CFT: mplayer and mencoder updates

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:07:58 +0100
Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thank you all for your comments on the first iteration of the ports.
> A heavily revised version can be found on
> http://www.rrr.de/~riggs/mplayer/m20111230.tar.bz2
> 
> Changes:
> - reduce the number of explicit --enable-<feature> where it seemed
> reasonable, hence deviate less from the intention of the configure
> script
> - remove patching and reinplacing homegrown tweaks whenever possible,
> hence deviate less from the intention of the configure script
> - fix the reported pthread issue
> - always use internal libass
> - adopt patches to support 24 bit OSS output and keep volume during seek
> - use newer gcc and binutils thus enabling significant speed-ups (and
> also, since most mplayer and ffmpeg development is done on newer gcc
> and binutils than we have in the base system, it's slowly getting
> tedious to ensure compatibility with older toolchain)
> 
> Caveats:
> - bluray does not work right now -> keep it/turn it off in OPTIONS for now
> 
> I hope the refactoring (removing mostly) of the tweaks to the
> configure and build environment does not impose noticeable changes for
> most users, but we may encounter difficulties in some configurations I
> couldn't check.
> Please give it a try!
> 
> As always, comments, suggestions and especially patches are more than welcome.
> 

I see that some Makefiles under mplayer explicitly use gcc46.  Is that
really necessary?

I like mplayer but I'm not interested in installing an entire gcc46
tool chain just to get the latest version.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn