[vox-tech] mplayer configuration

[Hai Yi]

thank you tony for the response. I'll check that. That I decided to compile
source was not to correct the error - just like to play it but bang! I hit
the wall...

Hai

On Dec 30, 2007 10:56 PM, Troy Arnold <troy-vox at zenux.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:31:32PM -0500, Hai Yi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have ubuntu 7.04 install on my  system (CPU core duo 6300)
> >
> > Now I want to play DVD with mplayer, which is preinstalled. However, the
> > image was totally unviewable - only mosaic-like blocks. Anyway, it might
> be
> > the codec. I just feel like re-installing the mplayer. So I removed the
> > existing one and started downloading and installing a latest one.
> >
> > Problem is, the very first step, configuration failed when I run
> ./configure
>
> > /tmp/mplayer-conf--16148.c:1:20: error: signal.h: No such file or
> directory
>
> The error probably means you don't have the kernel-headers package for
> your
> installed kernel.
>
> But I don't know that building from source is going to be of benefit if
> all
> you're looking to do is play media.  Instead, the first thing to do is
> verify that these two packages are installed:
> w32codecs, libdvdcss
>
>
> -t
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