[packman] Status of package MPlayer - is it dead already?

[Bjørn Lie]

to., juli 30 2026 at kl. 17.58 +0200 +02:00:00 skrev Manfred Hollstein 
<manfred.h at gmx.net> følgende:
> Hi there,
> 
> MPlayer cannot be built on Tumbleweed since quite some time. One 
> reason
> is that it still needs ffmpeg-6 which in turn needs libSvtAv1Enc3 
> which
> no longer exists in TW.
> 
> I took some time today and re-created the old SVT-AV1-3.0.1 based
> package as a new package A_tw-SVT-AV1 in Essentials; ffmpeg-6 then
> needed to restrict the build time requirement for libSvtAv1Enc to 
> ignore
> versions >= 4. This resulted in a new build of MPlayer an hour ago.
> 
> But, to be honest, MPlayer is a dead horse, isn't it? It hasn't seen a
> new release since over 4 years. Shouldn't we disable it for Tumbleweed
> at least? As long as it still builds for Leap, it can remain enabled 
> for
> them, but the stunts I did with the libSvtAv1Enc3 and ffmpeg-6 fixes 
> are
> overkill, aren't they?
> 
> What do others think? Should the stuff kept around and MPlayer gets
> deactivated after the next build failure, or should I disable it right
> away on Tumbleweed?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> l8er
> manfred
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Arch have patches to allow it to build with ffmpeg-7/8, see link

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mplayer


/Bjørn