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. Regards, Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
