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

[bart.vandeenen at gmail.com]

On Sunday 12 October 2008 17:03:22 Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > How about the Windows version?
>
> There is _not a single_ Windows developer left in the MPlayer team. I
> sometimes boot into Windows out of pity with those who are stuck with
> it, but that is not enough to fix the problems that have accumulated.
> http://www.videolan.org/ obviously have the same problem.
>
> Which in conclusion means:
> > It is not clear what versions of mingw, msys,
> > gcc, mplayer source, patch files and required libraries (many binary) are
> > needed to build a release quality mplayer binary.
>
> Neither do we. AFAIK the last rc2 was from one of the people who do the
> "unofficial" build, just without the custom patches.
> My own Windows builds currently consistently crash with vorbis on Windows,
> though there is a patch on -dev-eng I wanted to test since I think it might
> help.
Thanks for the clear answer. I had pretty much come to the same conclusion. Me 
personally, I couldn't care less about Windows, but the company I work at 
still has a lot of Windows using customers. I'm responsible for some video 
stuff, and thought that mplayer could provide a good crossplatform binary for 
embedding within Java. We don't have any Windows C programmers otherwise we 
would have volunteered the effort for getting the mplayer windows build up-to-
date.
Our current solution will be to use the Windows Media Player active-x control 
from Java+Windows, and mplayer from Java+Linux.
I'm also glad I can now stop working with this damn Windows computer, and go 
back to my Kubuntu box :-)

Bart