It turns out that the long wait for MPlayer 1.0 was in vain – the project went straight to a 1.1 release. “We gave up on 1.0 After a long pause, we decided that it might be a good idea to make a new release. While we had our fun with the naming scheme with lots of ‘pre’ and ‘rc’ it seemed time to move on and with everyone incrementing major versions between weekly and monthly we hope to be forgiven for jumping ahead to 1.1.” There’s a lot of new stuff in this audio and video player release, much of which comes from the recent FFmpeg 0.11 release.
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