Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 27.02.2012 07:16, Ralf Corsepius pisze:
> 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
> 
> 
Well, I tried building it using system ffmpeg and have not succeeded
yet. I am really not sure if going against upstream is the smart choice
here, given that, at least in my case, I am going to need them to fix bugs.
Help in unbundling ffmpeg is welcome.

Julian