Updating mplayer: how about using bundled ffmpeg?

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 26.02.2012 10:46, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> The alternative would be to switch to mplayer2. What are your opinions?
> 
> Regards,
> Julian
> 
> 
OK, thanks to the hints from other board users I was able to get mplayer
to build. Srpm is here:
https://share.ols.inode.at/JWTTUS3OVG1C0CJ3QQCHDQKFW1BG3J9MF2F0UIYP
It would be great if someone could test if it runs as expected as I do
not have new ffmpeg/x264 stack set up.

Julian