That is my strongly held opinion on this matter... mencoder's our last uncastrated encoder suite in the Ubuntu repositories (we lost ffmpeg in the quest to bring it to main, though AFAIK it still has the mpeg4 encoder for some reason, but that's a discussion for another day), and I believe it's in our best interest to keep this in multiverse, unless we have a smoother officially sanctioned migration path for people who require the encoding abilities.<br> <br><br>This is, though a good discussion for us to start having: How should we address situations like this and ffmpeg? For ffmpeg, many users are turning towards Medibuntu repositories, which builds with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS+=risky, which enables the encoders. Whether or not we like it idealogically, there are going to be users that require dealing with restricted formats.<br> <br><br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Reinhard Tartler <<a href="mailto:siretart@ubuntu.com">siretart@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> So in the end you are proposing to drop mencoder. The last time I raised<br> this issue I was told that users prefered to have mencoder in multiverse<br> to not having mencoder at all.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Gruesse/greetings,<br> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> --<br> Ubuntu-motu mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>