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

[Manfred Hollstein]

Moin,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026, 19:51:59 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> 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.

yep, that amongst some other small changes did the trick:

  <https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/6565>

MPlayer links against ffmpeg-8 libraries now.

> > /Bjørn

Thanks again Bjørn for your suggestion!

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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