[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg, svn:externals and where to go from here

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mi, Jan 26, 2011 at 19:17:31 (CET), Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:33:59AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 22:32:29 (CET), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> >> This looks no harder than compiling both MPlayer and FFmpeg to me.
>> >
>> > Which is double the effort of just compiling MPlayer.
>> > However that is not counting the worst: either installing FFmpeg
>> > or beating it to be useable without installing.
>> 
>> What's the problem with installing FFmpeg on Windows? Seriously,
>> is there something that can done to make this step easier?
>
> Not Windows-specific really, except that there's not even the
> option of using a system one.
> The issues are
> - additional steps (yet another configure to run, with different
>   options which is particularly annoying for cross-compiling)
> - non-trivial to start a compile of everything so you can go
>   do something else (bigger issue on Linux actually due to
>   make install since by default that needs root)

I feel both could be solved by some scripting, which we could include in
the mplayer sources

> - no reliable make uninstall

only if you insist on installing to /usr/local. I personally prefer to
use --prefix=~/local

> - pkg-config usually does not work, so (IIRC) you manually need to convince
>   MPlayer to find it

Well, non-standard paths require adjustment to various environment
variables like PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH. But setting
environment variables is also no rocket science either, rather a matter
of writing that down properly.

> In general just try to make a list of the steps needed
> if you want a user to test a patch that changes both FFmpeg and MPlayer.

agreed.


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