On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:55:12 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was able to build mplayer 1.1 linking to external ffmpeg 0.11.1 by using > the > configure switch --disable-ffmpeg_a. I suggest we add this switch to the > default instructions in the book. And make FFmpeg a required dep? What about people who haven't installed FFmpeg? > My mplayer binary is now 4.6 MB, compared to 14 MB with statically linked > ffmpeg. It's good to use shared libraries if they're available but with in the past I've found Mplayer to be quite crashy (particularly on i686) when linked to a system installed FFmpeg > Hopefully the mplayer developers will continue to make proper releases. That would be nice. I get the feeling that they follow the FFmpeg people and FFmpeg have started doing regular releases. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
