[oe] mplayer2 : focus deficiency?

[Belal, Awais]

Hi,

The version of mplayer2 available in meta-oe is almost 2.5 years old while there seems to be active development around it. Is there a reason OE never moved to a newer version?

The mplayer team officially releases tarballs from its website https://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html while they also provide svn access through svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk. I believe it would be a good idea to move to one of these sources (I would prefer tar downloads myself) and use a newer more robust (probably) version of mplayer2.

I will be working on a new recipe to cater this if there are no objections but I would really like to have some feedback before I do so.

BR,
Awais