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outdated even before the day of its release.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. "

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Package Update Request: mplayer
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