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.


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Peace,

Greg