On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:19:37 +0100 A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> wrote: > >* Why the "--disable-mencoder" in debian/rules ? > > > my original thought was : > since LAME is not in Debian , then 'mencoder' will not be very useful > > but then some people pointed out that there are many interesting things > that can > be done with mencoder that do not need LAME > > so my next packaging will have 'mencoder' ok, thanks you > >* Why the "--disable-aa" ? > > Ok caca is better than aa but it's not enabled either. > > > I received some e-mail from upstream authors suggesting that AA was a > nice trick > but it may be removed from my packaging > > anyway it seems that '-vo sdl:aa ' will work as well ok, but can you take a look at libcaca support please ? > >* You build libavcodec and libavformat but that seems to me a waste of time. > > FFmpeg is already in main, why not only link mplayer with > > libavcodec.a (libavcodec-dev) and libavformat.a (libavformat-dev) ? > > > > > > > choice of upstream : AFAICR a monolithic 'mplayer' improves performances Paul Hampson was faster than me for this point. (but finally, i don't know if it is a good idea because ffmpeg was configured with '--disable-mmx') > answer of 1 DD: on the other hand, without any kind of mplayer, Debian > is at a loss [agree] Regards, Sebastien NOEL
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