[LAU] Building avplay

[Tito Latini]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:40:59PM -0400, jonetsu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How is the avplay binary, part of libav, produced at compilation
> time ?  avconv and avprobe are produced and installed, but there's no
> sign of avplay.  configure only have a --disable-avplay option.  The
> make log shows no sign of avplay but shows the compiling of avprobe and
> avconv.  libav is configured simply with:
> 
> ./configure --enable-shared
> 
> This is libav-11.8.
> 
> What is the incantation to have avplay built ?

(just downloaded and tested)

it depends on SDL, 1.2.1 <= version < 1.3.0

sh> cd libav-11.8
sh> sdl-config --version
1.2.15
sh> ./configure && make avplay
sh> ./avplay
avplay version 11.8, Copyright (c) 2003-2016 the Libav developers
  built on Oct  7 2016 15:43:12 with gcc 5.3.0 (GCC)
Simple media player
usage: avplay [options] input_file

An input file must be specified
Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man avplay'