> The question is whether k9copy without MEncoder is useful? We could move
> mencoder to Recommends or set variant dependency "mencoder | libav-tools".
> But the question is whether it will be useful without rewrite k9copy to able
> use avconv instead of mencoder?

Basically mencoder is no longer supported in Debian, but it seems it is still available under Ubuntu (at least until Trusty).
I think an easy solution is to add mencoder to the list of dependency packages that we maintain and leave everything else as is at the moment.
Cheers
  Michele