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

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:57:47 +0200
Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ffmpeg is _the_codec_library_ every OSS player project uses it.
> > There is no way around it, unless you stick to MPEG1/2 only.
> 
> ditto - did you forgot XINE?

No. xinelib uses ffmpeg internally, just like mplayer does.
Or do you think that src/libffmpeg in the xinelib source
might be a mere coincidence of name?

> But in Ubuntu "gstreamer-ffmpeg" is additional package unsupported by 
> Canonical. And it's not installed by default. That's a fact. Whatever 
> gstreamer uses another set of codecs and it's internal or external is 
> not the point.

Yes, and the other set is ffmpeg with a different wrapper lib around
it, nothing else.

When i said that ffmpeg is _the_codec_library_ then i mean it
that way. Heck, even a lot of comercial players use it, if not
most of them.

				Attila Kinali
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