Comment 2 for bug 333011

At least someone else has packaged it in Debian experimental. Maybe we'll see it trickle down from Debian some day:

Accepted mpeg2dec 0.5.1-2 (source i386)
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2008-December/002342.html

Did the ABI change? I'm hoping this new library will fix my MPEG2 problems I'm having with VLC. Even a recompile wouldn't be too bad if >0.5.1 is in main.

It'd be nice to see experimental packages become available for Ubuntu too.