[MPlayer-users] How to start playing files why they are still being recorded? How to stream?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:32:35AM +0100, wm4 wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > the failed attempt to steal FFmpeg) on purpose. To the 
> > best of my knowledge, it is true that compilation of 
> > MPlayer with avconv is broken on purpose, but this was 
> > not done in MPlayer but in avconv which regularly breaks 
> > API / ABI (and be it just to break MPlayer compilation).
> 
> Sorry, but I very much doubt that they broke the libavcodec etc. APIs
> specifically to break mplayer compilation. It's more like mplayer can't
> be built properly even with ffmpeg releases, because it relies on
> ffmpeg git master,

It almost always can be built against either the release before or after.
That is even true for the 1.1 release.
It could of course be managed and documented better.

> uses internal ffmpeg symbols, etc...

Only if you ask it to/allow it. Without it you lose *spp and mcdeint
filters. Otherwise, no. And the only "etc." I can think of is that
you will need the libavutil/86/cpu.h header because I don't want to
duplicate it.