removing debian-release, as this discussion is not relevant for the next debian release.
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a related note, what are the plans for ffmpeg encoding? As it is, the > current lenny package seems to have stripped away most everything, leaving > the transcoding support of VLC (among others) near-useless (try using MPEG-1 > to stream low-bitrate video...). I just added a note about that to README.Debian: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-multimedia/experimental/ffmpeg/debian/README.Debian?view=markup Quoting from that: Disabled MPEG encoders ====================== On Debconf 7, the ffmpeg maintainers had a conversation with James Troup from the ftpteam about mpeg encoders in the ffmpeg package. The ftpteam was pretty surprised about the accepted encoders, and admitted that they were accepted by accident. We therefore had no choice but removing them. We agreed on a plan that rather disables than removes the encoders, for details see debian/strip.sh, rendering those encoders unusable. In order to make this fact visible, the source package was renamed from ffmpeg to ffmpeg-free. The plan is to provide a source package called 'ffmpeg' (without the -free) suffix, which builds drop-in replacement binary package with the mpeg encoders enabled. Ideally, we would be allowed to include those mpeg encoders enabled in non-free, but we haven't heared back from the ftpteam about that idea. -- Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:43:23 +0200 Help on that is desperately needed. Either by working on creating/packaging/testing/distributing unstripped ffmpeg binary packages or by asking the ftpteam to make an official statement if such a package would be accepted in debian/non-free. I was told that there was an ftpteam internal discussion about that, and even a vote about exactly this topic, but I was not told the result of that vote. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]