[MPlayer-users] best combination of mplayer,ffmpeg,x264

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 09 June 2008 at 11:11, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a contributor to SlackBuilds.org, which is a repository of build-scripts 
> for making Slackware-packages.
> We are currently discussing for the most appropriate moment to update ffmpeg 
> and x264. We rely on the releases of mplayer and I think, there might be 
> problems if we just update ffmpeg/x264 and leave mplayer behind. So I was 
> thinking of updating ffmpeg and x264 everytime a new mplayer version gets 
> released.
> However, I'm not quite sure my assumption that there would be problems when 
> using an older mplayer with recent x264/ffmpeg snapshots is correct. As you 
> know probably more about such situations than me I thought of asking for your 
> opinion on this.

All three should usually be updated at the same time to snapshots from the
same day. See the recent compilation problems due to FFmpeg requiring
the current x264 snapshot for example.

Regards,
R.

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