[Buildroot] Status of "mplayer" in buildroot

[Markus Heidelberg]

Hans-Christian Egtvedt, 20.01.2009:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:59:47 +0100
> Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2) mplayer do not have any recent "versions".
> >    Instead you are encouraged to checkout the latest svn.
> > 
> 
> It is just plain bad to depend on a random checkout. Perhaps we can use
> debians/ubuntus "release"?
> 
> MPlayer v1.0rc2 + mplayer_1.0~rc2-0ubuntu17.diff.gz ?
> 
> When I look more into it, the Ubuntu diff is just adding pulse audio
> support and various version and other doc changes.

Or a Gentoo package:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288.tar.bz2

There we don't have to fear distribution specific stuff and exactly know
the version we use due to the svn revision in the filename.

Markus