Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.
> On 5 Feb 2023, at 14:51, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
>
> Quoting Reimar Döffinger (2023-02-05 12:05:07)
>>>> `test.ogv` can be downloaded from
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1857407/+attachment/5314961/+files/test.ogv
>>>
>>> MPlayer is no longer developed and largely replaced by mpv.
>>
>> It's fair enough to point people to alternatives,
>> but I don't think it's ok or fair to blame upstream
>> for issues that have been long fixed (this one in
>> April last year).
>> r38362 specifically.
>
> Is your complaint that in 2020 I failed to predict that upstream would
> issue a bugfix 2 years later?!?
This was not meant as a personal attack on anyone,
I do not know all the details of this issue.
But from what I know, while it was reported to Ubuntu
and Debian, this issue was never reported by anyone
to MPlayer.
In addition, it only occurred due to specific compile
options used by these distros (--enable-debug).
To my knowledge the issue was fixed very shortly after someone from MPlayer (me) became aware of it.
Maybe it's of little practical relevance for Debian users, but for upstream developers it's not so much fun for the project to be declared dead because the communication between distro and upstream broke down.
And bug fixes is one of the few things that MPlayer still does get even though you are right that there is very minimal development.
Hope that explains my point and sounds reasonable.
Thanks,
Reimar
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