mplayer compiles without config files

[GoofballJM1]

Okay, I emerged the newest version of mplayer last night for the purpose of listening to a WMA stream. It has worked out of the box every time I have run it in the past from the CLI. Unfortunately since version 1.0 it has never worked, here is my output when I stream a .asx file:

[djoptimum]

ive got exactly the same problem - wierider though it worked fine for a few days then literally stopped doing so

i didnt change anything nor re-emerge it

any ideas peeps?

[celtx]

I think unless you need to override defaults then the config files are read from /usr/share/mplayer directory

cat /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
##
## MPlayer config file
##
## This file can be copied to /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf and/or ~/.mplayer/config


another issue is that well the code is out of date
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
2004.07.15, Wednesday :: MPlayer 1.0pre5 released

* media-video/mplayer
Latest version available: 1.0_pre4-r7
Latest version installed: 1.0_pre4-r7

there have also been MAJOR updates in CVS since July.
(note you also want the CVS source for ffmpeg to copy the dirs libavcodec and libavformat into mplayer source tree)

by the way it would be more appropriate to use
mplayer -playlist http://www.byuradio.org/streaming/instrumental.asx
since it is not a media file url but rather a redirector playlist url.

and just for your info
mplayer -user-agent "NSPlayer/4.10" mms://windowsmedia2.byu.edu/Instrumental
returned this with my instaled mplayerl
MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT streaming(network) support
an issue since this is a streamed file which uses the network.

I am working on compiling my own CVS version.

[GoofballJM1]

Okay did as you suggested. Those errors went away for the most part, but still no sound. Here is what it does now:

[celtx]

For some reason this is newer than the version available in my environment.
My suggestion was

1. to forget using ebuilds for mplayer and build yourself from scratch using the CVS source code.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
read about getting the CVS source at end of page

then do a ./configure and read what libraries you are missing for codecs or input/output.

use emerge to get these missing packages installed and reconfigure
for live.com streaming support which you may want read instructions at
http://www.live.com/mplayer/
when you are satisfied with output of ./configure script type make
this worked okay for me (of course i just run my local version from build dir and do not install it)

cd /home/user/mplayer_builddir
./mplayer -playlist http://www.byuradio.org/streaming/instrumental.asx

2. Alternative I found later is that you can add network to your USE flags in
the emerge to allow adding network support when building mplayer using ebuild.
This option was not enabled by default in my settings under /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
or overridden in /etc/make.conf

USE="network" emerge mplayer

during the build you should see in configure output
Enabled optional drivers:
Input: network

a test shows this worked as well with the installed version of mplayer or
mplayer -playlist http://www.byuradio.org/streaming/instrumental.asx

[GoofballJM1]

It appears that I didn't have "network" in my USE flags. I re-emerged with "network and it seems to be working. Thanks for the help!
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