Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Sérgio Basto]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 14:10 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: 
> W dniu 27.02.2012 13:54, 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
> >>
> >>
> > Here is the spec in the shared ffmpeg version - it fails to build due to
> > internal.h inclusion.
> > You need to comment out the gui building - I have not figured out why it
> > fails yet.
> > 
> > https://share.ols.inode.at/72IFK6BJDE97LBN2C2AP6PEJ7XMW5F7AHPQ3V2L0
> > 
> > Julian
> > 
> > 
> To be more verbose, gui fails to build due to ff_png not being returned
> by objdump on libavcodec.so. I have no idea why, since according to
> rpmfusion build logs both ffmpeg-0.8.9-1.fc17 and ffmpeg-0.10-1.fc18
> were built with png support.

this look like issues with new version of libpng on F-17 , try add
png-devel in BuildRequires (just a guesse in dark) .
  
> 
> Julian
> 

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Sérgio M. B.