Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 27.02.2012 13:20, Ralf Corsepius pisze:
> On 02/27/2012 12:40 PM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Where can I find your *.specs/*srpms?
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
The current version (with bundled ffmpeg) is here:
https://share.ols.inode.at/IJM7N7JP71NCU8DVTA2JEFWKL3YC3V1LEMR3TBRZ
it fails to build on Fedora 17 and above due to [1].

Julian

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/1024