Comment 6 for bug 243453

William Grant:

If you are the maintainer, that is fair enough.

However, if this report has, in your view, no merit whatsoever, please don't keep the uninformed users hanging by reverting this to "New", giving any false hopes about mplayer in Ubuntu.

In other words, if you are not going to upgrade mplayer, please mark this report as "Invalid", so the users clearly know what's the deal, and know to rely on other options.