mencoder package not available in 14.10

[djcj]

mencoder is not available in Ubuntu 14.10.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrew Fossey (andrewfossey)]

This fault needs to be fixed ASAP.

[dinamic (dinamic6661)]

updates?

[Consumology (hans-georg-schmid)]

As a workaround I downloaded the .deb for trusty and it seems to work fine. (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/utopic/amd64/mencoder/2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3)

[djcj (djcj)]

Here some advice if you want to re-add mencoder in future and you don't want to link it statically.
Add the following libav files from the distributions current libav package to the source tree:
ffmpeg/libavcodec/allcodecs.c
ffmpeg/libavfilter/allfilters.c
ffmpeg/libavformat/allformats.c
ffmpeg/libavutil/x86/asm.h

Then add the attached patch. Now the built mencoder will be linked correctly against the system's libav libraries.

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[Walt Boring (walter-boring)]

I just tried to update and reinstall mplayer2 and it doesn't have mencoder

[djcj (djcj)]

Why was the status changed to "fix released"? Mencoder is still not available.

[thump (thump)]

^ What he said.

[Walt Boring (walter-boring)]

This absolutely has NOT beed fixed. I'm filing a new bug.

[Walt Boring (walter-boring)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer2/+bug/1426720

That's the new bug. It'll get marked as a duplicate and this one will hopefully get reopened.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

While this bug has been improperly marked as 'fix-released' it has almost the same effect as what it should of been marked which is Invalid.
mencoder is not in mplayer2 source (dead project anyway), it was and to some extent is (unsupported) part of mplayer source.

So file a bug on mplayer source to get it, (mplayer) returned as it was removed from Debian & consequently Ubuntu, that's why no mencoder.