Bug#803844: mplayer: FTBFS with FFmpeg 2.9

[Roberto Togni]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 20:31:01 +0100 Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
> 
> On 08.01.2016 03:02, Miguel A. Colón Vélez wrote:
> > I was waiting for a clear idea of when FFmpeg was going to release to
> > decide if I should patch 1.2 or just take an upstream snapshot. Most
> > of the new bugs reports are fixed upstream so I will probably use an
> > upstream snapshot.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if all relevant fixes were included in the 1.2.1
> release? Packaging snapshots is always a bit problematic as one never
> knows when a good time for packaging the next snapshot is and upstream
> doesn't really know which version of their code is used.
> 
> > Thanks for the reminder.
> 
> You're welcome and thanks for the quick reply. :)
> 
Hi,
 we just released MPlayer 1.3, which is compatible with FFmpeg 3.0.x

If possible, please upgrade to the new version instead of patching 1.2.1

Ciao,
 Roberto