Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> If you want to add some last bits, please do it by tomorrow morning,
>
> I updated the mplayer2 section and added mplayer to the dropped section (I also
> slightly edited the mpv description). They all probably need some proof-reading
> though.

Thanks for the update. I do have a comment about the last two sentences:


> Note that while mplayer2 adds a few new features, others (such as mencoder) have been dropped as well. Also note that mplayer2 is not maintained upstream anymore (differently from e.g. mpv).

I'm not sure if it makes sense to mention its upstream support status,
because you might ask the question "well, why do you keep it then in
the first place?". Fact is that Debian is going to support the package
for wheezy, and the statement as written is rather confusing.

>
> Also, I noticed that a lot of the changes mentioned are mostly relevant to
> wheezy (e.g. lame, x264, libav, xvidcore, ...), so maybe the fact that the
> changes presented are not only relevant to jessie should be mentioned (the first
> paragraph kinda does this, but IMO it's not very clear).

FWIW, I personally think we should not mention any of "lame",
"xvidcore", "x264" or "mplayer2". All of these packages are already in
stable, so the text as current is not exactly news.

Also, I'm a bit weary with advertising that Debian now ships with
fancy modern decoders, because I fear of trolls that ask questions
about legality, patents, etc. I've therefore avoided references
regarding that in my proposed text for libavcodec/libav.

>
> Also^2, the libav section IMO should be more about what version are we going to
> release and what new changes it brings since wheezy. This can be compiled from
> libav release notes [0] [1] [2], though I'll leave that to the libav maintainer
> judgment. The fact that we switched from ffmpeg is, I think, pretty clear to
> everyone already.

Exactly. I've just updated the section.

BTW, the maintainer of libav is (currently) the pkg-multimedia team ;-)





-- 
regards,
    Reinhard