Bug#680595: mplayer: New upstream version 1.1

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 09:27:42 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> tags 680595 help
> stop
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Andreas Metzler
> <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>> Package: mplayer
>> Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> 2012-06-10, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1 released
>>
>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-announce/2012-June/000069.html
>
> Note, this version of mplayer will probably require some non-trivial
> work to make it compile against Debian's system libavcodec and
> friends, as for this release upstream has focused on FFmpeg and did
> not consider compilation against Libav.
>
> I do not have the time right now to work on these issues, so I'm
> tagging this bug with 'help'.


Some help did arrive from our gentoo friends:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-video/mplayer/files/

In their SVN, there are patches that allow compilation against libav9,
which we currently have in experimental.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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