[gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>  [...]
>> And I suppose there's no way to change that?  I was trying to create an
>> ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-core CPUs) to speed up
>> playback of full HD video.  This is quite popular in the Windows world (most
>> Windows builds of mplayer support multi-core systems by using ffmpeg-mt).
>>   There are also debs and RPMs for this floating around.  But nothing for
>> Gentoo so I'm trying to roll my own, but I'm not sure how to do it.  Bundled
>> libs were always a pain in the bum...
>
> check out this site:
>
> http://nikita.melnichenko.name/blog.php?id=5&topic=gentoo-ebuild-mplayer-mt&lang=en
>
> He's got an ebuild for building mplayer with ffmpeg-mt (one of the
> comments indicates some minor changes may be needed for recent
> versions).
>
> Mplayer's website also mentions SVN snapshots of mplayer with the mt
> code as well. The URL given does not resolve for me, though:
> http://just.mooo.com/mplayer-svn-mt.tar.bz2

I rolled my own and it works very nicely :)

If anyone is interested, I submitted a version-bump bug with all needed 
files:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282154