[MPlayer-dev-eng] Last call for pre8

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:01:12PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> 
> This is my last attempt at releasing pre8 before Linuxtag.
> 
> Changes from previous report:
> 
> * new release critical bugs:
> - b-frames + lavc in mencoder are reported to be broken

This definitely needs to be fixed.

> * other stuff (from the old pre8 thread):
> - the utf8 stuff: solved, delayed or critical?
> - vf_ass: commit or wait?
> - the win32 gui? solved or delayed? iirc the author said to wait for pre9

I say delay all these.

> * Open tasks (help needed):
> - check and complete changelog, including ffmpeg part (else release as
> is), or tell me that it's up to date
> - write a nice news entry (else I'll happily provide a nasty one)
> - security patch for pre7 (and maybe an advisor?) use the gentoo
> patches? forget about it? what about cvs?

The help messages need to be reviewed, after the printf patches there
are many many new ones.  I'll try to get to this over the weekend.

Diego