[arch-dev-public] Dropping mplayer2
I'd like to drop mplayer2 from our repositories. The last commit has been made in the end of April and upstream failed to make new release during last 3 years. While it's possible to keep it in repositories, I don't see any reason to do so. I recommend switching to community/mpv (which is a great replacement with even better performance) or vanilla mplayer from [extra]. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
On 27 September 2013 20:55, Bartłomiej Piotrowski
I'd like to drop mplayer2 from our repositories. The last commit has been made in the end of April and upstream failed to make new release during last 3 years. While it's possible to keep it in repositories, I don't see any reason to do so.
I recommend switching to community/mpv (which is a great replacement with even better performance) or vanilla mplayer from [extra].
-- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
+1 never used it myself. Plain old vanilla just works. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski
I'd like to drop mplayer2 from our repositories. The last commit has been made in the end of April and upstream failed to make new release during last 3 years. While it's possible to keep it in repositories, I don't see any reason to do so.
I recommend switching to community/mpv (which is a great replacement with even better performance) or vanilla mplayer from [extra].
I'm using mplayer-vaapi for its VAAPI support. However, classic mplayer and its vaapi fork suffer from a bug that prevents them from contacting dual-IPv4/v6 hosts via IPv6; they try to interpret the v4 address as a v6 one (padding with zeroes), instead of using the actual v6 address. Neither mplayer2 nor mpv seem to support vaapi output. mpv depends on libva, but does not link against it. Seems there's just no good one for me.
Am 28.09.2013 00:52, schrieb Jan Alexander Steffens:
Neither mplayer2 nor mpv seem to support vaapi output. mpv depends on libva, but does not link against it.
Actually, mpv-git works just fine with libva.
[2013-09-27 14:55:16 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
I'd like to drop mplayer2 from our repositories. The last commit has been made in the end of April and upstream failed to make new release during last 3 years. While it's possible to keep it in repositories, I don't see any reason to do so.
Sounds great to me. We certainly do not need three mplayer forks in our repos, especially since mpv brings together the advantages of each... -- Gaetan
On 09/27/2013 02:55 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
I'd like to drop mplayer2 from our repositories. The last commit has been made in the end of April and upstream failed to make new release during last 3 years. While it's possible to keep it in repositories, I don't see any reason to do so.
I recommend switching to community/mpv (which is a great replacement with even better performance) or vanilla mplayer from [extra].
Dropped. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
participants (5)
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Bartłomiej Piotrowski
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Gaetan Bisson
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Jan Alexander Steffens
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Rashif Ray Rahman
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Thomas Bächler