On Sunday 07 of September 2014 01:42:19 Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2014 05:34:27 am you wrote: > > On Saturday 06 of September 2014 14:38:35 Michele Calgaro wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > There is one difference from libotr2. For kopete-otr is dependence > > libotr2 required for build. While mencoder is required for k9copy > > "only" for some activities at runtime. > > > > As I watched on the deb-multimedia is old mplayer including mencoder > > still available for Jessie. Thus, users can simply add this apt > > source that is maintained. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Note: While I was not looking, what is the state with Ubuntu 14.10 > > (Utopic). > > deb-multiedia is not really compatable with Debian, It was/is needed for > libdvdcss2 . I don't think its the solution for Jessie. > > > ---- > Peace, > > Greg > I normally use it on many workstations - currently on Squeeze and Wheezy. Workstation with Jessie I do not have one yet. The problems I observed rarely. -- Slavek