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laochailan

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Registered: 2010-01-08

Posts: 17

Suggestion: building extra/mplayer from git

Currently the sources of the official Arch mplayer builds seem to be taken from the svn repo, but as some of you may know mplayer development has split up because of some disagreements so there are two repos at the moment: The old svn-repo the original author sticks to and a git fork developed by Uoti.

I tried out the git build and released a modification of the original PKGBUILD as "mplayer-git" on AUR and experience has shown that the git version runs considerably better. With the [extra] version I had issues with weird frame skips or otherwise ill behavior that are gone now. Another great advantage is that mplayer-git uses the system versions of ffmpeg and libass instead of bringing its own copys. Therefore it can use newer features of the libs and the package size is reduced dramatically (2,7MB instead of 8,2MB).

Any opinions?

Edit: Oh thank you. Link fixed.

Last edited by laochailan (2010-07-09 13:06:47)

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: Suggestion: building extra/mplayer from git

Correct repo link: http://repo.or.cz/w/mplayer.git

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Suggestion: building extra/mplayer from git

mplayer is an official package, so post the above in a feature request on the bug tracker.