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

[Krzysztof Duchnowski]

Attila Kinali pisze:

>>>> 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.
>>> And Gstreamer uses ffmpeg in the back, without telling you
>>> (they link staticaly against ffmpeg like MPlayer does)

>> No. It's special "gstreamer-ffmpeg" package from "unsupported" repo that 
>> user must install on it's own.

> So, you are telling us that gstreamer has written a new codec
> library for every codec out there in just a few years, while
> developing a DShow drop in replacement? I highly doubt that.

> 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?
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.

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