Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2012/2/27 Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I'm good with having someone to submit a newer ffmpeg/x264 snapshot
for devel if needed.

Nicolas (kwizart)