[CFT] mplayer / mencoder port update

Gary Jennejohn gljennjohn at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 12 10:52:26 UTC 2010


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:13:14 +0100
Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have prepared a new tarball dealing with the issues reported so far.
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.rrr.de/~riggs/mplayer/m20101111.tar.bz2
> 
> Most notable changes:
> - includes Ariff's volume-per-channel patch
> - uses x264-devel for mencoder
> - does not link to external mpg123
> 
> Please continue testing using this tarball. I'd like for the new port
> to hit the ports tree soon!
> 
> @Martin: Do you have plans to update x264 to the level of -devel, or
> should I keep mencoder using -devel?
> 

This has, in my opinion, a major problem - it requires libmpcdec-1.2.6
which conflicts with musepack-2009.03.01_1 which is required by vlc.

That means that, with this new version. a user can't have both mplayer
and vlc installed together :(  IMHO not acceptable.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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