Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Kevin Kofler]

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.

        Kevin Kofler