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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mplayer-0.99.11_14
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 22:33, Michael D.
Stackhouse<mstackhouse@samsa.com> wrote:
> I think we'll investigate VLC as an alternative. =A0Not too comfortable
> building around a solution that's not being maintained as it should be.

mplayer is definitely continuously developed, it's not an abandoned
project! They just do not follow a release scheme at the moment.
If the svn version does the job you want it to do, it's definitely worth a =
try.
I personally like mplayer as it is still lighter than VLC.

Riggs