On the subject of configure options, I updated xine today anyway, since my
xinelib install was out-of-date. Here are the configuration options Portage
used for my USE flags, which enable all codecs:

"/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.5/work/xine-lib-1.1.5/configure
--prefix=/usr --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share
/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
--disable-gnomevfs --enable-nls --disable-ipv6 --enable-samba
--disable-altivec --enab
le-v4l --enable-mng --with-imagemagick --enable-gdkpixbuf --enable-faad
--with-libflac --with-vorbis --with-speex --with-theora --without-wavpack
--enable-m
odplug --enable-a52 --with-external-a52dec --enable-mad
--with-external-libmad --enable-dts --with-external-libdts --enable-musepack
--with-external-libmpcd
ec --with-x --enable-xinerama --enable-vidix --enable-dxr3
--disable-directfb --enable-fb --enable-opengl --enable-aalib --with-caca
--with-sdl --enable-xvm
c --without-xcb --disable-oss --with-alsa --with-arts --with-esound
--with-pulseaudio --with-jack --enable-vcd --without-internal-vcdlibs
--enable-w32dll --
enable-real-codecs --enable-mmap --with-freetype --with-fontconfig
--enable-asf --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-optimizations --disable-syncfb
--with-xv-pa
th=/usr/lib --with-w32-path=/usr//win32
--with-real-codecs-path=/usr/lib/codecs --enable-fast-install
--disable-dependency-tracking --build=i586-pc-linux-gn
u"

You probably only need the things that start with "--with" or "--enable",
and some of the directories are probably different on your system. You'll
have to investigate those yourself.

On 4/17/07, Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nope. If you compile it by hand dependencies aren't handled at all. You'd
> have to look them up, but since you already have libxine installed, you
> almost certainly already have its dependencies. For compiling it, do a
> ./configure --help after extracting the source tarball to see what options
> you want, then ./configure <options>; make. Then do a sudo make install and
> you should be good to go.
>
> On 4/17/07, Michael Havens <bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > thanks Patrick. I was wondering, if I were to compile things from source
> > do
> > dependencies matter? I mean are dependencies an apt-get-yum-whatever
> > thing?
> >
> >
> > On Monday 16 April 2007 10:29 pm, Patrick C wrote:
> > > I don't know what xine packages are available for Ubuntu, but a quick
> > > search revealed a package called "libxine-extracodecs". Try installing
> > > that. If that doesn't work, you might want to reinstall amarok-xine
> > > afterwards. I don't know, because I got so sick of dealing with that
> > kind
> > > of thing on OpenSUSE that I just compile xine by hand on non-source
> > > distributions. There might be an amarok-gstreamer package you could
> > try.
> > >
> > > On 4/16/07, Michael Havens < bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 16 April 2007 6:45 am, Patrick C wrote:
> > > > > If kaffeine can play them, Amarok should be able to, since both
> > support
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > > xine engine. Open up Amarok, go to settings, then engine. Select
> > the
> > > >
> > > > xine
> > > >
> > > > > engine. Then select whatever output plugin you like. ALSA should
> > be
> > > >
> > > > fine,
> > > >
> > > > I did that but the response is:
> > > >
> > > >         xine is unable to load the drivers (or some such nonsense)
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