[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer Encoding Failure

[Jan Knutar]

> After this has been done once, it is alleged that issuing the MPlayer
> CVS-update command will update the libavcodec directory as well - but
> it does not do so for me; if I update my MPlayer source tree, and
> then update my FFmpeg source tree, and compare the datestamps on a
> file which has changed in the libavcodec directory in the latter
> location with the same file in the former location, the FFmpeg
> version is invariably new while the MPlayer version is unchanged
> since the last time I copied the directory across. This is not how
> CVS is supposed to behave, but it's how it works for me.

I don't know where I read it, but I added something or other some time 
ago, to a file in CVS/ in the mplayer cvs checkout dir I have, and it 
started automatically fetching libavcodec as well.

Now in CVS/Entries, I have the following line:

D/libavcodec////

Maybe that helps. *shrug*