Comment 33 for bug 85751

Yeuclid wrote:
> As a very new Ubuntu user, I get the impression from all this that
> things are not as rosy as one might be led to believe. I thought the
> concept was collaboration and support. What I have seen with this saga
> is evidence of passing the buck and the sad "ignore it and it might go
> away" syndrome.

It's more likely to be a case of "I've got no idea about it, but I'm a
volunteer so it's not a requirement. Maybe somebody else knows more."
syndrome. You're free to locate the fix yourself, and then it can be
fixed for everybody.

Everybody who works on mplayer within Ubuntu is a volunteer, and nobody
knows the mplayer codebase well. It's enormous, and very messy.

> Why can't it just be fixed, or is the Mencoder support team just going
> to pretend that the problem doesn't exist?

We need to have a fix in order for it to be fixed. We don't have one at
the moment.