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

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Krzysztof Duchnowski
<amidk75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

No, that's just Ubuntu.  They still package the years-old yasm 0.5,
for example, which is so old it won't even compile x264 correctly.
This is despite the fact that more recent stable releases have existed
for years.  I don't think releasing a new stable version of anything
would increase the odds that Ubuntu would update much of anything.

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