From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 05:20:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B90106564A for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f208.google.com (mail-fx0-f208.google.com [209.85.220.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F5D8FC22 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so76699fxm.43 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:20:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NJf70ihO+viFSkRff8/stigFLu0dTwhPFOWnn3PZR+o=; b=iK0wYx3qKWD0k0EeXaszzfmQkW2IBbtC6AuubWDPfRi2S0YbadDi+8F7LWDtWCQ2D1 JanG6RPQtrrupiPZPHYksaTMMK+uOG4CSUZnIGntkNFZq8EhIMqdyaQMu3wXn6yxqAFA BgJKkG8e/TlSUc4QEvzmKaPxoAQj4yuWX7IzM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=wYkaJ6utJenCRVNsZvcGB7i0z36w2hwGDZ8F0ZE9YXAPArwT5HKfYhfptt+SqxuvCC hGxxd1feTwHzwdGxE9a02LLkNiorOUSDanTsdxbXsMfBXfxxpAgABIseR8guAtzWY/6p /A1qLgQorKA/mazX9ag+7oV5fUkD77/1tDqlE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.179.19 with SMTP id b19mr459978hbg.2.1248499203081; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:20:03 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mplayer-0.99.11_14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:20:05 -0000 Thomas Zander wrote: >Stackhouse wrote: >> I think we'll investigate VLC as an alternative. =A0Not 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. b.