On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Thomas Zander wrote: > Hi Doug, Wes, list, > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > B) I don't think "daily" is a reasonable target, but neither is "every > > 3 years." > > This is correct. While it's true that I was hoping for the mplayer > developers to change their minds and subscribe to a decent release > engineering process, it seems it is not going to happen anytime soon. > I was planning to switch the mplayer port to a svn snapshot some time > next week (new year's resolution!) and continue with updated snapshot > ports in the range of ~3 months or so. That is, if there is no > objection from committers's perspective.
I'll send it separately to those who have asked. Upgrading the mplayer and mencoder ports may not be as simple as a drop in. They require a newer version of x264, which there is already a pr for updating. I'm not certain about all of the dependencies, but there will be a shared library version to chase, and I believe that some ports may fail to detect it or even not compile. There is also the issue of the age of gcc in base. I use gcc44 from ports and enable the assembler in x264. It might just be my imagination, but I'm fairly sure my encodes get quite a few more fps on average. _______________________________________________ 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"
