Bug#407010: mplayer: multiple segmentation faults

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 06.04.2010 07:45, schrieb Michael Gilbert:
> not likely.  is it because mplayer uses an old/incompatible ffmpeg?
> could you convince them to keep in sync?

It's the other way round. In Debian we follow the stable ffmpeg 
release series (i.e. 0.5x) while mplayer follows the current ffmpeg 
development trunk.

> i had no idea.  what do they disapprove about the package?  i suppose i
> could send a message indicating that some action really needs to be
> taken since this issue does have security relevance.

We never got explicit public feedback from the ftp team, thus I can 
only *guess* it has to do with our enabling of the mencoder package. 
Mencoder is considered "dangerous", because it is... well... able to 
encode into different probably patented video formats using libavcodec 
from ffmpeg. However, the Debian mencoder package is linked against 
the Debian ffmpeg libraries, which have exactly these codecs disabled. 
So mencoder is just as "dangerous" as xine, vlc or ffmpeg itself which 
are already in Debian. Maybe you could try to hint this to the ftp 
team, it seems they don't listen if we tell them ourselves...

  - Fabian


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