The fact that you've run later versions in production is a good indicator that we can upgrade with confidence. If there are no objections to upgrading, will you be updating the 3rd party tool installation script in trunk Rüdiger?
Josh 2011/5/5 Rubén Pérez <[email protected]> > +1 to Rüdiger. I think that most of the problems we experienced in the past > with ffmpeg were caused because of our lack of experience at using it. I > think that the operations used in matterhorn are stable enough and they're > not likely to change between versions. > > > 2011/5/5 Ruediger Rolf <[email protected]> > >> I don't think that changing the ffmpeg version is something that need many >> QA work. For 1.0 and 1.1 we always used a ffmpeg trunk version (to get the >> -vf option). I have never encountered a problem with the ffmpeg version with >> matterhorn. >> >> By the way the recent versions have a better multi-threading support, just >> as an additional bonus for switching. >> >> Rüdiger >> >> Am 04.05.2011 18:33, schrieb Christopher Brooks: >> >> On Wed, 04 May 2011 17:37:51 +0200 >>> Ruediger Rolf<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> in our local 1.1 system we added a new workflow that creates videos >>>> in different qualities for different internet bandwith: >>>> http://video.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de:8080/engage/ui/watch.html?id=195 >>>> Change the "Quality" setting in the lower right to see the different >>>> qualities. >>>> >>>> We would like to too add this feature to the trunk too, but the >>>> creation of the different qualities requires a more recent ffmpeg >>>> version that supports the -vf (video filter) option. With -vf scale >>>> it is possible use different resolutions for each quality and still >>>> keep the correct aspect ratio. >>>> >>>> I added an additonal workflow definition that encodes the video in >>>> different qualities. If we keep our ffmpeg version these videos might >>>> get the wrong aspect ratio if they are not in 4:3 ratio. >>>> >>>> Any objections against an update of ffmpeg? >>>> >>>> Rüdiger >>>> >>>> I like the idea of upgrading to a newer version, but it means a big qa >>> effort..... >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> ________________________________________________ >> Rüdiger Rolf, M.A. >> Universität Osnabrück - Zentrum virtUOS >> Heger-Tor-Wall 12, 49069 Osnabrück >> Telefon: (0541) 969-6511 - Fax: (0541) 969-16511 >> E-Mail: [email protected] >> Internet: www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matterhorn mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >> >> >> To unsubscribe please email >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ >
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