329413 – media-video/mplayer: xanim USE flag doesn't do anything useful

Bug 329413 - media-video/mplayer: xanim USE flag doesn't do anything useful

Summary: media-video/mplayer: xanim USE flag doesn't do anything useful

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181959

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2010-07-22 13:02 UTC by Dean Matzkov
Modified:	2010-07-25 18:07 UTC (History)
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Description Dean Matzkov 2010-07-22 13:02:13 UTC

When merging mplayer with the xanim USE flag -- which pulls-in media-video/xanim as a dependency -- it still can't play videos that use xanim-based video codecs (such as Indeo or Cinepak).

The reason seems to be that when you try to play a video that uses an xanim-based video codec, mplayer tries to load a codec from /usr/lib/xanim/mods/*, but errors-out because it can't find it. bug #181959 describes this issue.

I'd suggest removing or masking the xanim USE flag because it doesn't do anything useful, at least amd64.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-25 18:07:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181959 ***