On Saturday 06 September 2014 04:02:35 pm you wrote: > 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. I lack concrete examples of conflicts at this time, it beens to long since I made the deision to stop using deb-multimedia, I could entertain the idea it is different now. How do users of Jessie+ TDE learn about adding deb-multimedia to sources.list? Maintaining multiple addition sources is not desirable, Debian only nables 'main' in a default install. Can TDE provide mencoder-trinity in is repo? -- Peace, Greg