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

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Andrew Savchenko wrote:

> What is the problem with the ass support in mplayer? It works fine
> for me with the current SVN HEAD. However, afaik, there is a
> pending patch for -ass support in mencoder; perhaps, this issue
> should be overviewed.

Ah there was some effort to make lavf the default demuxer for .mkv, but 
that didn't play nice with ass. I lost track of whether lavf is now the 
default demuxer for mkv or not, and whether the issues with ass and 
lavf have been fixed yet or not. I suspect libmpdemux is back as 
default.