[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] all of FFmpeg as svn:external

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:41:51AM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:07:32 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:56:12AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 02:30:58AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:39:36AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > > I have been working on changing the build system to use all of FFmpeg
> >> > > as a single svn:external instead of multiple svn:externals for each
> >> > > library that we use.
> >> > > 
> >> > > This avoids duplicating much of the FFmpeg build system and indeed the
> >> > > diffstat is quite attractive:
> >> Particularly since that second step in its current form without any documentation
> >> will require anyone who used those options to spend hours to figure out
> >> what the corresponding FFmpeg option is.
> >> There is also the much larger issue that by using FFmpeg configure anyone
> >> not specifying any options will lose support of mp3lame, vorbis, openjpeg,
> >> x264, ..., that really is not user-friendly at all.
> >
> >Only those that we use exclusively through FFmpeg like openjpeg.  For
> >the others I'm passing the appropriate options to FFmpeg's configure.
> 
> so ./configure --x264libdir=/x264/ becomes ./configure && cd ffmpeg
> && ./configure --enable-libx264 ?

MPlayer's configure invokes FFmpeg's configure with my patch and passes
--enable-libx264 to it.

Diego