[MPlayer-dev-eng] Distro's packaging half-broken MPlayer again

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:47:23AM +0000, Compn wrote:
> there has been some chat on irc about this...
> 
> ubuntu packages missing mp3lib support
> and not removing the audiocodec mp3 from codecs.conf to quiet this error.
> 
> ffmp3 is still included however, which seems like it goes against
> ubuntu rules. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> 
> [20:48] <hope13> MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> [20:49] <hope13> Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
> 
> there is a bugreport on the ubuntu tracker for it:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/62639

It seems they disabled mp3lib because of some sample that ffmp3 could
play, while mp3lib failed:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/52729

and the changelog entry (abridged):

mplayer (2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu4) edgy; urgency=low
  * debian/rules:
    + disable internal mp3lib. This will enable mad or ffmpeg as
      replacement (Ubuntu: #52729)
 -- Sebastian Dröge <slomo at ubuntu.com>  Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:33:53 +0200

Diego