Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

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