Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > wwp wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:10:23 +0100 Leon <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I have filed a bug[1] in livna to build mplayer pre8 for fc5. It turns >>> out ffmpeg (ffplay to be accurate) needs SDL 1.2.10 to compile. I'm >>> wondering is it possible to release an update for SDL. >>> >>> >>> Footnotes: [1] https://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060 >> >> Still no 1.2.10 for FC5? Any idea if/when it is planned? >> >> > > Hmm. I'm using SDL 1.2.9-5.2.1 and MPlayer 1.0-0.43.pre8.lvn5 (ffmpeg > version 0.4.9-0.22.20060407.lvn5) and everything seems to work fine. Are > you sure that 1.2.10 is required? (Perhaps Livna has backported a > compile fix or something to that effect, as well? I'll have to check.) > > -- > Peter Gordon (codergeek42) > GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: > DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 >From the comment in bug 1060: ,---- | it means mplayer statically links the copy of ffmpeg that ships inside the | mplayer tarball into itself. The package in the devel repository uses the | shared system ffmpeg. `---- ,---- | Due to using the private copy of ffmpeg, mplayer itself is much *bigger* than in | the previous release though. Ditto mencoder. To compare the effect, look at | the sizes of 1.0-0.41.pre8.lvn5 in the FC5 repo and the roughly corresponding | 1.0-0.42.pre8.lvn6 in the devel repo (the devel one uses external ffmpeg)... `---- bye -- Leon
