Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com>:
> 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 ?

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)