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FS#7441 - Mplayer dependencies

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Roberth Sjonøy (roberth) - Thursday, 14 June 2007, 14:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 17 June 2007, 11:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Mplayer should not depend on codecs.

Since 1.0rc, ffmpeg has been included in the media player which makes support for alle media formats included in mplayer, and therefor codecs is not needed, including uneccesary dependencies, codecs also leads to worse playback of movie, which means not as good image quality in mplayer, bad wmv support, probably many other problems.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 17 June 2007, 11:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Changed to essential codecs, moved to extra as nothing in current needs it.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 14 June 2007, 21:43 GMT
Hmm, does ffmpeg play realmedia? Don't think so. IMHO our codecs package should be stripped down to the "essentials" package, just like on amd64. The essentials codec package only includes those codecs which are not available in free codecs.
Comment by Roberth Sjonøy (roberth) - Friday, 15 June 2007, 11:17 GMT
http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_Features_Formats

According to that list ffmpeg supports most realmedia, if users need support for the other realmedia formats, the user can install codecs.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 15 June 2007, 11:42 GMT
Realvideo in the most common version nowadays isn't supported by ffmpeg according to that list.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 16 June 2007, 09:22 GMT
Stripping codecs down to essential is good with me. I am wondering: we had it at essential in the past, why was it changed back to all?
Comment by Roberth Sjonøy (roberth) - Saturday, 16 June 2007, 16:49 GMT
Well to make codecs cover those formats ffmpeg doesn't support sounds good.

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