[MPlayer-users] [BUG] Can't play DVDs with ffmpeg12

[Luke Harrison]

On Sat, 11 May 2002 19:37:58 -0300
Carlos Laviola <carlos at laviola.org> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:12:56PM -0400, Luke Harrison wrote:
> > > Sure thing... I cvs update every day.  It's funny, because I am sure
> > > this used to work before, and it still works with a no-region DVD disc
> > > that I own, so it might be specific to just a few videos...
> > > 
> > Now you are just being stupid... The binary you used for debugging is cearly stripped..
> > In case you are new to linux/unix that means all debugging and other symbols are stripped to
> > reduce size. So if you did follow bugreports.html and compilied with debug=3 you must have "make install"
> > [not in the docs] - which of course will strip the binary.
> 
> I'd recommend you to not assume one's stupid just on your own.
> 
> 1. make install does not strip the binary.
> 
> claviola at herpes:~/code/src/main$ grep strip Makefile 
> claviola at herpes:~/code/src/main$ 
> 
> 2. gdb didn't work properly because you must be standing on the
> directory that contains the source code of the program you're debugging.
> I do not have debugging experience with gdb, so I didn't know that, and
> apparently, neither did you.
> 
> HAND.
> 
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Good call.... on the gdb part
wow that makes me look like an idiot
:)
... 
However, if you read the makefile, instead of greping
and you read the install man page
you'd see that install -s <program>
does in fact strip the binary


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Luke Harrison
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