mpv: Yet another fork

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Hey Team,
>
> I have just learned that yet another fork of the mplayer/mplayer2 code
> base is approaching. It is called mpv and has its changelog available
> here:
> https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/en/changes.rst
>
> Some of this sounds promising. Is anybody from pkg-multimedia involved,
> or are there any opinions or plans top get this packaged up?

I just saw the news on phoronix, and I definitely want to take a
closer look on that. We can decide later in the cycle which of the
three forks we want to have in jessie, for now, I agree with you that
we should package them all and test them extensively.

Another very interesting project that we definitely should package is
https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl - It allows
mplayer/mplayer2/mpv to use hardware acceleration via the vdpau
interface on non-nvidia blob drivers, which I find pretty cool.

Unfortunately, since I'm going to defend my PhD thesis this Thursday,
I'm too busy to even file ITP bugs until next week. In any case, you
can count me in as supporter for both packages.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard