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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] MPlayer 1.0pre3 doesn't compile
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:28:23 +0100

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:36:21PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:09, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > It can play DVDs natively without ffmpeg, everything else is done using
> > the win32 codec dlls, which are slow as hell compared to the ffmpeg
> > native decoders (try watching a quicktime trailer on an athlon 600 using
> > the dlls, impossible).
> > MPlayer still can do all that without ffmpeg installed as it includes
> > its own (older) version of ffmpeg and probably uses that.
>
> I believe that is the problem, the patch applies even if you don't have
> ffmpeg* installed so MPlayer can't find it's internal headers
> You know how I try to stay out of your section though :)
> Hamish

That was the problem. Now i disable libavcodec (external and internal)
if ffmpeg* isn't installed. This _will_ cripple MPlayer installs on
systems without ffmpeg*, but imho if an app can use shared libs for
something it should use them, that's what shared libs are about after
all.

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Arwed v. Merkatz
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