[MPlayer-users] Mplayer howto

[RC]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:38:19 +0100
Stefan Sassenberg <stefan.sassenberg at gmx.de> wrote:

> I'd like to add that I'm not at all lucky with the CVS version because
> it behaves different than the release. 

No, it's just that newer features are introduced.  You can use CVS, or
you can wait until the next release, but you'll have to confront the
changes sooner or later.  

> The instructions are surely incomplete and this list didn't help me to
> make mplayer run as intended.  Read the whole (short) story at 
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-February/058511.html.

I don't see the problem.  So -vo vesa changed between pre6 and pre7, and
you needed to install an external library.  That's not a problem with
CVS, but with CHANGES to MPlayer in general.  If you had waited until
the next released, you would have run into the same problem, just later.