Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/27/2012 02:55 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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.

+1

Ralf