On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Olaf Dietsche <olaf--mail.dvb...@olafdietsche.de> wrote: > Michael Riepe <mich...@mr511.de> writes: > >> Hi *, >> >> On 11/07/12 17:26, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> >>> Since this list seems pretty quiet over the last months, I wanted to >>> check on the status of the dvbcut project. As maintainer of the dvbcut >>> package in Debian and Ubuntu, I am actually quite worried about >>> weather it makes sense to keep the package. I see currently two big >>> issues: Dependency on Qt3 and necessary updates for libavcodec. >> >> That's the big problem with dvbcut. You can't port it to another gui or >> another codec library - not even a newer version - without an >> unreasonable amount of work. >> >>> Qt3 is somewhat mitigated by a patch, which AFAIUI has still not been >>> merged upstream. What's the status on that? >> >> The problem with the Qt4 patch is that it needs to work on Windows, too. >> I haven't been able to check that yet, due to lack of time and a >> suitable system (my notebook, which also ran Windows, went kaput long ago). >> >>> Regarding libav, I've tried to compile dvbcut against libav 9, but the >>> list of compilation issues is long. >> >> I can imagine. I once tried it with libav 7 (I think). Thank you, not again. > > Just curious, what are (libav 9) or were (libav 7) the problems? I have > it running here (Ubuntu 12.04) with libavcodec53, which claims to be > version 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0 and I'm very comfortable with it. >
Have a look at the build log [1] and look for "is deprecated". These are heads-up to upstream developers that this function/type/attribute is going away in a newer version. This has now happened with libav 9. [1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/103823575/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-amd64.dvbcut_0.5.4%2Bsvn178-2_BUILDING.txt.gz -- regards, Reinhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ DVBCUT-devel mailing list DVBCUT-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvbcut-devel
