Help installing Mplayer on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

[n_murthy]

I got Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago on my PC. So i'm just getting used to some the features. I wanted to be able to watch MOV, DIVX, etc files so I downloaded Mplayer and removed Totem

 

After downloading and extracting Mplayer, a set of binary libraries from the mplayer.hu website, and a skin. i created a folder, /usr/lib/codec, for the libraries and placed them there. when i run ./configure i get the following terminal response:

 

root@murthy-desktop:~/Desktop/Applications/MPlayer-1.0rc2# ./configure

Detected operating system: Linux

Detected host architecture: i386

Checking for cc version ... 4.1.3, ok

Checking for host cc ... cc

Checking for cross compilation ... yes

Checking for CPU vendor ... GenuineIntel (15:2:7)

Checking for CPU type ... Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz

Checking for kernel support of mmx ... failed

It seems that your kernel does not correctly support mmx.

To use mmx extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!

Checking for kernel support of mmxext ... failed

It seems that your kernel does not correctly support mmxext.

To use mmxext extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!

Checking for kernel support of sse ... failed

It seems that your kernel does not correctly support sse.

To use sse extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!

Checking for kernel support of sse2 ... failed

It seems that your kernel does not correctly support sse2.

To use sse2 extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!

Checking for kernel support of cmov ... failed

It seems that your kernel does not correctly support cmov.

To use cmov extensions in MPlayer, you have to upgrade/recompile your kernel!

Checking for mtrr support ... yes

Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... CPU optimization disabled. CPU not recognized or your compiler is too old.

error

Checking for assembler support of -pipe option ... no

Checking for compiler support of named assembler arguments ... yes

Checking for assembler (as ) ... ok

Checking for .align is a power of two ... no

Checking for Linux kernel version ... 2.6.22-14-generic, ok

Checking for -lposix ... no

Checking for -lm ... no

Checking for langinfo ... no

Checking for language ... using en (man pages: en )

Checking for enable sighandler ... yes

Checking for runtime cpudetection ... no

Checking for restrict keyword ... none

Checking for __builtin_expect ... no

Checking for kstat ... no

Checking for posix4 ... no

Checking for lrintf ... no

Checking for mkstemp ... no

Checking for nanosleep ... no

Checking for socklib ... no

Checking for inet_pton() ... no (trying inet_aton next)

Checking for inet_aton() ... no (network support disabled)

Checking for network ... no

Checking for inttypes.h (required) ... no

Checking for bitypes.h (inttypes.h predecessor) ...

Error: Cannot find header either inttypes.h or bitypes.h. There is no chance for compilation to succeed. <--that's disheartening

 

Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.

 

..i opened through 'configure.log' but i don't know what i'm looking for. solutions anyone?

 

thanks

[hybrid]

Is there any particular reason you want to compile Mplayer from source? If not, it might just be easier to grab it from the repositories. From the command line:

 

Code:

sudo apt-get install mplayer mplayerplug-in

 

and it should do it all for you, and pick up the binary codecs you've already installed. Might also want to do this just in case the binary codecs don't want to be recognised:

 

Code:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32

 

Hope this helps. :)