I'm attempting to approach a problem that cropped up a little while ago when I tried to play an HD video in Linux. The problem was that the decoder didn't utilize all the CPUs in my machine, or poorly decoded the video. Regardless, the solution was to use a Windows based decoder called CoreAVC wrapped in a DirectShowServer. The only different is that I am no longer using Xine as I couldn't get it to compile correctly.
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My question comes up when I have the ability to create a debian package. I have done this on my current installation, however, I get a constant message saying that my Mplayer is out of date.I don't know the first thing about debian packages so I was wondering if I would be able to create the Mplayer package in the same fashion that TheeMan does, or atleast in a similar fashion. I have noticed that in the version that I have created the Subtitles support the fonts of the video itself, where as the previous version did not. Once I learn a little more about debian packages, I could possible distribute it to the Ultimate Edition community making it easier to support HD playback. What do you guys think?