status update mplayer

[Reinhard Tartler]

Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> wrote:
>> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>>  - I haven't tested if the binary codecs downloader ist still
>>>    functional. TBH, I'm not sure if it is even useful or necessary with
>>>    modern mplayer/ffmpeg. In that case we'd better remove it, no?
>>
>> I also doubt they are still usefull. Which formats do still need
>> w32codecs to decode and are not yet covered by codecs in ffmpeg?
>
> From my collection, gstreamer can't play:
>
> VoxWare Metasound audio codec in ASF files
> DigiTrakker .MDL Modules (needs an xmp.sf.net plugin)

okay. I've just verified that the current package's
'/usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh' script successfully
downloads some 'essential codec' tarball and installs the contents in
/usr/lib/codecs/. I believe that is the intended behavior.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4