Re: Bug#613806: ITP: mplayer2 -- next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
Thanks for jumping on this ITP, I wanted to point you to this ITP
yesteday but got distracted by other stuff. Seems you've noticed it
anyway, which is cool! :-)
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:08:25 (CET), Uoti Urpala wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart <at> tauware.de> writes:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Reinhard Tartler <siretart <at> tauware.de>
>>
>> * Package name : mplayer2
>> Version : 2.0beta1
>> Upstream Author : Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala <at> pp1.inet.fi>
>> * URL : http://www.mplayer2.org/
>> * License : GPL
>> Programming Lang: C
>> Description : next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
>>
>> MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV,
>> QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
>> supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It
>> can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
>>
>> Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output
>> drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB,
>
>> The text above is copied from the existing mplayer package. It is
>
> The long description really needs a rewrite.
Absolutely. Actually, this is also true for the package description of
the existing 'mplayer' package.
>> basically a well-known and quite popular fork of mplayer. TBH, I'm a bit
>> unsure what to do with it. From the first look, it seems that mplayer2
>> is better suited for being included in a distro release, but not (yet)
>> in its current form. Currently, it includes a copy of ffmpeg-mt, a
>
> I'm not sure if you've misunderstood something or just phrased things
> inaccurately, but I think this description is at least misleading for
> people who aren't already familiar with the setup.
Thanks for your elaboration on the issue. For practical packaging issue,
I think it makes most sense to just use the copy of ffmpeg-mt that is
included in the mplayer2 tarball. This is what i've referred to with
saying 'includes a copy of ffmpeg-mt'.
> I think having a package using FFmpeg-mt available is good, as it's a
> substantial performance improvement over anything available in Debian today.
> However as above this isn't directly forced by MPlayer2 itself.
Which has been requested several times now. Relevant reports include:
http://bugs.debian.org/575600
http://launchpad.net/bugs/611851
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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