Hello folks,
Something similar to this was mentioned at the end of a recent thread
("MPD reads Artist Tag Incorrectly (could be a bug)."), concerning the
unavailability of libmp4ff under Fedora 12. The issue seems to boil down to
the fact that MPD is using a library which has been discontinued by its
developers, and is supposed to start using some other library instead. The
point of this message is partly to bring up this issue, and partly to
provide a workaround for Ubuntu users who wish to build MPD with MP4
support. And partly to make sure I didn't miss anything really obvious ;)
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu install to 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx") and
discovered that MPD's configure script couldn't find the file "mp4ff.h", and
was thus unable to enable the MP4 input format.
There doesn't seem to be any info about this on the MPD wiki, and not much
in other places, but after some digging I discovered a few things:
- Max Kellermann already knows about this, since he posted last year to a
discussion of the Debian bug for this issue ("
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550679#57";). I'm assuming
that fixing this is on somebody's to-do list, but I didn't see anything in
Mantis for it, so I'm not sure whether to file a bug or just let it go, or
whether I've missed something somewhere.
- The Debian bug report discussion also contains an instruction from one
of the faad2 developers to "use mp4v2 instead (if it is MPL-compatible) or
ffmpeg (prefered) [sic]."
- Although the Ubuntu packages have been "deleted" and are not available
via apt, the .deb files for Lucid versions of both libmp4ff-dev (which
contains mp4ff.h) and its dependency libmp4ff0 are available from
launchpad.net. I downloaded them and installed them with $(dpkg -i) and was
subsequently able to build MPD release-0.15.9 with working mp4 support. The
header file that MPD looks for (mp4ff.h) doesn't appear to have been
relocated into any other package: a search using $(apt-file mp4ff) came up
empty.
- I've also discovered that the mpd package from the gmpc mpd-trunk ubuntu
PPA is built with mp4 support and without installing the libmp4ff package;
I'm not sure how this is arranged.
Ubuntu users can find those packages at these URLs:
libmp4ff0 package info:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/libmp4ff0/2.7-2
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/libmp4ff0/2.7-2>libmp4ff0 .deb
file: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35261144/libmp4ff0_2.7-2_amd64.deb
libmp4ff-dev package info:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/libmp4ff-dev/2.7-2
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/libmp4ff-dev/2.7-2>libmp4ff-dev
.deb file:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35261142/libmp4ff-dev_2.7-2_amd64.deb
Thanks to all of you for your work in making mpd super great!
Cheers
-Ted
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