FS#48658 - [mplayer] bundles FFmpeg when it could be using the separately packaged version

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Argyris (argymeg) - Monday, 21 March 2016, 17:11 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 21:40 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

MPlayer can be built against a system-wide installation of FFmpeg. Its various libraries can be switched off separately, however a catch-all configure option (--enable-system-ffmpeg) seems to be available according to this mailing list thread:
https://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2010-August/065853.html

In addition to reducing bloat, this would prevent critical FFmpeg bugs from having to be attended to twice (such as in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47944).
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 21:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  mplayer 37857-1

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