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 -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762sh35ff....@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
