mplayer forked. mplayer2
Just read about this.
http://www.mplayer2.org/ Don't know if there is any interest in this during rc cycle |
Is there any reason why they have forked off a new version of an actively maintained and well supported program? Why not just submit these changes and fixes upstream?
Reading their Changelog, it looks like they removed more useful functionality than what they added... |
I don't think there will ever be any interest in mplayer2.
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Maybe it's the RIAA/MPAA version.
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http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html
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mplayer's worst feature (its frustratingly terrible handling of DVD menus) isn't improved on (in fact they exclude libdvdnav entirely) and the rest seems like it would be better pushed upstream. I don't think there will be any desire for this to be included with Slackware any time soon...
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They removed mencoder entirely ... hmm. I don't think I'll be using this. I know it's not perfect, but sometimes it's necessary.
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just FYI, ffmpeg has been forked too.
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http://libav.org/about.html Summary: They forked due to major squabble among devs and with the project leader, who refused to accept numerous code changes. |
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Episode 02.mkv 241,426,677 I don't depreciate the work of the mencoder devs of course. I have used it more than i have used ls :) and i thank them for giving us such a great program |
Well, for DVD menus, and video in general, I've been happy with gnome-mplayer. It uses mplayer as its back end and is a much better GUI (for GTK) than gmplayer. Along with that, gecko-mediaplayer plugin kicks ass (mplayer-plugin sucks). I don't see what mplayer expects to add other than some trivial tweaks. I use Nvidia vdpau and haven't noticed their complaints (ie on a 40inch LCD 1080p screen).
As for libav, kind of sounds like another power play like XFREE86 v. X.Org and OpenOffice v. LibreOffice. Hopefully we get a better project or they will just kiss, make up and merge. As an end user, I am not so much interested in the prima donna squabbles among devs, just in solid, efficient code. And by solid I mean old school solid: 6502/8080/Z80 with 64KB RAM. Damn kids! Get off my lawn...er...CODE! |
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