[CFT] mplayer / mencoder port update

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:24:01 +0100
Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at googlemail.com> 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?
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 

Woops.  Let me modify this to note that musepack can be turned off in vlc.

It could be that I changed some options when I installed the new mplayer,
so my complaint may be invalid, but I'm not sure.  All I can say for sure
is that I did have both vlc and mplayer installed, and vlc was using musepack.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn