2013/3/27 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com>: > Would it be possible to have smplayer detect the version of the > mplayer binary in some other way, such as by looking at some > environment variable or looking at some file in the system? I would > guess that the environment variable approach might be portable and > allow easy testing during the development of smplayer. Moreover, it > would allow me to locate the best location in the source-code to hook > a distro-specific check into. > > What do you think?
The environment variable could work if all distros implemented it, otherwise the problem would be fixed on debian only. I can make smplayer to run "mplayer -v" to get the info, but mplayer/mplayer2 are large applications and take some time to load, so that would increase the startup time of smplayer, that's why I didn't want to do that so far. Another possible fix, easy to do: install mplayer2 as /usr/bin/mplayer2 but add also the symlink /usr/bin/mplayer -> /usr/bin/mplayer2. This way smplayer could detect the symlink and find out the actual executable name. But I would suggest to allow the user to have both mplayer and mplayer2 installed at the same time. Currently if you install mplayer2 it replaces mplayer and vice versa. Both applications are similar but they are not the same. mplayer2 has interesting new things, like support for ordered chapters, but it also has its own issues and some videos play better in mplayer. For me it's a problem not being able to have both applications installed at the same time. Besides there's now another mplayer fork, called mpv (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/README.rst), if it's added some day to debian, will you also name the executable "mplayer"? I wouldn't find very logic to have 3 different applications with the same executable name. For me it would be very difficult to support the 3 applications if they all have the same name. -- RVM _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
