Bug#763826: ITP: mplayer -- movie player for Unix-like systems
Control: owner -1 rharwood@club.cc.cmu.edu
Control: retitle -1 ITP: mplayer -- movie player for Unix-like systems
* Package name : mplayer
Version : 1.1.1
Upstream Author : Árpád Gereöffy <arpi@thot.banki.hu>,
mplayer-dev-eng@mplayerhq.hu
* URL : https://www.mplayerhq.hu/
* License : GPLv2
Programming Lang: C
Description : movie player for Unix-like systems
As per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763826 since ffmpeg
is present in unstable, I feel that it would be good to bring back mplayer.
To emphasize, asking for "mplayer" currently installs mplayer2, which is a
dead project (website gone and everything). mplayer however is not a dead
project, and continues to commit code. In addition, it has features that are
not present in mpv (due to their removal in mplayer2), such as the fbdev
driver. I am a heavy of mplayer, including this output.
I plan to adapt the previous mplayer packaging, rather than starting from
scratch, which will reduce the workload. Paul Tagliamonte
<paultag@debian.org> has agreed to sponsor this work.
------ Previous package description ------
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, but
also SDL (plus all its drivers) and some low level card-specific drivers (for
Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64 and Permedia3). Most of them support software
or hardware scaling, therefore allowing fullscreen display. MPlayer is also
able to use some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and
DXR3/Hollywood+.
Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the
README.Debian and copyright files for details.
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