Re: RFC: replacing mplayer with mplayer2?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> As some might've noticed, I've done some work on mplayer & ffmpeg
> packages lately,
> and in the process I've also packaged the mplayer2 fork as well.
>
> mplayer2 works perfectly as a drop-in replacement for mplayer and has
> several benefits
> (see http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html), some of them are:
> * uses ffmpeg library through it's API only, thus removing the need
> for an internal ffmpeg
> * as it's able to use the latest ffmpeg, it also adds support for the
> multithreading it provides
> * much cleaner and nicer codebase, easier to maintain and doing
> development on
> * support for gettext translation
>
> It also has a couple of drawbacks as well:
> * mencoder has been dropped
> * internal gui has also been dropped
>
> As the internal gui isn't that great with several other better
> alternatives and mencoder isn't that
> great either (ffmpeg is a better alternative anyways, mencoder could
> also still be packaged),
> I'd prefer just replacing mplayer entirely rather than having both
> projects maintained in the distro.
>
> So before I push mplayer2 to main/release, does anyone have any
> objections to this?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Per Øyvind
>


Just please don't obsolete mencoder and leave the several packages still
needing it hanging.