On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:18:13 -0500 Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Alexis Ballier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:37:09 +0100 > > Alexis Ballier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > media-video/mplayer2 or media-video/mpv may be used as a more > >> > modern replacement. > >> > >> Don't recommend mplayer2, afaik it's dead. > > > > Also, I'd drop "modern" from there: I don't see much more modernity > > in those forks except maybe younger maintainers :) > > > > Is there an exhaustive list of packages that don't work with one or > the other? not really as ideally there shouldn't be any; mplayer is the most notable example, xbmc used to be but not sure these days > I suggest just cutting the subjective parts out of the last paragraph: > > Please also note that some packages support only one of the two > implementations. An attempt to install one of those packages will > result in blockers unless the user changes the global USE=libav > state. The most notable example of such package is > media-video/mplayer. media-video/mplayer2 or media-video/mpv may be > used as replacements for users who prefer to use libav. > yes that's what i meant, but also dropping mplayer2 from there too: http://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2/ even good old mplayer is much more actively maintained and evolving :)
