Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 13:20 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: 
> 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.

yeah so lets build it for F-16 without gcc.-4.7 .


> > 
> > 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.

Obviously, they suggest use internal ffmpeg , as all others who ship
internal software . But first I'd like to know if you try with new
ffmpeg-0.10 which have new x264 , or stable ffmpeg from rpmfusion  , in
F-16 environment . 
Other thing that would be nice is a link for "mplayer 20120204
snapshot".

> 
> Julian
> 
Thanks, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.