I've got some advice for you.

[Samuel Hocevar]

 [ On Sasha's request I'm reformatting his message here, so that it's
   more readable ]

Hey,

   Hi all, i just grabbed and installed the latest 2.71 client and
noticed the following things. perhaps they may be useful to some people:

   1) Installation won't work with the latest (0.9-beta3) ALSA drivers.
The make quits with a bunch of errors toward the end of compilation.
However it is possible to use the newest ALSA stuff as follows:

     -- install the stable ALSA 0.5.10 drivers
     -- install VideoLAN client (using ./configure --enable-alsa)
     -- install the new ALSA 0.9-beta3

   When i restarted, the VideoLAN client worked fine, as did the new
ALSA driver features (the 3D control in alsamixer is especially cool
when watching movies with spatially "deep" audio, like the concert
scenes in Almost Famous).

   2) On my first try (./configure with no options, but with the ALSA
0.9-beta3 drivers in place) the client installed ok and started playing,
but then 2 seconds later crashed the machine so hard that i couldn't
recover (keyboard and mouse unresponsive, couldn't even force-quit the X
server) and had to force a reboot -- first time that's happened for me
since i started using linux over three years ago.

   Anyone else get this? (my config: RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.19, XFree86
3.3.6, SDL 1.2.0; Riva TNT2 video card)

   Now that i got the client to make, it plays beautifully -- much
smoother than 0.2.70 on my machine, and no segfaults. Way to go, guys!

-sm