[MPlayer-users] Problems building from the repository (Alexander Strasser)

[George R Goffe]

Hi Alexander,

Please accept my apology for missing your response to my post about "avcodec_close".

>Hi George!
>
>On 2025-03-31 14:49 +0000, George R Goffe wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> This problem has been the bane of my existence... sort of.
>>
>> Here's what I'm seeing. Can anyone take a look at this and point me in the direction of a fix please? Th
is attempt was with just a ./configure for configuration. The problem happens with 2 separate gcc packages.
Ones is from their repository... Still no luck.
>>
>> Best regards and thanks ahead of time,
>>
>> George...
>>
>> cc -MMD -MP -Wundef -Wall -Wno-switch -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Werror=format-
security -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-pointer-sign -Wdeclaration-a
fter-statement -std=c11 -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600
-D_ISOC99_SOURCE -I. -Iffmpeg -O4 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectoriz
e -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -fpie -D
PIC -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1 -I/usr/include/samba-4.0 -D_REENTRANT -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/lsd/Lin
ux/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -DWITH_GZFILEOP -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.
0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sysprof-6 -pthread -DZLIB_CONST -I/usr/include/opus -I/usr/i
nclude/bs2b -I/usr/lsd/Linux/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DWITH_GZFILEOP -c -o libvo/vo_png.o libvo/vo_p
ng.c
>> libvo/vo_png.c: In function 'config':
>> libvo/vo_png.c:129:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'avcodec_close'; did you mean 'avcodec_lic
ense'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>> ? 129 |???????? avcodec_close(avctx);
>> ????? |???????? ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ????? |???????? avcodec_license
>> libvo/vo_png.c: In function 'draw_image':
>> libvo/vo_png.c:176:5: warning: 'av_init_packet' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> ? 176 |???? av_init_packet(&pkt);
>> ????? |???? ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> In file included from ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.h:44,
>> ???????????????? from libvo/vo_png.c:43:
>> ffmpeg/libavcodec/packet.h:666:6: note: declared here
>> ? 666 | void av_init_packet(AVPacket *pkt);
>> ????? |????? ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>The problem is that MPlayers sources don't compile after the recent
>major bump of FFmpeg. Thus building of MPlayer with FFmpeg git master
>fails.
>
>To avoid build failure you can either compile against latest FFmpeg 7.1
>release or against a ffmpeg master version before the bump which
>happened IIRC last week on Friday.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience :(
>
>Best regards,
>  Alexander

Since my post about this problem I have continued checking MPlayer status.
Again, sorry for missing your post. 

The problem still exists as of this date. I have questions about this. Is anyone working this problem? Should I contact the FFmpeg people?

As a note. I did find a version of MPlayer that does build at "https://github.com/rpmfusion/mplayer.git". It seems to work as I have had no problems. I WANT to use the svn version of MPlayer in an effort to further the cause as it were.

Thank you SO MUCH for responding.

Best regards,

George...