Most of the scripts in TOOLS seem entirely useless. Remove them.
There were about 3 types of scripts:
- apparent developer tools (like file format dumpers, benchmarks)
=> I doubt any mplayer developer still alive even uses these
- helpers for encoding or ripping stuff
=> mencoder is gone, at least from this version of mplayer
- helpers meant for users (launching mplayer in weird ways, etc.)
=> just no, it will cause you more pain than gain
So no, there is nothing useful.
Under the scripts not deleted, these are needed for building mplayer:
file2string.py
matroska.py
vdpau_functions.py
These might have _some_ use (but still questionable):
binary_codecs.sh
checktree.sh
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
- libfontconfig
- 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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