John Burrell wrote: > > I think some comments in the book are needed now. > > I know you can't cover all possible build options, but the multimedia > packages are popular with the blfs community and some guidance would > be welcome. May be could you add some references so we can go and > read for ourselves. > > I know I spend a lot of time not really knowing exactly what I should > be installing to support a certain media player. So I probably > install more than is required - just to cover my derrière. For > example I use VLC to play movies. It is based on ffmpeg so I assume I > should stick with the 0.10 versions of the gst plugins.
The vlc instructions show a dependency of FFmpeg-0.11.2, so use that. So questions > which immediately arise for me are, amongst other - > > Who deprecated ffmpeg? I suspect the gnome developers. > Will VLC continue to be based on ffmpeg? That's an upstream decision. > Why do I need libav? totem, cheese, brasero, gnome-shell, gstreamer10, farstream, libnice, webkit, clutter. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
