Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:10:05PM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Nathan's email reminded me that there's also a dubious statement on the current ffmpeg page. The page references using qt-faststart to 'flatten' files by moving the index to the front of the file. Indeed, qt-faststart does

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:10:05 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com wrote: Nathan's email reminded me that there's also a dubious statement on the current ffmpeg page. The page references using qt-faststart to 'flatten' files by moving the index to the front of the file.

[blfs-dev] CUPS

2011-12-21 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, There seems to be a few issues with the cups page, I think the cups page needs a major rewrite. Firstly, it doesn't set --localstatedir=/var so make install creates /usr/var and several subdirectories. Secondly, the note about usb printers and the kernel config option CONFIG_USB_PRINTER

Re: [blfs-dev] CUPS

2011-12-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 12/21/2011 10:12 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: Hello, There seems to be a few issues with the cups page, I think the cups page needs a major rewrite. [snip] So, would anyone object if I did some rewriting of the cups page? If there are issues that need to be fixed/rewritten and you are

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: So what should we have on the page? At the moment it says: If you upload certain formats (quicktime, mov or mp4) to youtube, you need to flatten them (move the index to the front of the file) before uploading. FFmpeg contains a tool called

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg nitpick part ii (flattening)

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: As the person who mentioned flattening to Andy, all I can say is that common usage at youtube refers to it. And, despite the implication that it is only to improve the user experience, it is necessary to use it to successfully upload .mov files