[MPlayer-users] Still no vorbis audio

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Rolf Ernst <rolf.ernst <at> silverlightning.org> writes:

> > You are right to interpret that MEncoder is unmaintained software which
> > could break in theory for any input/output, but which likely doesn't work
> > well for new things like webm.
> >    
> Come again? It is end-of-life? I thought there just was a new release? 

Of one year old code? You must be kidding!

> It has many advantages over ffmpeg

Could you elaborate?
(Note that there is a yadif patch for FFmpeg)
(And yes, I know that Realmedia files work very badly with FFmpeg.)

> and works just as fine (vorbis excluded) for VP8.

That sounds unlikely to me, but please, do not let me stop you using MEncoder, I
just wanted to repeat that it is currently (and since quite some time) de-facto
unmaintained (as you found out these days).
And it seems you weren't aware of it which makes it a good reason to repeat.

> What is Reimar then doing? It looks to me like he is maintaining it.

Yes, of course, but he has stated repeatedly that he sees it as unmaintained.

> When I check it out from svn I see the number being bumped all the time. 
> Can you clarify this?

Are you sure you are not mixing up MPlayer and MEncoder? I ask because I don't
remember the last MEncoder-specific commit before today's audio quality option
added.

Carl Eugen