drigloi
June 7th, 2005, 10:27 AM
I tried alternatives (mozplugger, totem plugin, vlc plugin) but found that for now these are no match to mplayer and mplayerplug-in which can handle the most video formats.
Backports has the old 2.70, which was released more than 1.5 years ago and since then there were two major releases. The current version is 2.80 which supports stop/start of the stream, fullscreen playback and a nice look.
I contacted the package maintainer but he replied that the 2.70 package was simply copied from the Debian Sarge/Sid without correcting even the maintainer data in it and he cannot help with Ubuntu issues.
I think this package would greatly enhance the multimedia/browsing feel of Ubuntu.
I also tried to dpkg -i the Sid's new 2.80 package but strangely I cannot see the control buttons of the plugin - so something must be done to Ubuntuize this app.
Backports has the old 2.70, which was released more than 1.5 years ago and since then there were two major releases. The current version is 2.80 which supports stop/start of the stream, fullscreen playback and a nice look.
I contacted the package maintainer but he replied that the 2.70 package was simply copied from the Debian Sarge/Sid without correcting even the maintainer data in it and he cannot help with Ubuntu issues.
I think this package would greatly enhance the multimedia/browsing feel of Ubuntu.
I also tried to dpkg -i the Sid's new 2.80 package but strangely I cannot see the control buttons of the plugin - so something must be done to Ubuntuize this app.