Although there is a lot of talk that the version of gcc that comes with Mandrake works perfectly, I beg to differ. At least with mencoder and lame. Both are needed if you are planning of encoding DivX movies.
As far as just playing films goes, yes, the --disable-gcc-checking works fine... but it was when I started trying to encode my own that things started going wrong. I wasn't getting sound, or was, but just hisses and buzzes, and mencoder wasn't functioning properly. After an install of the gcc 3.0.4 all the problems vanished and now it works perfectly ;-) On 7 Jun 2002, John McQuillen wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 23:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > I've lost the thread about changing my compiler version, which one > > > do I have to have. > > > John > > > > Type 'gcc --version' in a terminal. That'll probly return > > '2.96'. When Red Hat 7.0 was released, it had a real buggy 2.96 > > version. Mandrake's 2.96 is completely different. So to get around > > mplayer's authors rants about gcc 2.96, compile their source with > > > > ./configure --disable-gcc-checking > > make > > su (give root password) > > make install > > > My experience with MPlayer is that it does not play avi's properly when > compiled with gcc 2.96 (YMMV). Anyway, it can't hurt compiling with the > developer's preferred kernel, can it? I could not aggree more. Yes I was also stubborn, but after hours of %$#^# around, I realised that there is no real "cheat" to this problem... just upgrade / downgrade. They would not put such an emphasis on it if it wasn't true. > I compiled it using: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --cc=gcc-3.0.4 > make > su (root password) > make install > > And it works beautifully. Yeah, it sure does. It brought a whole new concept to the multimedia role of Linux I think. Finally a descent player that supports a LOT, is fast and very stable. It does take a lifetime to learn and keep up with the ever changing encoding properties, but it's woprth every minute of it =) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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