On 08/17/2010 05:14 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been using mplayer-vaapi [1] with my Radeon HD 4200 IGP for a
couple of months now and I think it's a very useful package. Recently,
its maintainer in the AUR dropped it because he switched to libvdpau.
So, I've been thinking of adopting it and moving it to [community].
I haven't done anything yet, as I'm a bit unsure of whether I should
go forward with the move. On one hand, a binary package for
mplayer-vaapi is included in the unofficial, but well maintained,
catalyst repo [2], but on the other hand it still is a useful package
and it only has an additional dependency on libva (available in
[extra]) compared to the straight mplayer package; it'd be nice to
have it in [community].
Thomas would be very happy to have this in our repos. :) I don't have
any particular issues with it but this open a road in which we allowed
patched applications in our repos.
This patch wasn't accepted upstream by mplayer devs yet.
On an semi-related note, I was also thinking of moving xvba-video to
[community] as well, but it depends on the catalyst package which has
a very complicated PKGBUILD (i.e. manual installation of every file).
Therefore, I don't have any plans to mess with that for now. :P
Did catalyst resolved the issues that we had with it some time ago?
If yes catalyst should be repacked properly if you want it in repos,
like nvidia is.
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Ionuț
