MPlayer is one of my favorite media players. It is used with such frontend as smplayer, gnome-mplayer or MPlayerGUI to provide a good alternative to Windows Media Player and VLC. First, I installed the necessary compiler toolchain.
- autoconf
- automake
- binutils
- bison
- cpp
- g77 or fort77
- gcc
- gettext
- g++
- libtool
- make
Next, I installed the necessary development libraries:
- libasound2-dev
- libbz2-dev
- libesd0-dev
- libfontconfig1-dev
- libfribidi-dev
- libjpeg62-dev
- libncurses5-dev
- libpng12-dev
- libxv-dev
Some useful libraries are not included in the Debian distribution, so I had to compile them on my own. They are faac, lame, libdca, live, x264 and xvidcore. First, I built liblzo.
tar xzvf /usr/src/lzo-2.04.tar.gz
cd lzo-2.04/
./configure --prefix /usr
make
make install
Then, I built the giflib.
tar xjvf /usr/src/giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2
cd giflib-4.1.6/
ls
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
I built cdparanoia.
tar xzvf /usr/src/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
cd cdparanoia-III-10.2/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
I compiled libdca in the following way:
tar xjvf libdca-0.0.5.tar.bz2
cd libdca-0.0.5/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
I built ogg, vorbis, theora and speex.
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
To compile lame, run:
tar xzvf /usr/src/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
cd lame-3.98.4/
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-expopt=full --enable-nasm
make
make install
Unpack live555 source in /usr/lib and compile live555 as follows:
cd /usr/lib/live
./genMakefiles linux
make
To compile x264, do:
tar xjvf /usr/src/x264-snapshot-20110102-2245.tar.bz2
cd x264-snapshot-20110102-2245/
sh configure --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-pic --disable-asm
make
make install
Compile the xvid library as follows:
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
make
make install
Finally, you're ready to compile MPlayer. Get the latest snapshot tarball and extract it:
wget ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf mplayer-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd mplayer-export-2009-05-29
CPPFLAGS='-DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-runtime-cpudetection --yasm=/usr/bin/yasm --language=all --confdir=/etc/mplayer
make
make install
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/mplayer
