Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 14:10 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > 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. this look like issues with new version of libpng on F-17 , try add png-devel in BuildRequires (just a guesse in dark) . > > Julian >