[MPlayer-users] Still no vorbis audio

[Rolf Ernst]

>
>  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.
>
> Well, there is the DVD business, of course (recoding VOBs is certainly not
the same). Hardcoded subtitles. Couldn't tell you exactly which filters but
there are a number. Personally did not find any decent and actually working
frontends for Linux (ergo wrote mine for mencoder). (most of the stuff is
either not working, blows up or is Windows-only). Couldn't get ffmpeg to
work with (somewhat broken) input files from Hauppage HD PVR.

But now that I know I can close the chapter on mencoder. It would have been
nice if this were clearly stated somewhere, i.e. 'Mencoder is no longer
maintained'. It certainly would have saved me tens of thousands of lines of
code.


/re