Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mplayer
Im currently on the Intrepid repo, but I do believe that along with
Intrepid, Hardy also has an old revision of mplayer.
The idea that sticking to mplayer's RC2 in the repos is flawed because
the mplayer development does not in practice stick to standard release
management principles. Mplayer does not issue regular official releases.
SVN builds are typically stable and certainly since RC2, there is many
significant bugs that have been fixed. Ubuntu users are getting a poor
impression of mplayer from bugs that have long since been fixed.
Importantly, mplayer is also a depedency in other video packages that
again are having bugs because mplayer (and mencoder) has an old version.
Im not sure how it has been done in the past but enabling realtime cpu
detection in the compile would be great.
I recommend these should be backported wherever possible as I see no
risk to doing so.
** Affects: mplayer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: upgrade
** Tags added: upgrade
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Please Upgrade Mplayer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243453
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