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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 32191@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:04:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717210441.GA12949@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717202545.GA17447@jurong>

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> So I see two possible courses of action:
> - Keep mplayer and compile it with ffmpeg-3.4, which requires us to keep also
>   this older ffmpeg package around.

I think we will probably need to keep ffmpeg-2 and ffmpeg-3 for a while
anyways, so we might as well fix the mplayer package now.

> - Drop mplayer, and replace it by mpv (there is a field in the package
>   definition to indicate this).

Unless mplayer development continues, the package will bitrot and we
will have to replace it with mpv eventually.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17 20:25 bug#32191: Mplayer fails to play videos Andreas Enge
2018-07-17 21:04 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2018-07-17 21:42   ` Andreas Enge
2018-07-18  9:23 ` swedebugia

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