On Saturday 06 of September 2014 14:09:23 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> > 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
>

Mencoder is part of mplayer1. I'm not sure that we want to maintain mplayer1. 
Therefore, it seems to me to be more appropriate to replace mencoder by 
libav-tools (avconv). For now I have not examined how difficult task it is.

-- 
Slavek