[MEncoder-users] Unmaintained (Was: Re: mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy h264 hangs)

[Rolf Ernst]

  On 8/17/2010 9:40 AM, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> This must be an FAQ:
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:26:32 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Sorry, but on this list (apart from mencoder being an unmaintained application),
>> you can only get help for latest svn.
> If it's unmaintained, why do significant things change in SVN requiring
> to use the latest version?
>
> Or does this refer to the encoding section, where decoding (mostly
> being the first step in an encoding process) is indeed maintained and
> happens to fix problems as the one mentioned?
>
> mencoder is used in many tool chains, it's so unfortunate that it
> either can't be used properly or needs to be combined with other tools
> via remuxing in order to be able to utilize the neat features it has
> (ahead of ffmpeg).
>
> Thanks,
> Moritz
> _______________________________________________
Amen.