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authorKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-11-09 22:39:58 -0800
committerKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-11-09 22:39:58 -0800
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debian: update readme
-rw-r--r--debian/README.debian23
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian
index 75b536d..00ea1fb 100644
--- a/debian/README.debian
+++ b/debian/README.debian
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ platforms and offers either the most recent mpv release or git master.
This pacakge statically links against the latest release or git master of ffmpeg.
Older Debian and Ubuntu use the libav fork of ffmpeg, and therefore that's what their
official mpv packages link against. However, ffmpeg is preferred for building
-mpv as it enables more features. This situation is however changing as Debian
-has added a version of mpv built against ffmpeg to testing.
+mpv as it enables more features. This situation is however changing as the
+Debian testing version is now built against ffmpeg.
Since the release cycle of libass is quite slow, even the "release" version of
this package links against the libass git master. Debian unstable uses the
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ latest libass release, while Debian stable, the latest Ubuntu and Ubuntu LTS all
use buggy and outdated libass releases.
In order to maintain this interoperability between distributions, this
-package must necessarily disable some features by default which are
-not universally supported. These include Wayland support and harfbuzz
-support for RTL scripts (you may nevertheless trivially enable these
-provided sufficiently recent libraries - see below).
+package must necessarily disable some features by default which are not
+universally supported. These include Wayland support and libfdk for high
+quality AAC encoding. These can hoewver be trivially enabled provided
+sufficiently recent libraries as described below.
On the other hand, this package enables native smb support (to play smb://
URLs), video4linux2 (for web cams and video capture) and caca (for silly ascii
@@ -93,14 +93,3 @@ necessary packages before building:
The mpv build will then automatically detect and link to them if they are new
enough.
-
-Harfbuz support
-===============
-
-To enable RTL (Right To Left) support in libass requires only
-installing the relevant development package:
-
- apt-get install libharfbuzz-dev
-
-The libass configure will then automatically find it. This is
-necessary as the package is not available in Debian Wheezy.