FFmpeg Mplayer VLC - News & Howtos

[andrew.46]

Just to extend this thread a little further some may be interested to know that a new version of mkvtoolnix has been released:

andrew@skamandros~$ mkvmerge --version
mkvmerge v6.3.0 ('You can't stop me!') built on Jun 28 2013 21:16:37

Mosu never stops

[andrew.46]

Hey, when did this thread go to sleep!! New version of mkvtoolnix has been released:

andrew@ilium~$ mkvmerge --version
mkvmerge v6.8.0 ('Theme for Great Cities') 64bit built on Mar 15 2014 16:47:31

with the beginning of support for h.265 encoded files. Upcoming news is that Mosu is rewriting the gui to support QT rather than wxWidgets. Interesting times ahead .

[andrew.46]

And in a great bit of news for abcde users development, which has slumbered for a while, will be moving along soon with a move to git and many other new developments...

[mc4man]

And in a great bit of news for abcde users development, which has slumbered for a while, will be moving along soon with a move to git and many other new developments...

A git link would be great (when it's up if not already, only saw an old one & fedora's

Are there any plans to add fdkaac?

[andrew.46]

Steve (abcde main developer) is keen to get a release out and announce the new git site in one go, so a little time yet. Definitely time for fdkaac after that though. I have commit access and would be more than happy to push a patch through if you are interested in producing one?

Mind you looks like I have to get a working knowledge of git first

[SeijiSensei]

Out of curiosity, what is the status of the mplayer/mplayer2 fork these days? Ubuntu still uses the latter, which works well for me, but is there any chance of a reconciliation some time soon? Are we missing anything of importance by Debian's continuing to rely on the mplayer2 code?

[andrew.46]

MPlayer 2 has been a little quiet since October last year while latest MPlayer patch was yesterday:

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r37230 | reimar | 2014-06-29 05:57:15 +1000 (Sun, 29 Jun 2014) | 5 lines

ad_spdif: do not call internal write_packet function directly.

Use av_write_frame instead.

Patch by Jan Andres [jandres gmx net].
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I suspect that Debian has jumped on the wrong media boat, not for the first time either

[andrew.46]

Are there any plans to add fdkaac?

BTW a quick and dirty test suggests that fdkaac actually works out of the box with a current abcde. I used AtomicParsley for the tagging (did not investigate fdkaac's tagging ability as this might need some adjustment) and added the following to ~/.abcde.conf:

AACENC=fdkaac
AACTAG=AtomicParsley
OUTPUTTYPE="m4a"
AACENCOPTS="-b 128"

plus the usual options and this certainly worked for me for a test cd. Hopefully you have time to see if same works for you?