[arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Markus Heuser <mheuser at mi.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Today i wanted to rip one of my dvds with h264enc from AUR [1]. I updated to
> the latest available version (8.6.6) but couldn't get it working together with
> the mencoder from the repos.
>
> I'm not asking for support for an AUR package, but here is what I found out
> and I guess this could be important for other ripping/x264 encoding software
> as well:
>
> The extra/x264 is severely outdated, in fact it lacks support for some
> -x264encopts that can be used by mencoder and therefore breaks encoding. This
> seems not to be very common by now but sooner or later encoding tools will use
> these options and we should provide compatible packages :)
>
> So, if one rebuilds x264 either with the $pkgver bumped to the latest
> available snapshot [2] or uses the AUR x264-git Package [3], MPlayer needs a
> rebuild too.
>
> Using the official MPlayer PKGBUILD results in a build error with a possible
> solution posted on the forums [4]. I know that the OP is using an SVN version
> of mplayer but I couldn't get the new x264 working together with the mplayer
> PKGBUILD from the repos (another build error complaining about libavcodec), so
> upgrading to the latest & greatest (tm) version seems to be the next logical
> step to me.
>
> I see that this "solution" involves using ffmpeg and mplayer svn versions which
> is obviously not suitable for the repos. But I'd be very thankful to see a
> rebuild of x264 and mplayer/ffmpeg as soon as the changes in ffmpeg and mplayer
> are in the stable branches and you guys can afford the time to do so :)
>
> Greetings,
> Markus
>
> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12121
> [2] ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-
> snapshot-20081228-2245.tar.bz2
> [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15774
> [4] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61858
>

Have you tried mplayer-svn? Mplayer will probably not have a stable
release ever anyway.

Greg