Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

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.