On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 at gmail.com> wrote: > Jason Garrett-Glaser pisze: > >>>> Moreso, if we wait long enough, the distros will eventually be forced >>>> to stop packaging ancient versions of mplayer. If we release now, >>>> we'll have to prolong the cycle by another 2-3 years yet again. >>> No, they will see that mplayer does no longer publish new releases, >>> consider the project to be death and port over to another player or backend. > >> By that logic no distro would include ffmpeg, since ffmpeg doesn't >> publish new releases, so clearly the project must be dead. > >> Except... no. > > > But that it seems to user. At Ubuntu from 04.2008 it's ffmpeg CVS from > 03.2007 so... almost as dead. > In fact, developers of Ubuntu force Gstreamer as a main decoder. No, that's just Ubuntu. They still package the years-old yasm 0.5, for example, which is so old it won't even compile x264 correctly. This is despite the fact that more recent stable releases have existed for years. I don't think releasing a new stable version of anything would increase the odds that Ubuntu would update much of anything. Dark Shikari
