-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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? - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSrxnTAAoJEASpNY00KDJrN7AP/3KnwPeFKX4A9V46Uh/Q62/0 /kioS749j9/e+oYoxGnPHpFVY97ePimEiU+hdDQ3df1ti+LEdX2oZOsv1t57HrU5 Ho5w2EiwpRohQ4vpMVqW9B6gQke2qar/tF7BfrnTQytYfZoJDxgNkbelQBoTZEmU 4QlfV0ibUaLBNQfY0SwjSumL+ItnjiqaHaAsfi7JWd3Bs/FxAolB/Ljrt87LHDnK 152+GzF3/CZNyR+PKWVzkUA2jfCYn+u/U2uVTLT/LIrqhM6DSUeZOtW1HsJwG4iG lGCO5CUB+dy2VGQqkSbPUjywIXVtonrTReuhTlX4e1EQkoXU2lr2SRnMu/eHy5DN qI+0iCDqt1gXSwcXwRxC211yHnb+t3zPRHTM89NktJXDVrGtT4IvZKIUbPqnneU1 P7u9Sxg35uip3yjybm0Igx7rQQDyAXzvF1IzAPLGORCP0Z2eyxw0dtfGa/htbWz5 xyM5cektdWnweQUawJoYEALRRzUphaAhp9szIa6JlRnyHcKineoQ5A01hw53QXuw 6uuhc/mnT3tFM/XTHXR9esYd9nnWC9jhoWdtOUM9mGlWV7Aullhhr98hM4OWCjUj aepFkTrD4rQ52S648tXkBsktW/DYTilFwGAlkSVr4gMKMsoosEnpyTZwELufpFH/ QYdLS/CBbgXZfbli/BA0 =55BE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52af19d3.6050...@fastmail.fm
