diff --git a/contrib/video_mencoder.lua b/contrib/video_mencoder.lua
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---[[
-    This file is part of darktable,
-    Copyright 2014 by Tobias Jakobs.
-
-    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
-
-    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-    GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-]]
---[[
-darktable video export script
-
-ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR THIS SCRIPT
-* mencoder (MEncoder is from the MPlayer Team)
-* xdg-open
-* xdg-user-dir
-
-WARNING
-This script is only tested with Linux
-
-USAGE
-* require this script from your main lua file
-]]
-
-local dt = require "darktable"
-local du = require "lib/dtutils"
-local df = require "lib/dtutils.file"
-require "official/yield"
-local gettext = dt.gettext
-
-du.check_min_api_version("2.0.1", "video_mencoder") 
-
--- Tell gettext where to find the .mo file translating messages for a particular domain
-gettext.bindtextdomain("video_mencoder",dt.configuration.config_dir.."/lua/locale/")
-
-local function _(msgid)
-    return gettext.dgettext("video_mencoder", msgid)
-end
-
-local function show_status(storage, image, format, filename, number, total, high_quality, extra_data)
-    dt.print("Export Image "..tostring(number).."/"..tostring(total))
-end
-
-local function create_video_mencoder(storage, image_table, extra_data)
-    dt.print("video_mencoder is deprecated.  Please use video_ffmpeg instead.  Please see the log for more details.")
-    dt.print_log("The mencoder executable is no longer distributed as part of most distributions,")
-    dt.print_log("therefore video_mencoder is deprecated. video_ffmpeg should be used in it's place.  video_mencoder")
-    dt.print_log("will be removed when darktable 2.8 is released.")
-    if not df.check_if_bin_exists("mencoder") then
-        dt.print_error(_("mencoder not found"))
-        return
-    end
-    if not df.check_if_bin_exists("xdg-open") then
-        dt.print_error(_("xdg-open not found"))
-        return
-    end
-    if not df.check_if_bin_exists("xdg-user-dir") then
-        dt.print_error(_("xdg-user-dir not found"))
-        return
-    end
-
-    exportDirectory = dt.preferences.read("video_mencoder","ExportDirectory","string")
-    exportFilename = "output.avi"
-    framsePerSecond = dt.preferences.read("video_mencoder","FramesPerSecond","integer")
-    
-    dt.print_error("Will try to create video now")
-    -- Set the codec    
-    local codec = ""
-    local codecPreferences = ""
-    
-    codecPreferences = dt.preferences.read("video_mencoder","Codec","string")
-    if (codecPreferences == "H.264 encoding") then
-	codec = 'x264'
-    end    
-    if (codecPreferences == "XviD encoding") then
-	codec = 'xvid'
-    end
-    if not codecPreferences then
-	codec = 'x264'
-    end
-    
-    -- Create the command
-    local command = "mencoder -idx -nosound -noskip -ovc "..codec.." -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -o  "..exportDirectory.."/"..exportFilename.." -mf fps="..framsePerSecond .." mf://"
-
-    for _,v in pairs(image_table) do
-        command = command..v..","
-    end
-
-    dt.print_error("this is the command: "..command)
-    dt.control.execute( command)
-
-    dt.print("Video created in "..exportDirectory)
-    
-    if ( dt.preferences.read("video_mencoder","OpenVideo","bool") == true ) then
-        local playVideoCommand = "xdg-open "..exportDirectory.."/"..exportFilename
-        dt.control.execute( playVideoCommand) 
-    end
-end
-
--- Preferences
-dt.preferences.register("video_mencoder", "FramesPerSecond", "float", "Video exort (MEncoder): Frames per second", "Frames per Second in the Video export", 15, 1, 99, 0.1 )
-dt.preferences.register("video_mencoder", "OpenVideo", "bool", "Video exort (MEncoder): Open video after export", "Opens the Video after the export with the standard video player", false )
-
-local handle = io.popen("xdg-user-dir VIDEOS")
-local result = handle:read()
-handle:close()
-if (result == nil) then
-	result = ""
-end
-dt.preferences.register("video_mencoder", "ExportDirectory", "directory", "Video exort (MEncoder): Video export directory","A directory that will be used to export a Video",result)
-
--- Get the MEncoder codec list with: mencoder -ovc help
-dt.preferences.register("video_mencoder", "Codec", "enum", "Video exort (MEncoder): Codec","Video codec","H.264 encoding","H.264 encoding","XviD encoding") 
-
--- Register
-dt.register_storage("video_mencoder", "Video Export (MEncoder)", show_status, create_video)