From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 27 10:23:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47391106566B; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5042E8FC15; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id NAA03925; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:23:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4A6D801F.8020607@icyb.net.ua> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:23:27 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090630) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "b. f." References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mplayer-0.99.11_14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:23:31 -0000 on 25/07/2009 08:20 b. f. said the following: > Thomas Zander wrote: >> Stackhouse 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