>>>> Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt >>>> patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? >>> >>> "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. >> >> Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer >> with ffmpeg-mt support. > > There is no latest "mplayer with ffmpeg-mt" support. There is mplayer, > ffmpeg and ffmpeg-mt. To get what most people refer to as "mplayer-mt", you > have to replace the bundled ffmeg that is included in mplayer with > ffmpeg-mt. > > >> Is there a way to either do that >> specifically, or to follow the latest mplayer version in the >> multimedia overlay? The situation is a little tricky since there is a >> version in portage that is newer than the newest version in the >> multimedia overlay. > > That's because the developer who updates the multimedia overlay didn't yet > put the ebuild there. The latest version I released (which is based on the > latest available ffmpeg-mt sources) is "1.0_rc4_p20100626": > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673.html
Got it, thanks. Hopefully that shows up in the multimedia overlay soon. It's interesting that the mplayer-uau ebuild includes a threads USE flag in addition to the ffmpeg-mt one. - Grant
