i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer
so i install etch, only to use mplayer
only to learn mencoder is not included

Why?



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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:28:55PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer
> > so i install etch, only to use mplayer
> > only to learn mencoder is not included
> >
> > Why?
>
> What is mencoder?

Mencoder is the encoding component of mplayer. Back when I compiled my own
mplayer, it came as part of the package.
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:55 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer
> > so i install etch, only to use mplayer
> > only to learn mencoder is not included
> >
> > Why?
>
> What is mencoder?
>
> It may not be possible to be part of debian but it may be on
> debian-multimedia.org.

That is indeed the case:

~$ apt-cache policy mencoder
mencoder:
Installed: 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3
Candidate: 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3
Version table:
*** 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3 0
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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