The internal mplayer-0.90_pre6-r2 directory libao2 fails, so the complete "emerge mplayer" fails because of a missing ost/audio.h include file. This problem can be overcome by installing the ost include directory from a DVB driver package into /usr/include. I don't know if there is a portage package which does so, if not there should be one, and the package should also install automatically. I also recommend to make a package from the dvbstream tool found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvbtools/ Once I get familiar with portage packages and have some time, I might write both the package and the dependencies, but I don't know if you really want to wait until then.
Well, its not a problem here. Also not a problem for most of the other users. What, except fixing your problem does this package add to mplayer ? Lastly, Please attach a complete compile log of the failure. Thanks.
The feature dvb enables mplayer to replay all formats which mplayer can display over a DVB card. This is a satellite tuner card for digital tv-programs. Therefore it can be used to display for example a DivX-Video on your TV or record it on a VCR. The problem is that mplayer enables this feature if the corresponding device-nodes in /dev exists. This problem can be solved by adding the following code-snipet to the ebuild. I would suggest to use a new use-variable "dvb". This would disable this feature if not set and would stop the problem. When I have same free time I plan to create an ebuild for the driver- and utility-package for the dvb-card that can then be used as a dependency and will contain the nessecary includes.
Created attachment 3658 [details, diff] dvb.patch only use dvb-includes and add suppert when use-variable dvb is set
This USE flag will have to be approved first, and only one package using it may not get it there. Sure this is not a mplayer bug that we should report to the mplayer devs ? Generally it should detect and use most things. If you think this maybe be a bug mplayer side, please attatch the compile log, and also configure.log or config.log.
Does mplayer-0.90_rc1 still have this issue ?
well i checked it, and yes this problem is existing right now in mplayer-0.90_rc1 But as it occurs only when there is a /dev/ost/video and no includes in /usr/include/ost. And so I installed them there. You're right, I should report this to the mplayer-developers. PS: If you don't know already: mplayer-0.90rc2 is out
Does rc4 still have the issue ?
They seem to check the include path automatically: MPlayer-0.90rc3.tar.bz2: Checking for DVB ... no (specify path to DVB/ost/include with --with-extraincdir=DIR) happens when I remove /usr/include/ost and Checking for DVB ... yes happens when I reinstall that. So DVB support ist toggled wether the driver include files are there or not. That's an acceptable behaviour I think. I would say this is fixed.
Ok, great.
