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"hard" frame duplication for mencoder. this finally makes it possible to generate valid mpeg output from avi's that have duplicate frames in them, or when using inverse telecine filters. to use it, put the "harddup" filter at the end of your filter chain.

how to make an mplayer release
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preparations:
- ask the DOCS maintainers to commit their final changes, check if
  all docs is uptodate etc
- verify manpage, remove obsolete options, mention new ones
- ask translation maintainers to update their help_mp*.h file
- update teh ChangeLog file (according to cvs log), ask other developers
  to verify their parts etc. ask Diego to spellcheck it.
- consult at -dev-eng about unstable codes which should be disabled for release

create the release tree:
- cvs checkout the mplayer src tree
- if releasing from 'main', checkout libavcodec from ffmpeg cvs
- remove teh CVS subdirs: 
    find 0_90 -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;
- remove the .cvsignore files:
    find 0_90 -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} \;
- remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files
- replace version.sh with this (change version number too...):
============
#!/bin/sh
echo "#define VERSION \"0.90rc5-$1 \"" >version.h
============

release the tree:
    cd ..
    mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5
    tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5
    bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar

test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run)

copy to ftp:
    cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/

move the older (pre)release(s) (except the last one before the current one)
to ../old-stuff/ dir

somehow get Gabu to write a news entry for the release, and update the
source file of dload.html and commit it. test it, it's sometimes buggy
(broken links etc).

done.