Comment 5 for bug 243453

Sorry, but thats complete nonsense William and I'm flawed that you honestly consider that to be the case.

The development model of ffmpeg is that they do not "do" releases. What ffmpeg does is to continually update the code and refer any bug reports to "use the latest svn and see if it's still a problem". That is the standard response.

There has been *massive* changes in ffmpeg since Ubuntu last caught up with ffmpeg's SVN. Some of the highlights include:

* Fixing tracking theora / ogg movies so that the Ubuntu Experience ogg file supplied with mplayer has correct seeking
* Many, many improvements to the AVC / H.264 decoder which is seeing more and more prevelance as a common video standard
* Addition of new demuxers and decoders for greater format support

When it comes to mplayer, they in turn have problems doing releases due to their reliance on ffmpeg in mplayer. The last release candidate that mplayer "released" is ancient. Again, like ffmpeg, mplayer take the standard approach of forcing users to update to the latest svn.

There is also *many* fixes in mplayer svn that arent in the Ubuntu build.

Mplayer is the best video solution on Linux because:

* it supports the most formats
* it offers the best performance
* it is robust to video errors
* it is heavily supported in mplayer and in turn ffmpeg by developers around the world