[MPlayer-users] When will there be a new release?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Manuel Reimer
<Manuel.Spam at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> Moreso, if we wait long enough, the distros will eventually be forced
>> to stop packaging ancient versions of mplayer.  If we release now,
>> we'll have to prolong the cycle by another 2-3 years yet again.
>
> No, they will see that mplayer does no longer publish new releases,
> consider the project to be death and port over to another player or backend.

By that logic no distro would include ffmpeg, since ffmpeg doesn't
publish new releases, so clearly the project must be dead.

Except... no.

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