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).

-- 
Slavek