[theophile]

I know the XBMC dvdplayer uses ffmpeg. The ffmpeg devs recently committed a big fix that affects media I wish to play. Can I simply grab the XBMC source from svn, replace the ffmpeg source tree in xbmc/sources/dvdplayer/ffmpeg with the ffmpeg trunk grabbed directly from ffmpeg's SVN, or would XBMC not compile against it?

That was a rather obtuse way of asking how I can incorporate a recent ffmpeg bug fix into XBMC.

Thanks!

[spiff]

well, in general yes. we do have some modifications to ffmpeg but unless they intersect what you want to patch, just grab the diff and apply it.

[Jezz_X]

Also would be nice if you could point out exactly what it is and maybe someone might think its worth permanently updating xbmc too before our next major release

[theophile]

Sure. I posted a feature request thread about it here. I was actually unable to get it to work. I went ahead and copied over the updated h264.c but even after building with the updated file, I still get the old playback errors.

The change to ffmpeg fixed a bug which prevented playback of video streams from MLB.TV. Incorporating this fix into XBMC is the next step toward a working MLB.TV plugin/script for XBMC.