[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] all of FFmpeg as svn:external

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 08:20:56PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 04:55:51PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:39:36AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Here is the rest of the patch in its current form.  The diffstat is
> > as sexy as ever:
> > 
> >  Makefile  |   30 -
> >  configure | 1071 ++------------------------------------------------------------
> >  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1053 deletions(-)
> > 
> > One issue we have right now is that the libmp3lame check can work for
> > MPlayer, but fail for FFmpeg because the latter requires LAME 3.98.
> > Is it reasonable to require 3.98 for MPlayer as well?
> 
> Yes.

Done.

> > Comments welcome, note that I would like to proceed soon.
> 
> I am not ok with removing most of the codec checks.
> Unless there's no reason nobody should want it, MPlayer should
> detect those libraries and enable FFmpeg support for them.
> Of course changing FFmpeg configure to allow for "greedy" library
> detection is a fine solution as well.

Not so easy now that the FFmpeg build system has gone unmaintained...

> In general for (almost) all removed options we should document
> what to use instead.
> E.g. I would have no idea what someone who was using --enable-neon
> before would have to use now...

./configure --ffmpeg-options=--enable-neon

Diego