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From: "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: split up media-sound/ category
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:35:20
Message-Id: 4E03BEAE.1090603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: split up media-sound/ category by Kent Fredric
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4 On 06/22/2011 05:18 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
5 > On 22 June 2011 08:37, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 >>> Right. mplayer, xine, etc, work just fine as for instance mp3
7 >>> players. So media-xxxx is fine for them.
8 >>
9 >> But probably we'll move it into media-players and so on then.
10 >
11 > mplayer and some other things most-often used for playback might be a
12 > bit of a hard-to-categorise subject though, ie: mplayer ships with
13 > mencoder, which is more editing spectrum. I'm lead to believe you can
14 > do some degree of transcoding with VLC too, but I might have a memory
15 > problem ( I recall reading something along those lines, but it may be
16 > "future tense" )
17 >
18 > incidentally, I'd be in favour of splitting mplayer and mencoder into
19 > seperate dists if it were sanely plausible to do so.
20 >
21 >
22 I'd venture that most people grab mplayer for its playback capabilities
23 more often than its ability to modify media.
24
25 - - Aaron
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