On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:53:09PM -0500, Jonathan Isom wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Matthias Reichl <h...@horus.com> wrote: > > I guess it would be best if freevo wouldn't require this option > > until it's in an official mplayer release. Using mplayer SVN > > snapshots can really be a PITA... > > Only problem with waiting for a release is currently it is recommended > by the developer that users and distributions use svn of mplayer. 1.0rc2 > is rather old by the way. They have no plans to make new "releases".
Well, there were plans for a 1.0rc3 release, but development seems to have stalled... 1.0rc2 might be rather old, but at least it's working and several distributions still ship this version (with security patches, of course). I've been compiling MPlayer source releases from 0.50 (or so) up to 1.0rc2 on my box, but then switched to using the binary packages from debian-multimedia.org for a very simple reason: last year I tried using MPlayer SVN source a few times and always ended up with a (partly) non-working mplayer. Before sending out bug reports I searched the MPlayer mailinglists just to find out that my bugs were known issues. Finding a working SVN version can take quite some time, and being an MPlayer user (not developer), I really want to avoid these troubles. IOW: no, I don't like their development model, it might be OK for distributors, but definitely not for users. Back to the original issue: Freevo 1.8.3 didn't use the "outdir" option (in util/videothumb.py) and worked fine. It would be really nice if freevo 1.8.4 wouldn't need it, too, as other people might experience the same issues as me. so long, Hias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
