[MPlayer-users] Two general questions about mplayer

[The Wanderer]

Malte Skoruppa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using mplayer for quite a few years now and I find it to be
> THE best movie player out there! :-)

Likewise.

> I've been wondering lately about how the development is going on...
> are there some plans about when the 1.0 final release shall be
> released?

Vague and nebulous ones.

> Is mplayer still being developed actively?

Yes.

> I'm just asking because new releases seem to be quite rare,
> overall... no criticism intended ;-)

That's partly from lack of manpower and partly a result of a
philosophical decision. For MPlayer, unlike many other projects, it is
actively expected - and, indeed, required for the submission of bug
reports - that ordinary users will be running the latest development
version, compiled from the publicly accessible SVN tree.

> Also, the only thing I find mplayer to be lacking is dvd menu
> support, as I find it somewhat annoying to have to "guess" the right
> track number you want to watch, especially on dvds which have 30+
> titles. I've googled a bit and many people seem to miss this feature,
> although nobody can tell whether at all or when it might be
> implemented. Do you guys have any insights about this?

I actually don't know. There has been quite a bit of progress on DVDs
since the last release, with the addition (and/or expansion?) of support
for dvdnav, but I do not remember to what extent if any it has had to do
with menus.

> Are there possibly inofficial patches for mplayer somewhere out there
> in the internet to add dvd menu support to mplayer, for the time
> being (I googled, and I didn't find any; but you never know...).

Not as far as I know.

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