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.

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Slavek