Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 27.02.2012 13:54, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> W dniu 27.02.2012 13:20, Ralf Corsepius pisze:
>> On 02/27/2012 12:40 PM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>> W dniu 27.02.2012 07:16, Ralf Corsepius pisze:
>>>> On 02/27/2012 02:55 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>>> Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>>>>> I was trying to update mplayer and most of the problems I am having
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> due to using shared ffmpeg, which is discouraged and unsupported by
>>>>>> upstream. The latest error is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> libmpdemux/mp_taglists.c:27:34: fatal error:
>>>>>> libavformat/internal.h: No
>>>>>> such file or directory
>>>>>>
>>>>>> when trying to build 20120204 snapshot. Looking at the svn log,
>>>>>> this was
>>>>>> added in revision 34243 (from 20111023). This all seems to indicate
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> trying to use system ffmpeg is an uphill battle which will always
>>>>>> going
>>>>>> to keep our mplayer behind, as well as piss upstream off when we come
>>>>>> asking for help.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think bundling is an acceptable solution, especially with
>>>>> something
>>>>> like FFmpeg which has security updates quite frequently.
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> Ralf
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, I tried building it using system ffmpeg and have not succeeded
>>> yet. I am really not sure if going against upstream is the smart choice
>>> here, given that, at least in my case, I am going to need them to fix
>>> bugs.
>>> Help in unbundling ffmpeg is welcome.
>>
>> Where can I find your *.specs/*srpms?
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
> Here is the spec in the shared ffmpeg version - it fails to build due to
> internal.h inclusion.
> You need to comment out the gui building - I have not figured out why it
> fails yet.
> 
> https://share.ols.inode.at/72IFK6BJDE97LBN2C2AP6PEJ7XMW5F7AHPQ3V2L0
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
To be more verbose, gui fails to build due to ff_png not being returned
by objdump on libavcodec.so. I have no idea why, since according to
rpmfusion build logs both ffmpeg-0.8.9-1.fc17 and ffmpeg-0.10-1.fc18
were built with png support.

Julian