Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 26.02.2012 12:49, Nicolas Chauvet pisze:
> 2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com>:
>> W dniu 26.02.2012 11:18, Nicolas Chauvet pisze:
>>> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

Julian