On Monday 15 December 2008 10:00:12 Jean-Michel Pour? wrote: > I don't see many distributions providing efforts to package Kdenlive > cleanly, with all latest MLT and ffmpeg codecs, appart for Marillat > Debian-multimedia and Gentoo exceptions.
i just want to say that freebsd is getting kdenlive in the near future, i'm just waiting for the ffmpeg port to be patched to submit the mlt's and kdenlive > Of course I did not test all packages, so I might be wrong. Maybe some > packagers do not simply have the skills to compile Kdenlive cleanly. And > we cannot expect end-users to be able to compile ffmpeg, MLT and > Kdenlive with full options turned-on. reading italian feeds, it doesn't seem a problem of skills, actually it's easy to compile kdenlive and it's dependencies... the problem is it is LONG, and people is scared of starting the process. but when they start, they easily (but after some time) get to the end (i've started seeing duplicated ubuntu packages on the net...) > @dan: do you think it would be possible to build static version of MLT, > including all ffmpeg stuff staticly. i think the biggest problem is ffmpeg: no official releases. i'm not experienced with linux packages, but freebsd checks if a program is actually installed (it's libs, it's files), not its port, so if i, let's say, compile ffmpeg on my own, and then install mlt and kdenlive from the ports, dependencies are respected. now, ffmpeg can be easily compiled (and i know of lots of people already doing this): is it possible to create packages which checks for its libs, and not for its package (it's a rude hack, i know, but ffmpeg packaging is prehistoric...)? -- Alberto Villa <villa.alberto at gmail.com>
