2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <[email protected]>: > W dniu 26.02.2012 11:18, Nicolas Chauvet pisze: >> 2012/2/26 Julian Sikorski <[email protected]>: >>> 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? >> >> I have no problem with moving to mplayer2 unless it's tight to >> switching to libav over ffmpeg. But I don't think it would be >> related. >> Is there any drawback to moving to mplayer2 ? > > Well, I am not sure really. The last release was almost a year ago, but > the git has been relatively active: > > http://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2/ > > mplayer has a much bigger developer base, though. >> >> The current situation cannot hold any longer given that even for minor >> ffmpeg update, I need to rebuild mplayer anyway. So given that's not >> supported upstream I cannot see any reason to continue with this >> situation. >> >> Thx for working on this. >> >> Nicolas (kwizart) >> > I'd say the best solution would be to build mplayer using internal > ffmpeg, and then offer mplayer2 as an alternative. I have a working spec > for mplayer w/ internal ffmpeg, it only does not build on rawhide due to > gcc-4.7 shenaningans.
No, one need to make a decision, those are not parallel installable IIRC. Nicolas (kwizart).
