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

[Manfred Hollstein]

Hi Bjørn,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026, 19:08:54 +0200, Bjørn Lie wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Arch have patches to allow it to build with ffmpeg-7/8, see link
> 
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mplayer

Thanks, that sounds much saner than what I have done earlier. I'll give
it a try tomorrow.

> /Bjørn

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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