On Tuesday 12 May 2009 02:31:47 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > severity 370599 wishlist > tag 370599 help > stop > > forwarding to the debian bts > > > Le 10/05/2009 21:26, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > >> Mantas Kriaučiūnas <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Hi Reinhard, > >>> > >>> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 07:00:43AM -0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >>>> Mantas Kriaučiūnas <[email protected]> writes: > >>>>> Lionel Le Folgoc <[email protected]> already created ffmpeg deb > >>>>> packages with AMRNB and AMRWB format support, I found packages for > >>>>> Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) at Medibuntu-maintainers package archive > >>>> > >>>> the problem with that approach is that it creates a hard dependency on > >>>> the libamr packages, which are totally unredistributable and cannot > >>>> possibly included into ubuntu proper. > >>> > >>> Are you soru, that ffmpeg packages created by [email protected] > >>> creates hard dependancy? According to the changelog, these ffmpeg > >>> packages adds libamr support via dlopen(), this is runtime libamr > >>> detection, so, no hard dependancies on the libamr packages. I can paste > >>> changelog from patched ffmpeg packages for Ubuntu 8.10 again: > >>> > >>> ffmpeg (3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3+unstripped5+amr1) intrepid; > >>> urgency=low * debian/patches/60_dlopen_libamr.diff: add libamr support > >>> via dlopen(). (LP: #93849) > >>> * debian/patches/series: add the above patch. > >>> * debian/confflags: pass --enable-libamrnbbin and > >>> --enable-libamrwbbin. -- Lionel Le Folgoc < [email protected]> Mon, > >>> 27 Oct 2008 17:54:09 > >> > >> that is news to me. we could probably integrate this in the > >> ffmpeg-debian package. > >> > >> could you (or Lionel) please extract that patch and file it against the > >> ffmpeg-debian package in debian? I'll review it and see if we can > >> integrate it. > > > > Hi Reinhard, > > > > This patch was taken from the altlinux package (I probably slightly > > changed it to apply cleanly). You wrote about it in a previous comment > > (<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg-debian/+bug/93849/comm > >ents/18> I think), that it needs more work, and indeed, it seems it was > > rejected upstream when it was submitted (thread available at > > <http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-April/027866.html> > >). > > > > I don't have the time to further work on this currently unfortunately > > (not even to update it for jaunty in the PPA). There is probably an > > up-to-date version on > > <http://sisyphus.ru/srpm/Sisyphus/ffmpeg/patches/0> though. > > Okay, thanks for the status update. > > This report should now have enough pointers so that someone could > integrate and test it in the debian package. > > short summary: the patch dlopen() the amr libraries at runtime. this way > we don't need to link it against the libraries but can just use them if > they are around. This patch now needs cleaning up and testing. Michael > (ffmpeg project leader) seems interested in having this integrated, so > it would need someone to pick up his latest review and finish the > cleanup. > > FWIW, I personally don't have any sound material that would require > these libs so that I cannot test it myself. Help welcome. > > > -- > Gruesse/greetings, > Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
I'll look at this. -- Regards, Andres
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