Build multithreaded mplayer

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Build multithreaded mplayer so HD x264 videos won't crap out

==Dependancies==

 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall



===x264===

 $ wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-?????.tar.gz
 $ tar xzvf yasm-0.80.tar.gz
 $ cd yasm-0.8.0
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo checkinstall -D --pkgname=yasm --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" \
 --maintainer "$USER" --pkgversion "0.8.0" --backup=no \
 --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default
 $ make distclean

 $ sudo apt-get purge x264 libx264-dev

 $ git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
 $ cd x264
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
 $ make
 $ sudo checkinstall -D --pkgname=x264 --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" \
 --maintainer "$USER" --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-0.0ubuntu1" --backup=no \
 --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default
 $ make distclean


 sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list \
  --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
 sudo apt-get -q update
 sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
 sudo apt-get -q update

===Misc===

 $ suto apt-get install libxv-dev liblircclient-dev w32codecs


 $ mkdir -v ~/.mplayer
 $ ln -sv /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf


==Mplayer==


 $ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
 $ git clone http://git.gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt.git 
 $ rm -rf mplayer/libavcodec mplayer/libavformat mplayer/libavutil 
 $ cp -a ffmpeg-mt/libavcodec mplayer/
 $ cp -a ffmpeg-mt/libavformat mplayer/
 $ cp -a ffmpeg-mt/libavutil mplayer/

===build===

 $ cd mplayer
 $ ./configure --confdir=/etc/mplayer
 $ make
 $ sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" \
 --pkgname mplayer --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default \
 --pkgversion "3:1.0~svn-`grep "#define VERSION" version.h | cut -d"-" -f2`" \
 --provides "mplayer,mencoder"
 $ make distclean

 nano ~/.mplayer/config

 [default]
 # get spdif passthrough working (not related to this how to)
 ao=alsa:device=spdif
 afm=hwac3
 channels=6
 ac="hwdts,hwac3,"
 
 # use 2 threads
 lavdopts="threads=2"


==Links==
*[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049449 Compiling mplayer with multi-core decoding support ]
*[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=558538 Successfully install the svn MPlayer under Hardy Heron ]