On 4 May 2012 22:49, Manfred Tremmel <manf...@links2linux.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:36:26 schrieb Cristian Morales Vega: > >> transcode is dead, let's accept it. And I see 11 packages that require >> it. Either the dependencies are wrong or those packages should have >> already started to move to something else. Those packages are usually >> DVD related... we are in 2012!!! DVDs??? Who uses those any more? > > I maintaine some packages which are not updated for years, but used by > other packages, like transcode. What's the alternate to DVD's on linux? > Blue-Ray Disks with HDCP, AACS and BD+ or Video On Demand over Internet > with DRM and no Linux clients? DVDs are well supported and CSS is no > real problem, so it simply works with linux. > As long as I can manage transcode to build with new gcc versions and new > library versions from e.g. ffmpeg and no security problems are known, > why should we drop it?
My alternative to DVDs are just Matroska files. But if somebody actually cares for transcode there is no cause to drop it, sure. _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
