Re: Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

2012/2/27 Julian Sikorski <belegdol(a)gmail.com&gt;: > 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. I'm good with having someone to submit a newer ffmpeg/x264 snapshot for devel if needed. Nicolas (kwizart)