On 2023-12-04, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Do you really need both mpv and mplayer?
>
>
> Given the new one fails to build, that is a good question. Personally,
> I just want to play videos. lol This is what equery shows as needing
> mplayer.
>
>
>
> root@fireball / # equery d media-video/mplayer
> * These packages depend on media-video/mplayer:
> media-video/devedeng-4.17.0-r2 (media-video/mplayer)
> media-video/h264enc-10.4.7-r1 (media-video/mplayer[encode,x264])
> media-video/smplayer-23.6.0 (media-video/mplayer[bidi?,libass,png,X])
> root@fireball / #
>
> I use smplayer, a LOT. It's what I use to watch videos on my TV with.
> Can smplayer use mpv instead?
According to Wikipedia:
SMPlayer is a cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer and mpv.
In the smplayer ebuild file is says this:
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
|| (
media-video/mpv[libass(+),X]
media-video/mplayer[bidi?,libass,png,X]
)
So yes, smplayer will use either.
> Would disabling those USE flags above make it not need mplayer?
In the devedeng emerge file it too appears to be happy with either mplayer,
vlc, or mpv:
RDEPEND="
[...]
|| ( media-video/vlc media-video/mpv media-video/mplayer )
[...]
"
However, the "h264enc" package has a hard dependency on mplayer.
