[mythtv] SDL/mythffplay obsolete?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 20 December 2012 10:41, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was browsing through the build log recently and noticed that
> configure had SDL set to "no" even though I have the build requirement
> set. Using --enable-sdl worked easily enough and caused mythffplay to
> be built but in reviewing the rpm packaging spec on github it seems
> mythffplay was removed.
>
> Do I need SDL at all on Linux?

ffplay isn't build by default by myth build system
It will be built if you enable --enable-sdl as you've found out.

I'm not aware of much program using the SDL, so if you have no
intention of building ffplay, I doubt there's much point installing
the SDL development packaged