When switching editions, it would be nice to display an OSD message to
notify the user which edition is being played. This would be consistent
with visual feedback like on tracking switching, seeking, and so on.
Rather than introducing awkward hacks and special cases to determine
whether a file is being "restarted" (as it happens on edition switching)
to avoid clearing the OSD messages, simply never clear the OSD stack.
This is more consistent with handling of OSD bars too: they didn't
disappear when going to a new file (especially noticable when seeking
past the end of the file).
Compiling with full features requires development files for several
external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements. For
more information see the output of './configure --help' for a list of options,
or look at the list of enabled and disabled features printed after running
'./configure'. If you think you have support for some feature installed
but configure fails to detect it, the file config.log may contain information
about the reasons for the failure.
Libraries specific to particular video output methods
(you'll want at least one of VDPAU, GL or Xv):
- libvdpau (for VDPAU output, best choice for NVIDIA cards)
- libGL (OpenGL output)
- libXv (XVideo output)
general:
- libasound (ALSA audio output)
- various general X development libraries
- libfreetype (for libass)
- libfontconfig (for libass)
- libass
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libpostproc)
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal
Linux distributions. However FFmpeg is an exception (distro versions may be
too old to work at all or work well). For that reason you may want to use
the separately available build wrapper that first compiles FFmpeg libraries
and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
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