Re: RFC: replacing mplayer with mplayer2?

We use mencoder in the ROSA Media Player, so it is very important to us to 
save original mplayer. 

13.01.2012, в 17:14, Per Øyvind Karlsen написал(а):

> 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