[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFmpeg, svn:externals and where to go from here

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:17:31PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:33:59AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 22:32:29 (CET), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > >> This looks no harder than compiling both MPlayer and FFmpeg to me.
> > >
> > > Which is double the effort of just compiling MPlayer.
> > > However that is not counting the worst: either installing FFmpeg
> > > or beating it to be useable without installing.
> > 
> > What's the problem with installing FFmpeg on Windows? Seriously,
> > is there something that can done to make this step easier?
> 
> Not Windows-specific really, except that there's not even the
> option of using a system one.
> The issues are
> - additional steps (yet another configure to run, with different
>   options which is particularly annoying for cross-compiling)

I see nothing that could not be solved by a simple shell script...

> - no reliable make uninstall

If you report bugs I will fix them.

Diego