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authorKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-10-06 16:52:53 -0700
committerKevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com>2015-10-06 16:52:53 -0700
commitc6ff92c886ada791ba96994bc7dda72014c2103c (patch)
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parent7bc0b120f3cb4ab32a8d795dd5e1ce2ad8b5074d (diff)
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debian: update README.debian
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian
index af11ca1..75b536d 100644
--- a/debian/README.debian
+++ b/debian/README.debian
@@ -19,11 +19,10 @@ outdated to extremely outdated. This pacakge can be compiled on all of these
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.
-Debian and Ubuntu use the libav fork of ffmpeg, and therefore that's what their
+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 the "experimental"
-repository.
+has added a version of mpv built against ffmpeg to testing.
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
@@ -32,10 +31,9 @@ use buggy and outdated libass releases.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, harfbuzz
-support for RTL scripts and sdl2 audio/video output (you may
-nevertheless trivially enable these provided sufficiently recent
-libraries - see below).
+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).
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