On 14.12.2013, at 23:53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/14/2013 11:07 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Package: mplayer >>> Severity: serious >>> >>> Should this package be removed? If so, please reassign to ftp.debian.org >>> >>> - Last upload nearly two years ago >>> - FTBFS for a long time >>> - Incompatible with current libav >>> - Alternatives exist (mplayer2, mpv) > > Well, to be honest, I think the problem is actually libav, not mplayer. > Most users prefer the original ffmpeg over libav from my own experience. > > And there are new upstream releases of mplayer which are actually more > frequent and active than mplayer2: > > - mplayer: current stable release 1.1.1, released May 6th, 2013 > - mplayer2: current stable release 2.0, released: March 24th, 2011 > > Even the latest git commit for mplayer2 is older than the current > stable release of mplayer. The latter seems much more active to me. > > So, what I'd rather like to see is that we get a proper ffmpeg > back in Debian again which would also allow to update mplayer > to the current upstream version. There is even an RFP for > that [1]. But I guess this is not going to happen. > > I'm still a bit sad that the split among the ffmpeg people > happened. > > Adrian > >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203
I thought someone was working on it already, but I am happy to help out both with getting a parallel install of FFmpeg working (via a rpath hack for example, supported in FFmpeg configure but probably needs fixes to MPlayer's configure to work) and to a limited degree also making MPlayer work with Libav. However the latter would need a proper maintainer, and Libav misses quite a few features MPlayer needs, so it would be problematic and the result questionable IMHO. I am assuming nobody in Debian wants to compile MPlayer statically/against an "internal" copy of FFmpeg. Reimar _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
