On 7 April 2015 at 15:00, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 07:13:16 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> >> Please also note that some packages support only one of the two >> >> implementations. An attempt to install one of those packages may >> >> result in blockers requiring the user changes the global USE=libav >> >> state. The most notable example of such package is >> >> media-video/mplayer. -media-video/mpv may be used as a replacement >> >> for users who prefer libav. +media-video/mpv may be used as a >> >> replacement for users who prefer libav, +even though upstream mpv >> >> developers recommend using ffmpeg. >> > >> > This is off-topic, and strongly biased. >> >> The original statement may give the impression that mpv is to libav >> what mplayer is to ffmpeg. Many users were surprised to find out that >> mpv upstream actually recommends ffmpeg, and that some of mpv's >> features do not work with libav. If we are going to specifically >> recommend mpv, then it is something users need to be aware of. >> >> We could change it to: media-video/mpv works with both ffmpeg and >> libav, though some of its features require ffmpeg. Or something along >> those lines. > > > I'd rather drop entirely that part about mplayer/mpv; I agree this is > something users need to be aware of if we recommend mpv but with ffmpeg > as default the "mplayer hard requires ffmpeg" is no longer an issue. > Otherwise, we might as well note that gst-libav recommends... heh... > libav, and as such all gst based players (totem, firefox, etc.) > > Alexis. >
Good point. So let's drop "The most notable example ..." until the end of the paragraph. And since this is now on the Council's agenda, we're waiting for their decision. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer
