[MPlayer-dev-eng] .deb of 0.90rc3 release

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:16:54PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > >         libmad.so.0 => not found
> > Very untested, thus you shouldn't include it. But if you do, do not
> > make it default unless we do
> 
> disagree!!
> libmad is the most stable mpeg audio decoder now.
> both ffmp3 and mp3lib has problems (sig11) with some files.

Agree.

> > >         libartsc.so.0 => /opt/kde/lib/libartsc.so.0 (0x40c35000)
> > Why would non-KDE users need to install KDE libs??
> 
> agree!
> and sound daemons (artsd, esd, etc) are very bad for video playback, since
> they don't provide stable sync feedback to the player.

This dep probably comes through Debian's SDL, which is (stupidly)
linked to arts and esd junk.

Rich