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).