Building mplayer from source in *Ubuntu 12.04

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/15/2012 01:59 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2012, 14:42:05 schrieb Karl Anliot:
>> I have constant problems with mplayer-gnome.  It won't start, it won't
>> stop, graphics mess up, crashes, and that's just the bugs.  ask me
>> about volume control.
>
> The main problem is that mplayer2 which is used by default in lubuntu is a
> broken build simply speaking. (tons of bugs)
> You could try installing mplayer (which is also available and gnome-mplayer
> can work together with it) and remove mplayer2 (when it isn't done
> automatically).
> This should then work much nicer.
>

Since mplayer in the Ubuntu repos seems abandoned, I use this page for 
building mplayer:
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mplayer.html

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