[CFT] mplayer / mencoder port update

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Friday 12 November 2010 11:24:01 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 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?

x264 works again in mencoder, but x264-devel conflicts with x264 (which is 
also required by vlc and other ports). Upgrade will be much smoother if 
multimedia/x264 is upgraded.

> 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.

mplayer no longer depends on libmpcdec (AFAIK it uses the builtin decoder). 
libmpcdec is deprecated anyway