Bug#728772: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> (Bug#732159: Removed package(s) from unstable)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System dixit:
>
>>This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>>which was filed against the src:mplayer package:
>>
>>#728772: mplayer: FTBFS: The architecture of your CPU (UNKNOWN) is not supported
>>
>>It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>.
> […]
>>as the package mplayer has just been removed from the Debian archive
> […]
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> You cannot s̲e̲r̲i̲o̲u̲s̲l̲y̲ remove mplayer from the archive?
> You must be kidding. MPlayer2 was born dead and VLC
> just doesn’t work most of the time and has a horrible UI.

I'm very, very sorry about this myself. The whole affair is pretty
ironic, considering the amount of energy I've personally invested to
get mplayer (and ffmpeg, FWIW into debian/main).

Unfortunately, even after repeated calls for help in #732159, nobody
volunteered to help out with the package.

In the mean time, may I suggest having a look at mpv?
-- 
regards,
    Reinhard