Bug#763736: Consider adding mpv-ffmpeg using ffmpeg instead of libav

Milan Straka fox at ucw.cz
Sat Oct 4 15:57:07 UTC 2014


> -----Original message-----
> From: Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo at debian.org>
> Sent: 4 Oct 2014, 17:33
>
> On gio, ott 02, 2014 at 11:13:04 +0200, Milan Straka wrote:
> > Now that ffmpeg is in experimental (via #729203), would you consider
> > creating a mpv-ffmpeg package, which would be identical to mpv, but
> > instead of linking libav would link ffmpeg?
> 
> That's not going to happen, however, I was thinking about uploading the mpv
> package (the normal mpv package), built against ffmpeg in experimental only, so
> we'd have the usual libav mpv in sid/testing/stable and the ffmpeg one in
> experimental.
> 
> Would that be useful to you as well?

Yes, that would be great. I do not mind the name of the package, as long
as it uses ffmpeg instead of libav :-)

I suggested another package name just to make the dependency explicit,
but if plain 'mpv' is better for any reason, that is fine by me.

Cheers,
Milan Straka



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