Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping mplayer-vaapi
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 08:34:01PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
I'll be moving mplayer-vaapi to the AUR in a few days.
That's most unfortunate.
Are you dropping support for it because it has been forked & replaced
upstream, or because of time constraints on your end? Or have you migrated
away from nvidia graphics?
If the former, could you recommend an [extra] or [community] / officially
supported mplayer-based or mplayer-like package other than mplayer-vaapi
that is accelerated on machines that use nvidia drivers? Non-VAAPI mplayer
seems to have terrible performance for me compared to mplayer-vaapi.
This is an important media-playing package that should not be dropped,
IMO. I'm not a TU, but is it possible someone else would pick it up, if
there is no supported VAAPI-enabled mplayer fork?
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Zack Buhman
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 08:34:01PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
I'll be moving mplayer-vaapi to the AUR in a few days.
That's most unfortunate.
On 8.3.2015 3:19, Ido Rosen wrote:
Are you dropping support for it because it has been forked & replaced upstream, or because of time constraints on your end? Or have you migrated away from nvidia graphics?
If the former, could you recommend an [extra] or [community] / officially supported mplayer-based or mplayer-like package other than mplayer-vaapi that is accelerated on machines that use nvidia drivers? Non-VAAPI mplayer seems to have terrible performance for me compared to mplayer-vaapi.
This is an important media-playing package that should not be dropped, IMO. I'm not a TU, but is it possible someone else would pick it up, if there is no supported VAAPI-enabled mplayer fork?
Well, mplayer vaapi git repo is unmaintained and out of date and it lags way behind the official mplayer package. There's always mpv in community, which is a fork of mplayer and mplayer2, yet way more evolved than both of them. And it even supports VAAPI.
On 08/03/15 04:19, Ido Rosen wrote:
Are you dropping support for it because it has been forked & replaced upstream, or because of time constraints on your end? Or have you migrated away from nvidia graphics?
Like Armin said, mplayer-vaapi hasn't been kept in sync with mplayer since mid–2013. mpv can be used as a replacement and the latest smplayer (14.9.0.6690) also supports using mpv in place of mplayer.
As 'smplayer' supports using 'mpv' as its backend, is it possible to move
'mplayer' from the depends array of the package smplayer
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/smplayer/ to the
optdepends array? I've installed 'mplayer-vaapi' which provides 'mplayer'
as a dependency of 'smplayer'. And as 'mplayer-vaapi' is dropped now, I
just want to keep 'mpv' alone, rather than falling 'mplayer-vaapi' back to
'mplayer'.
Hope for your replies!
2015-03-08 16:06 GMT+08:00 Evangelos Foutras
On 08/03/15 04:19, Ido Rosen wrote:
Are you dropping support for it because it has been forked & replaced upstream, or because of time constraints on your end? Or have you migrated away from nvidia graphics?
Like Armin said, mplayer-vaapi hasn't been kept in sync with mplayer since mid–2013. mpv can be used as a replacement and the latest smplayer (14.9.0.6690) also supports using mpv in place of mplayer.
participants (5)
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Armin K.
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Evangelos Foutras
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Fernando Gilberto Pereira da Silva
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Ido Rosen
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Zack Buhman