Comment 16 for bug 539315

I have to say that I don't quite understand what happened to the mplayer package now. It is clearly stated on the homepage (http://mplayerhq.hu) that the just released rc3 is intended to be used with the ffmpeg 0.5 branch. However the ffmepg package in Maverick is from the ffmpeg 0.6 branch. Even more important is the fact that the developers of mplayer strongly recommend to use a current SVN snapshot (rc3 is over a year old). Why isn't this done in Maverick?

Quote: "1.0rc3 was intended to be rolled out over a year ago, but got delayed again and again. Since it is designed to be compatible with the FFmpeg 0.5 branch, it will be useful to distros and other users still tracking said branch. Thus we are now publishing it even though it is outdated even before the day of its release. For general usage current Subversion snapshots should be a better fit, as many bug fixes and new features are available. "