[LAU] state of multimedia

[James Cameron]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:26:07AM +0200, hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> In my experience mplayer and the likes is compiled without jack support
> on almost any distro, I guess mainly because jack is a pretty
> specialised application. Most users of mplayer won't need it, most
> packagers won't know it. It's as simple as that.

I agree.  For what it is worth, mplayer on my Debian system is linked to
libjack (says ldd), and the package page lists libjack0 as a dependency.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mplayer

So kudos to the Debian team for doing it.

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