Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Joseph D. Wagner]

On 02/26/2012 02:18 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 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 ?
It's my understanding that mplayer2 does not yet have a gui.

Joseph D. Wagner