On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:08:19AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > My opinion on this matter was requested, so I'm documenting it here. > gst-ffmpeg suffers from a very similar problem, since it has an > embedded fork of ffmpeg.
Just to clarify: MPlayer does not contain an embedded fork of FFmpeg, the FFmpeg libraries used in MPlayer are unmodified. > My understanding is that upstream needs more than ffmpeg's offer in > the first place, and also rewrote the build completely to be based > on autotools (they told me the patch to switch to the autotools was > rejected multiple times by ffmpeg's upstream). A patch was never sent, just the idea suggested. With one notable exception the FFmpeg developers hate autotools and FFmpeg will never replace the current build system by autotools. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
