Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Alessio Treglia]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo at debian.org> wrote:
> The mpv package description has a short list of changes from mplayer2, but I
> haven't touched it in a while so it may be a little outdated. If needed I can
> prepare a better list of improvements vs mplayer/mplayer2.

Yes, please, it would be much appreciated.

> Also, worth mentioning maybe is that a) mpv's command-line options are not
> compatible with the mplayer ones and that b) since mpv dropped some old mplayer
> code in favor of libav/ffmpeg features, there may be some incompatibilities
> there as well (also, considering that Debian uses libav instead of ffmpeg, some
> mpv features work better with ffmpeg or don't work at all with libav).

Please leave a note on this too.

> It may also be worth mentioning that MPlayer has been dropped, and that mplayer2
> is essentially dead upstream.

+1

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