Bug#576590: mplayer - Please remove unusable video outputs

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 23:15:33 (CEST), Bastian Blank wrote:

> Package: mplayer
> Version: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> Please remove unusable video outputs from the shipped mplayer binaries:
> | xmga    Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid)
> | mga     Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)
> | tdfxfb  3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5
> | 3dfx    3dfx (/dev/3dfx)
> All of them are replaced by Xv in the meantime.
>
> Maybe it would be also okay to remove the following:
> | fbdev   Framebuffer Device
> | fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
> | dfbmga  DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
> They can be replaced by directfb.

what problem does removing these (addmitely obscure) video output
modules solve?

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4