Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

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.