Compiling MPlayer gives errors

i did some searching and read that .asx files are only for micro$oft and will only work with the windows media player. now if quick time will work, real player will work, and xmovie(and many others to play mpegs) do you think mr. bill will ever help us out? ummm, no is my guess.

SD

if anything is wrong in my post please correct me

i'm not sure about this but mplayer might be able to play those files
i think it also supports asf

[Gaenya]

Yep as Ralinx said mplayer play them

do you think mr. bill will ever help us out?

not unless they put a gun to his head
and even then i'm not sure he would

[Feztaa]

I can guarantee that he won't.

The whole point of developing the proprietary asf/wmf standard was so that people would have to use windows in order to watch them. It's just one of the many ways that Mr. Bill is trying to eradicate linux/others. If he released a linux program that could play them, he'd be shooting himself in the foot.

But his plan sort of backfired anyway, because mplayer _does_ play them, if you compile in the win32 codecs (not hard, just rtfm before you compile).

dang it.......and mplayer was the only media player i had a hard time compiling.
i tried the tarball and the rpm as well. guess its back to the drawing board to give it another shot. :

SD

[Feztaa]

Your best bet is the tarball.

Remember, if you have trouble running it once it's compiled, read the error message carefully the most common error message actually contains instructions on how to fix the error ;D

i will be posting back with error messages i assure you!!! hehe
too bad mplayer's site has been down for the last hour. oh well, tomorow is another day

[Feztaa]

Ok. Whatever you do, don't go to the mplayer mailing list for help, they will likely just scream "RTFM!!!" at you. I (and likely others here, as well) can probably walk you though any problems you may have

ok, heres the message i get when i run make
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gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp0: no such file or directory

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on MPlayers support page it says this :
"The facts : MPlayer's compile process needs the --disable-gcc-checking to proceed upon detecting a GCC version of 2.96 (apparently it needs this option on egcs too"

i have gcc 3.0 anyhow for whatever that matters and i wonder if i really should downgrade to 2.95.2 like the manual says.............

but i tried a few different commands to disable gcc checking during the make but i dont know what the command is exactly. also a search through rpm manager shows nothing about cpp0 so what could be the problem? thanks

SD