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Re: Bug#613806: ITP: mplayer2 -- next generation movie player for Unix-like systems



[Uoti Urpala]
> >   Description     : next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
> > 
> >    MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV,
> >    QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
> >    supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It
> >    can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
> > 
> >    Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output
> >    drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB,
> 
> > The text above is copied from the existing mplayer package. It is
> 
> The long description really needs a rewrite.

Maybe ... but mentioning all those file formats _is_ pretty useful for
'apt-cache search' purposes.  I know we're all supposed to use tags for
such things now, but I find 'apt-cache search' a lot easier than
figuring out what tag I should be looking for.
-- 
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/


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