Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 13:20 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 26.02.2012 12:49, Nicolas Chauvet pisze: >> 2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <belegdol(a)gmail.com&gt;: >>> W dniu 26.02.2012 11:18, Nicolas Chauvet pisze: >>>> 2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <belegdol(a)gmail.com&gt;: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> The alternative would be to switch to mplayer2. What are your opinions? >>>> >>>> I have no problem with moving to mplayer2 unless it's tight to >>>> switching to libav over ffmpeg. But I don't think it would be >>>> related. >>>> Is there any drawback to moving to mplayer2 ? >>> >>> Well, I am not sure really. The last release was almost a year ago, but >>> the git has been relatively active: >>> >>> http://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2/ >>> >>> mplayer has a much bigger developer base, though. >>>> >>>> The current situation cannot hold any longer given that even for minor >>>> ffmpeg update, I need to rebuild mplayer anyway. So given that's not >>>> supported upstream I cannot see any reason to continue with this >>>> situation. >>>> >>>> Thx for working on this. >>>> >>>> Nicolas (kwizart) >>>> >>> I'd say the best solution would be to build mplayer using internal >>> ffmpeg, and then offer mplayer2 as an alternative. I have a working spec >>> for mplayer w/ internal ffmpeg, it only does not build on rawhide due to >>> gcc-4.7 shenaningans. yeah so lets build it for F-16 without gcc.-4.7 . >> >> No, one need to make a decision, those are not parallel installable IIRC. >> >> >> Nicolas (kwizart). >> > Ah, indeed. Then I'm in favour of mplayer w/ internal ffmpeg. Obviously, they suggest use internal ffmpeg , as all others who ship internal software . But first I'd like to know if you try with new ffmpeg-0.10 which have new x264 , or stable ffmpeg from rpmfusion , in F-16 environment .

Other thing that would be nice is a link for "mplayer 20120204 snapshot".

> > Julian > Thanks,