Problems building mplayer [WAS: Greetings Mplayer Maintainers!]

Ok, ran into my first problem: cfg-common.h:530:5: error: initializer element is not constant cfg-common.h:530:5: error: (near initialization for 'common_opts[114].p') The line in cfg-common.h is using pp_help which is provided by the ffmpeg header: /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc/postprocess.h Which contains: #if LIBPOSTPROC_VERSION_INT < (52<<16) typedef pp_context pp_context_t; typedef pp_mode pp_mode_t; extern const char *const pp_help; ///< a simple help text #else extern const char pp_help[]; ///< a simple help text #endif I'm not sure how (52<<16) is evaluated but the version major is defined as 51 so I'm assuming the first part of the if clause is used instead of the else portion. /usr/include/ffmpeg is in the header search path so I don't think it's a problem of not finding it. Any ideas? Thanks, Richard