Video Player change proposel

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/16/2012 02:49 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote:
> 2012/8/16 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson at cox.net>:
>> On 08/16/2012 02:14 AM, leszek.lesner at web.de wrote:
>>>
>>> Generally speaking mplayer2 is superior to mplayer. But in the case
>>> of the the current builds in the Ubuntu repo the mplayer2 package is
>>> very buggy. So its a temporary issue which won't go away in this
>>> cycle as upgrading it is as far as I know forbidden.
>>
>>
>> There's always the PPA route.
>>
>
> As we depend on those apps as our core apps, can't we push updates
> that will fix those issues?
> We're part of the Ubuntu family or not?
>
> I'm just asking because there are a lot of users that just want to use
> their system and find bugs everywhere (for example myself when I tried
> first 12.04 stable)... if an update could solve those ugly bugs
> (mplayer2, gnome-mplayer, abiword) it would be SO nice.
>
> Can't this be done? It would be a lifesaver for newcomers and it would
> be wellcome for everyone using those apps!!
>

The gnome3 ppa is almost mandatory for stock ubuntu users, and it 
regularly pushes versions updates.  Likewise the ed10vi86/video ppa 
which has the latest vlc.

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