[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] set is_streamed correctly in lavf URLContext

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 08:28 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:07:44AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > dont you care a little bit about compatibility? with such design you could
> > > drop shared lib libav* support from mplayer

> This has nothing to do with shared or not, we have always made very
> clear that we only support versions of FFmpeg from exactly the same time
> as MPlayer, even though that has some problems for regression testing.

We only support compiling with those in-tree, and can require shared
libraries to be new enough (though that should have an explicit version
number check rather than just telling the user "it'll break somehow if
it's older"). But requiring an *EXACTLY EQUAL* version of shared
libraries just doesn't make sense. Compiling and installing MPlayer does
not compile and install shared FFmpeg libraries. If you always require
updating and installing FFmpeg just before compiling MPlayer, and always
expect an existing MPlayer to break if you update FFmpeg (for another
program) that makes shared libraries almost completely impractical.