Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?
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On 12/16/2013 09:51 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:38:58PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
>> So, the alternatives then are either removing xbmc, mplayer and all
>> packages with dependencies on these or switching back to ffmpeg?
>
> All of these packages are generally compatible with libav.
Earlier in the thread, Reimar Doffinger (who last I knew was one of the
MPlayer developers, and I think one of the FFmpeg ones as well) said
that he would be happy to help, to a limited degree, with making MPlayer
work with libav. This seems to imply that currently it does not.
> The problem with mplayer is that it hasn't seen an upload since two
> years. It would be equally incompatible with current ffmpeg as it is
> incompatible with current libav.
Isn't that more of a packaging issue than anything else?
According to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz earlier in the thread, MPlayer
has had an upstream release this past May. If the Debian package hasn't
been updated with that release, that's not upstream's fault, nor a
problem with MPlayer itself.
I can testify that current MPlayer works with current FFmpeg, because I
build and install both of them locally from the VCS.
I'm guessing that the lack of updates to the MPlayer package(s) is
exactly because of the FFmpeg/libav split, and the resulting lack of
FFmpeg packages in Debian for the updated MPlayer to depend on.
> If people really need mencoder, the mplayer source package could be
> modified so that it only builds mencoder.
As I understand matters, MEncoder is no longer officially maintained
upstream, and the MPlayer developers recommend using FFmpeg instead.
People still use MEncoder anyway, because there are things it can do
that FFmpeg can't do yet, but there aren't very many such things
anymore.
In any case, wouldn't this be more work than updating the MPlayer
package(s) to use the current upstream release?
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