Author: ken
Date: 2012-09-14 17:46:07 -0600 (Fri, 14 Sep 2012)
New Revision: 10666
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml
Log:
Put in a Note in transcode, to replace the comment about the patch, and expand
the entry on tccat.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-09-14 19:18:38 UTC (rev 10665)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-09-14 23:46:07 UTC (rev 10666)
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
$Date$
-->
-<!ENTITY day "13"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "14"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "09"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2012">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "September 13th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "September 14th, &year;">
<!-- <!ENTITY releasedate "November &day;st, &year;"> -->
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-09-14 19:18:38 UTC
(rev 10665)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-09-14 23:46:07 UTC
(rev 10666)
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
<listitem>
<para>[rthomsen] - Qt 4.8.3.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - change the comment about ffmpeg functionality
+ in transcode to a note.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml 2012-09-14 19:18:38 UTC
(rev 10665)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/transcode.xml 2012-09-14 23:46:07 UTC
(rev 10666)
@@ -79,12 +79,6 @@
<para>
Required patch:
<ulink
url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-ffmpeg-1.patch"/>
- : Note that although this allows <application>transcode</application>
- to compile with current <application>ffmpeg</application>, it fails
if
- it calls ffmpeg at runtime, e.g. for certain format conversions. The
- remaining parts of the application, such as <command>tccat</command>,
- work and <command>ffmpeg</command> can be invoked outside of
- <command>transcode</command> if needed.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -135,6 +129,21 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Transcode</title>
+ <note>
+ <para>The details of how the <application>ffmpeg</application> libraries
+ are used has changed since this version of
+ <application>transcode</application> was released. The patch allows the
+ package to be compiled, but some or all of the internal calls to
+ <application>ffmpeg</application> fail at run time (they report an error
+ and processing continues, but without any output).</para>
+
+ <para>For many packages, that would be a critical error. In this case,
+ the main reason to install <application>transcode</application> is for
+ the <command>tccat</command> program, which works. Some of the
+ <command>transcode</command> options work - for the others, use
+ <command>ffmpeg</command> directly on the command line.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
Install <application>Transcode</application> by running the following
commands:
@@ -269,7 +278,8 @@
<listitem>
<para>
concatenates input files using the input plugins of
- <application>Transcode</application>.
+ <application>Transcode</application>. This is useful
+ for extracting VOB (Video OBject) files.
</para>
<indexterm zone="transcode tccat">
<primary sortas="b-tccat">tccat</primary>
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