[andrew.46]

I guess it depends how you want to organise your system, good to see the guide being modified to suit your needs!