On 16 Feb 2022 23:25:00 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote: > Source: mplayer > Version: 2:1.4+ds1-3 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid bookworm> > I think we should not include mplayer in bookworm. > mpv is a worthy replacement for mplayer.
I just found this report whilst doing a buster > bookworm full-upgrade. I have both mplayer and mencoder installed and both were listed for removal.I require mencoder specifically to handle some old legacy format conversion where I found ffmpeg fails despite many attempts to work around the issues with various command-line options.
Specifically RealMedia multi-stream formats originally recorded in the 1999-2004 time-frame.