[MPlayer-dev-eng] Yet another attempt to release rc2

[Nico Sabbi]

Roberto Togni wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>with the pending fix of the dts decoding, one of the major hurdles for
>rc2 release is partially (see the downmix to stereo bug) removed.
>
>What about the others? This is a summary I made based on the old
>discussions:
>
>- --enable-debug is broken
>- vidix linking on ppc
>- mingw and/or cygwin compilation is broken (this report is from
>April, please confirm if it's still true)
>- mencoder a/v sync with -oac lavc is broken
>- dts downmix to stereo (this was with the libdca through ffmpeg,
>since I'm reusing that code probably it's still true and must be fixed).
>
>About features:
>- what's the status of dvdnav?
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feature-wise as it was in rc1

>- should we include a snapshot of our libdvdnav in rc2?
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>

no, users should be educated to do the right thing (svn co ...),
not seconded in their ignorance and laziness.
Rather, dvdread should be updated to 0.9.6 (or 0.9.7), but
Diego had some doubt on this behalf

>Please comment.
>
>Based on experience setting a target date for rc2 is meaningless, for
>reference only I'm thinking about the beginning of August.
>
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better forget it