On 8/10/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig Jackson wrote these words on 08/10/07 13:36 CST: > > > I've always wondered if this affects the codecs at all. As far as I > > can tell, the only benefit to a system-installed FFMpeg is having the > > ability to have thumbnail previews in Gnome, KDE, etc. > > I've never build MPlayer with a system-installed FFmpeg before. It > is "recommended" by the MPlayer devs to use the internal static version > built into MPlayer. But the devs probably just say that because they > know the version of FFmpeg that ships in a MPlayer tarball works > properly.
The reason is more that FFmpeg has a notoriously unstable API (hence why they never release). Read this blog post from one of the maintainers of gstreamer-ffmpeg (towards the end of the entry). http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2007/02/15/gst-phonon-code-now-public/ They recently took out the ability to use the system ffmpeg because it just caused them too many issues. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
