[needs-packaging] current mplayer
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GetDeb Software Portal |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
mplayer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
in my opinion smplayer with mplayer backend is the best media player available under Linux today. getting the latest smplayer version is no problem - but with mplayer it is. All PPAs i know of are outdated. currently i have compiled it from SVN myself, which is not an easy task - especially for beginners.
sure, the mplayer guys are not making this easy because they do not "release" often - but the SVN version always have major improvements which no cine-maniac can miss.
it would be great if getdeb.net could provide recent builds of mplayer, with all the bells and whistles. they don't need to be updated daily, but what about once a month?
thanks!
in parallel i will post to the mplayer-users list and ask them...
I don't like publishing svn revisions.
Upstream should know best when a version is considered stable.