On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git",
before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown
reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt
patch, mplayer-uau adds more patches.
Are you sure about this characterisation?
I follow the mplayer mailing lists daily, only to try and clarify this
subject, but it doesn't seem so obvious to me. Mostly it's old
history, of course, so perhaps you were paying more attention at the
time.
AIUI Uoti maintains that there's only one real contributor to the
"official" mplayer, and that all useful improvements and patches are
tracked by his (Uoti's) git version, which is also better in some
other respects. The fork stems from the fact that his version and the
SVN diverged due to an implementation disagreement between him and the
one other remaining contributing mplayer dev with SVN access.
Whilst I've heard Uoti referred to as a troll, I have no idea whether
this is fair or not. It seems to me like there is an objection to him
referring to his version as "mplayer-git" rather than "my fork", but
if he is correct in his assertion that "official mplayer" is now
maintained only by one guy (Reimar?), then I think that it's actually
pretty reasonable to call them both equally different mplayer
"versions". How is "official" mplayer better if it's actually no
better supported than Uoti's version?
I have heard more than one report of significant performance
improvements using Uoti's git version and he seems helpful and
responsive to bug reports on the -users mailing list.
Of course the whole situation is a mess, with mencoder now unsupported
and no facility to dump to / muxing MP4s.
Stroller.
