Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 27.02.2012 12:52, Nicolas Chauvet pisze:
> 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)
> 
This still does not solve the problem for F-17.

Julian