[packman] mplayer2 state/removal

[Martin Herkt]

On Saturday 19 December 2015 12:30:43 David Haller wrote:
> I always thought it a bit presumptous, that the fork called itself
> mplayer2.

As a player, it definitely was a step forward, and I seriously hope no one is 
using MEncoder anymore, given all its flaws and ugly hacks. MEncoder was 
removed because it was beyond saving, just like the GUI mode was. There was a 
lot of refactoring to be done, and all that old cruft was just getting in the 
way. For the majority of use cases, FFmpeg’s command line tool can do the job 
just fine.

That said, after a lot of refactoring and more code removal, mpv got encoding 
support implemented in a different and better way. The only drawback is that 
it can’t do stream copy (due to how it works), but that’s what ffmpeg is for.
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