> 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.

Ok Slavek, now I get what you mean. It makes sense to do the switch if possible (I also have no clue how long it would require).
As a temporary solution until we complete such task we can still consider adding mencoder to the dependency package list, as we did with libotr2. What do you think?

Cheers
  Michele