Video Player change proposel

[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset]

2012/8/16 Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de>:
> Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2012, 16:24:28 schrieb 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.
>
> I think the problem to push newer versions of mplayer2 and gnome-mplayer to
> the Lubuntu PPA is that it needs a maintainer or someone that just does it. :P
>
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What I'm saying is that, can't we tell <I don't know who> that the
version shipped in the repos is buggish, and that it must be
updated???

I'm not talking about PPAs here, I'm just saying normal upgrades to
fix the system...
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