Updating mplayer in F-16

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2012/2/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 18:08 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>> 2012/2/29 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>> > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 00:41 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> after taking care of mplayer in F-17+ I have tried to check which is the
>> >> latest mplayer compiling w/ ffmpeg in F-16. The answer is 2011-09-24
>> >> snapshot, aka r34129 - in r34130 CODEC_ID_G729 was added, which is
>> >> missing from ffmpeg-0.8 branch.
>> >> This is almost a month fresher than what we have now, and limited
>> >> testing shows it fixes [1] at least.
>> >> The question is why Rathann chose to update to 2011-08-16 (r34996)
>> >> snapshot on 23rd September. Rathann, do you happen to remember? Were
>> >> there any things blocking update to later snapshot?
>> >> If not, I would like to update mplayer in F-16 to the latest possible
>> >> snapshot.
>> >
>> > I vote in ffmpeg-0_8_10-1_fc16 , just doesn't understand how it compile
>> > without update x264. since  ./configure of ffmpeg requires x264 >= 0.118
>> > Anyway this week I'm very busy so can't help much .
>>
>> This is ffmpeg 0.8.10 in F16 not 0.10.x from F-17 and later.
>
> ah , so I vote in ffmpeg 0.10.x in F16 .
Thxfully, you have no elector card in this area ;).
For the record,ffmpeg 0.10.x silently breaks it's ABI and has API changes.

There are even packages that currently fails to build from sources in
F-17, so it is to be a higher priority to fix them!
Please see the message on pp


Nicolas (kwizart)