[MPlayer-users] cvs snapshot download tar.bz2 ??

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/29/05, Heitzso <heitzso at growthmodels.com> wrote:
> Trying to download the cvs snapshot tar.bz2 file from
> the official mplayer download page and many of the links
> are returning a 'not found, does not exist' message.
>
> Also, when I did find a link that worked and unpacked
> the MPlayer-current.tar.gz directory it became
> MPlayer-20050806 ... ??
>
> Is there a better route to go to grab cvs (using cvs
> directly)?  Or is 20050806 a moderately stable CVS
> version?  Or has the server transition just kept everyone
> busy working on that and no one has had time to
> manually update the cvs current download tarball?
>
> I'm looking into CVS version because for my project we hit
> one snag too many with mpeg2 files (sync and seek)
> while equivalent mp4s play great (excellent sync and
> seek) BUT in 1.0pre7 when trying to use the gui
> slider bar to seek around in an mp4 file the slider
> bar button doesn't want to budge.  Clicking on the
> slider bar actually works great in that the video seeks
> to a place that seems reasonable given where you clicked,
> but the button on the slider control stays glued to the
> left.  I was trying to grab latest-greatest-cvs to see if
> that was fixed.
>
> I greatly appreciate [g]mplayer.  Not complaining, just
> sorting out how best to work with the minor glitches.

In order to get the latest CVS, you really should do a CVS checkout.
The procedure is on the "download" page of the website.

Cheers,

Guillaume

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