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@@ -162,17 +162,24 @@ In general, changes to the mpv-build repository itself are relatively safe, keeping branches in sub-repositories might be ok, and making local, uncommitted changes in sub-repositories will break. -Forcing master versions for some parts -====================================== +Selecting release vs. master versions +===================================== + +By default, mpv, ffmpeg and libass use the git master versions. These are +bleeding edge, but should usually work fine. To get a stable (slightly stale) +version, you can use release versions. Note that at least for mpv, releases +are not actually maintained - releases are for Linux distributions, which are +expected to maintain them and to backport bug fixes (which they usually fail +to do). The following command can be used to delete all local changes, and to checkout -the current master version for mpv: +the latest release version of mpv: - ./use-mpv-master + ./use-mpv-release -And run ``./rebuild`` or similar. Use this to switch back to the latest release: +And run ``./rebuild`` or similar. Use this to switch back to git master: - ./use-mpv-release + ./use-mpv-master Likewise, you can use ``./use-ffmpeg-master`` and ``./use-ffmpeg-release`` to switch between git master and the latest FFmpeg release. |