Heads up. Problems ahead for mplayer.

2009-12-20 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, This is just a heads up email. I discussed this with brad and I know this is not trivial. The newest mplayer snapshot will refuse to accept our old x264 library. Upon attempting to update x264, I am told that our binutils version is too old: Found GNU assembler 2.15 Minimum version is

Re: Heads up. Problems ahead for mplayer.

2009-12-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:21:29PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, This is just a heads up email. I discussed this with brad and I know this is not trivial. The newest mplayer snapshot will refuse to accept our old x264 library. Upon attempting to update x264, I am told that our binutils

Re: Heads up. Problems ahead for mplayer.

2009-12-20 Thread Brad
On Sunday 20 December 2009 13:50:02 Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:21:29PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, This is just a heads up email. I discussed this with brad and I know this is not trivial. The newest mplayer snapshot will refuse to accept our old x264 library.

Re: Heads up. Problems ahead for mplayer.

2009-12-20 Thread Edd Barrett
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Brad b...@comstyle.com wrote: Even if --disable-asm is an option with x264 it cannot be updated at the moment. Sorry, I thought you meant binutils can not be updated. What stops x264 being updated? As I had said to him on icb he will have to use a snapshot of

Re: Heads up. Problems ahead for mplayer.

2009-12-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009/12/20 23:59, Edd Barrett wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Brad b...@comstyle.com wrote: Even if --disable-asm is an option with x264 it cannot be updated at the moment. Sorry, I thought you meant binutils can not be updated. What stops x264 being updated? It's part of a