Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:39:48 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912302335470.98330@ibyngvyr> In-Reply-To: <20091229143152.l2g246ti808w8cw0@0x20.net> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912130841040.19087@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> <4B38F3BB.3020303@fstaals.net> <20091229143152.l2g246ti808w8cw0@0x20.net>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Lars Engels wrote: > Quoting Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net>: > > > On 12/28/09 15:47, eculp wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anybody have a port for building mplayer from SVN? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > On a sidenote: I used to build mplayer from svn regularly on my > > previous system. Updating mplayer usually was quite painless. Simply > > 'svn up && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayersvn && gmake && gmake > > install'. In 99% of the cases rebuilding went perfectly; no patches > > required or anything, and I rebuilded mplayer almost weekly. This was > > on a i386 system by the way, on my current amd64 install I run into > > problems trying to compile the current svn snapshots. > > > > I know it is not as nice as simply having a port. But if you realy need > > the svn-releases for some feature XYZ it may be a (temporary) solution. > > > Are there any killer features missing in our old version from ports? ffmpeg, x264 and mplayer/mencoder all have a number of improvements that are not available in official releases. x264 has some significant improvements with the mbtree option and I've seen quite a few bugfixes. There is also a remarkable speed improvement due to assembler, but this requires a recent version of gcc. Mplayer and mencoder have many bugfixes and they also handle blu-ray streams and codecs much better. Ffmpeg is also much improved in svn, especially with mpeg2 transport streams and the HD audio found on blu-ray/hddvd discs.
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