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Looking through the changes that mpv introduces, it looks like they've brought back encoding. The primary motivation for yet-another-mplayer-fork, is that they are explicitly removing complex, obsolete code in an effort to encourage fresh blood to join the developers; given that what they are removing includes 'teletext' support, this is probably not a bad thing.

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I am sure that there will be an outcry among teletext users how the devs dared to remove their favourite feature!

Let’s see when/what Debian releases…

In central Europe teletext is still supported by all TVs and broadcasting companies. A lot of older people read the latest news via teletext. The browsing effect is similar to HN, it shows just the news headlines and the interface is text only - no fancy graphics or ads. With a single button press you see a short summary. That way you can read the news of the day in less than 5min - something that is hard to achieve for Joe Doe with the internet.

I am probably the only mplayer+teletext user in Australia. I'm trying to strip out the subtitles from a DVB-T stream and do an analysis of the words used on a commercial vs a public channel.

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