On 08/17/2010 05:14 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been using mplayer-vaapi [1] with my Radeon HD 4200 IGP for a couple of months now and I think it's a very useful package. Recently, its maintainer in the AUR dropped it because he switched to libvdpau. So, I've been thinking of adopting it and moving it to [community].
I haven't done anything yet, as I'm a bit unsure of whether I should go forward with the move. On one hand, a binary package for mplayer-vaapi is included in the unofficial, but well maintained, catalyst repo [2], but on the other hand it still is a useful package and it only has an additional dependency on libva (available in [extra]) compared to the straight mplayer package; it'd be nice to have it in [community].
Thomas would be very happy to have this in our repos. :) I don't have any particular issues with it but this open a road in which we allowed patched applications in our repos. This patch wasn't accepted upstream by mplayer devs yet.
On an semi-related note, I was also thinking of moving xvba-video to [community] as well, but it depends on the catalyst package which has a very complicated PKGBUILD (i.e. manual installation of every file). Therefore, I don't have any plans to mess with that for now. :P
Did catalyst resolved the issues that we had with it some time ago? If yes catalyst should be repacked properly if you want it in repos, like nvidia is. -- Ionuț