bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos

[swedebugia]

On July 17, 2018 10:25:45 PM GMT+02:00, Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:
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>I tried it on .mp4 files and on a .mov file. Compiling it with
>ffmpeg-3.4
>instead of ffmpeg-4 solves the problem. Now I was told that anyway I
>had
>better switch to mpv.
>
>So I see two possible courses of action:
>- Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to
>keep also
>  this older ffmpeg package around.
>- Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
>  definition to indicate this).
>
>What do you think?

I suggest we drop it.  Mpv can to my knowledge do all MPlayer does anyway. 

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