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

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

Jason Garrett-Glaser pisze:

>>> 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.


But that it seems to user. At Ubuntu from 04.2008 it's ffmpeg CVS from 
03.2007 so... almost as dead.
In fact, developers of Ubuntu force Gstreamer as a main decoder.

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