on 25/07/2009 08:20 b. f. said the following: > Thomas Zander<thomas.e.zander at googlemail.com> wrote: >> Stackhouse<mstackhouse at samsa.com> wrote: > >>> I think we'll investigate VLC as an alternative. Not too comfortable >>> building around a solution that's not being maintained as it should be. > >> mplayer is definitely continuously developed, it's not an abandoned >> project! They just do not follow a release scheme at the moment. > > He may have been referring to the FreeBSD port here, not upstream. ;) > >> If the svn version does the job you want it to do, it's definitely worth a >> try. >> I personally like mplayer as it is still lighter than VLC. > > I was going to submit a snapshot update some months ago to Riggs, but > I got bogged down (sorry, Riggs!) with sound problems on my computer, > and other demands on my time. By the time that I returned to it, > upstream developers who were using Linux had introduced several > additional hurdles by using SSE3 and several C99 math functions that > were missing from our gcc 4.2 base compiler toolchain and our aging > and largely unmaintained math library. Since then, after complaints > from users on the mplayer mailing list who were attempting to build > snapshots on FreeBSD, they resolved some but not all of these problems > by just disabling some of the newer code, which is ... not altogether > satisfactory. Also, there was, the last time I checked, some kind of > problem with our base compiler on amd64. Suggested workarounds for > some of these problems were submitted by "Tomek" on March 2 to the > freebsd-multimedia mailing list (under messages entitled "x264 patch" > and "ffmpeg patch", but there are still some problems to resolve. So > this will probably require a little time and effort to update. If no > one else does it, I'll try to get to it in the next few weeks. It > definitely ought to be done.
Just curious, can't newer GCC(s) from ports be used to build those mplayer snapshots? We have: /usr/ports/lang/gcc42 <- 4.2.5 /usr/ports/lang/gcc43 <- 4.3.4 /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 <- 4.4.1 /usr/ports/lang/gcc45 <- 4.5.0 -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
