I'm not doing anything radical with the mpd-trunk packages, in fact,
after looking at the build logs it seems that mpd is building mp4
support from FFmpeg. The headers for ffmpeg is provided by the
libavcodec-dev package.
--Taylor L-Wren
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:03 -0300, Ted wrote:
> 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
> 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
> 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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