Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 27.02.2012 13:29, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
Keep in mind that revision 34653 and above won't build against
ffmpeg-0.10 due to missing features. This equals to 20120204 mplayer
snapshot.

Julian