From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:53:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cb411b9-3a6f-8a52-c6ab-f0d60aa5d181@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9514.1740274441@owl.pooh.corner>
David M. Fellows wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
> Much snipped
>> My next question. Given mplayer is getting old and rotting on the vine
>> so to speak, anyone know if one can get rid of it completely? Right
>> now, Devedeng requires it and Smplayer does to, even tho I have it set
>> to use mpv now. I found a couple other packages but I may can do
>> without them. I'm just wondering how much longer mplayer is going to
>> last before packages that must have mplayer is going to be tree cleaned
>> because they no longer work.
> devedeng depends on vlc or mpv or mplayer. emerge would prefer them in
> that order.
> smplayer depends on mpv or mplayer
>
> Your other packages probably have similar dependencies. You can check their
> ebuilds to see.
>
> This means if you emerge --depclean mplayer
> to make sure it is gone from @world.
> Then emerge smplayer
> which should pull in mpv as a dependency.
> Then emerge devedeng
> which should be happy finding mpv already installed. Unless you have vlc
> also installed in which case it would be happy with that.
>
> Hope this is of use.
> DaveF
>
>
That's a huge help. I figured, because of the name if nothing else,
that Smplayer would always need mplayer even tho it is set to use mpv.
I figured the name would change or something if that changed. For
watching videos on my TV, Smplayer is awesome. For watching on my puter
monitor, mpv does a fine job as well. I do wish mpv had a volume
control for audio tho. One thing I really like about Smplayer, the
ability to add videos to the playlist and not alter what is currently
playing.
I suspect at some point, mplayer is going to have to go bye bye. I
figure Gentoo devs may be the ones keeping it moving right now with
patches and such. At some point, something will break that they have no
interest in fixing, or someone else outside Gentoo. At that point,
funeral music will have to be played, with mpv most likely. ;-)
Oh, the key to getting those videos to play wasn't USE flags, it was the
latest ffmpeg. Once I installed that, the videos started playing
again. Having the USE flags updated is a good thing tho. I should be
up to date with those now.
Thanks to all for the help.
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-23 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-20 18:00 [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build Dale
2025-02-20 18:14 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:23 ` Dale
2025-02-20 18:35 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:38 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 19:06 ` Dale
2025-02-20 21:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 18:59 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 21:42 ` Michael Cook
2025-02-20 22:03 ` Dale
2025-02-20 23:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 0:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-21 8:06 ` Dale
2025-02-21 14:54 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 15:38 ` Dale
2025-02-21 23:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-22 13:35 ` Dale
2025-02-22 22:42 ` Dale
2025-02-23 1:34 ` David M. Fellows
2025-02-23 7:53 ` Dale [this message]
2025-02-23 8:23 ` Michael
2025-02-23 10:21 ` Dale
2025-02-23 12:54 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-23 18:46 ` Michael
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